Most travellers come to Portland for the beer, coffee and the laid back, artistic feel of the city.

BBC: Portland's urban adventures

Newspapers and coffee on the way to work, sandwiches and coffee at lunchtime and a beer or glass of wine on the way home at night.

BBC: Fergus Muirhead

And even then, genuine liking of bitter foods and drinks like kale, spinach, coffee and beer is gradually acquired through perseverance.

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Up to 40 million people in the region depend on the rainforest for survival, but Greenpeace found evidence of communities granting logging rights to companies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for gifts such as bags of salt, machetes, soap, coffee and beer or unfulfilled promises to build hospitals and schools.

CNN: Logging decimates African rainforest

Many co-working spaces offer free coffee, tea, and water, some offer free wine and beer around closing time, and others are stocked with free snacks.

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