#s.o.e

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Highly recommended

[damez1979]

Call of Duty - WWII - S. O. E.

[userpeggycarter]

PEGGY WEEK 2024

day one — 20th century ⏳

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo 💖 overlay.

Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Carter began her long life of service as a code-breaker for Bletchley Park during World War II. She was then invited to be an agent for the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E) as one of their first female spies; later she joined the Strategic Scientific Reserve (S.S.R.) and remained there after the war. Carter fought alongside Captain America and his team and was considered an honorary Howling Commando by them, even leading the team after the Captain's "death". With the dissolution of the S.S.R. a few years after the war ended, Carter became a co-founder of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.). Eventually, she reached the status of director of said agency, a position she held until her retirement. She died peacefully in her sleep in 2016.

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[yourobedientserpent]

Alfred Through the Ages

Golden Age: Alfred Pennyworth Beagle is Bumbling Comedy Relief: "Oi'm Somethin' of an Amateur Sleuth Meself, Mawster Bruce."

Silver Age: Alfred Pennyworth is a Staid Reliable Manservant: "Commissioner Gordon is on the Batphone, sir."

Bronze Age: Alfred Pennyworth has Hidden Depths as a Former Badass S.O.E. Veteran who had an Illegitimate Daughter with a member of the French Resistance.

Iron Age: Alfred Pennyworth is Snarky Comedy Relief: "I Diapered Your Bottom, Master Bruce."

Postmodern Age: Alfred Pennyworth has Hidden Depths tapped for Black Comedy Relief: "I am a Snarky Retired Badass and You Will Never Find All the Guns I've Hidden Around The Manor, Master Bruce."

[fedzkun]

All Might,

I heard from a certain birdie that you opened application to become someone's dad and I am not surprised you would want to replace the perfectly good son you replaced because his quirk wasn't good enough.

So I am going to nominate your freaking son, in the hope that it sticks.

He is absolutely feral and not even the local Symbol of Evil can contain him so we are now counting on the Symbol of Peace.

He already has his own organization of vigilantes so he is ambitious and has a good sense of organization. I am pretty sure that if you put him in a hero school, he will become number 1 hero in two years tops. (The HPSC might not make it, though.)

He stole some shit from you? I am not sure about that part but I definitely heard Yami and his best friend talk about it at night, since those little demons keep invading my apartment.

You're probably already paying the child support so you could as well take him in.

If you enjoy a challenge, he is feral, he bites, and he will definitely fight back, so you're welcome. If you enjoy DEATH, I advise you to try taking his coffee from him.

If you don't care about challenge and you want a hypocritical story where you're one of those dads who do stuff for their children' own good and who want to rescue them from themselves, Yami has a pretty impressive caffeine addiction. Try doing something about that. But preferably outside of Japan. I live here, I don't want to watch it sink.

If you want the perfect successor (you probably do because I know your type), congratulations! Your son managed to acquire other quirks! We're not sure where because the only guy who can give quirks swears up and down that they are not coming from him. My... The annoyance in my life and I believe that Yami is stealing quirks from the Symbol of Evil in his sleep.

Honestly, the only reason why I am writing to you is because Yami ate the last chocolate donut and told me "What are you going to do about it?"

Here is where you can find him.

With no respect whatsoever,

Dabi, from Anyone

To Mr. Dabi,

I must insist that your accusations regarding my abandonment of a ‘perfectly good son’—apparently one named Yami—confuse me. To my knowledge, I haven’t become the father/honorary father of anyone who’ve went by such charming name.

In any case, the issue at hand seems to be that you’re attempting to get me to become this Yami’s father/honorary father. In which, as provided, my requirements for me to accept someone as my honorary adopted person are: (1) must be a Midoriya Izuku fan, OR (2) must at least agree that Midoriya Izuku is a true hero, OR (3) must be Midoriya Izuku. None of your statements illustrate what Yami’s opinions are on Midoriya Izuku, and the application would’ve been denied on principle for not complying with (1) or (2).

However, I admit that there is merit when it comes to its potential compliance with the third requisite, as some described characteristics reminds me strongly of Midoriya Izuku.

He is absolutely feral and not even the local Symbol of Evil can contain him so we are now counting on the Symbol of Peace. (My Midoriya Izuku is absolutely feral as well, and there was a time when not even my bentos could keep him with me. I’m alarmed, however, that the Yami has come into contact with the Symbol of Evil, though based on your wording, said Symbol of Evil seems to be no match for Yami. Midoriya Izuku, too, outmatches S.O.E.)

He already has his own organization of vigilantes so he is ambitious and has a good sense of organization. I am pretty sure that if you put him in a hero school, he will become number 1 hero in two years tops. (My Midoriya Izuku went vigilanting many times. And he is very organized, always filling his lovely notebooks. He himself is in a hero school and doing supremely well! I’m helping by always providing A+’s)

If you enjoy a challenge, he is feral, he bites, and he will definitely fight back, so you're welcome. If you enjoy DEATH, I advise you to try taking his coffee from him. (What a coincidence! Midoriya Izuku enjoys a challenge, is feral, bites, and will definitely fight back! Yami is proving to be quite someone worthy of being called a ‘Midoriya Izuku’ himself at this point. Furthermore, both of them share a deep obsession with coffees…)

The annoyance in my life and I believe that Yami is stealing quirks from the Symbol of Evil in his sleep. (While the initial anxious thought is that there exists another Quirk-stealing Quirk out there, it would be hypocritical of me to not think positively of someone attempting to use it as a fight method against the S.O.E. Indeed, my Young Midoriya has managed to steal that same Quirk in the final battle through the sheer might and power of his stockpiling one.)

In the foregoing, I’d like to inform you that Yami will pass requisite (3). I’m willing to bend the rules as he is a Midoriya Izuku to me.

Please know I will not tolerate coercion, and anyone is at liberty to apply or to refuse to be honorarily adopted by me. Should there be a change of heart for Yami, the application papers are ready.

[kramlabs]

“We are in a asymmetric protracted war against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and that’s not hyperbole”

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Reminder: "This is James Yeager for Tactical Response reminding you that your responsibility to be ready for the fight, never ends."

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[thisbluespirit]

Article from the Reading Evening Post 14th january 1988 p2, featuring an interview with Suzanna Hamilton about the TV series Wish Me Luck.

WARS make heroes. Throughout history most of them have been men. It has been the fate of women to weep and wait—and ultimately suffer all the more. Modern warfare and modern thinking changed all that. Suddenly it was possible for women to make an immense, brave and determining contribution to the war effort. Making bombs, sewing blankets, knitting socks was no longer all there was.

In the last war, the S.O.E. that rogue organisation committed to sabotage and subterfuge to confuse the enemy in Europe, recruited hundreds of women. Many of them were ordinary civilians called upon to fulfil extraordinary tasks with an extraordinary degree of courage. Their story has all too rarely been told - yet they remain the bravest, most selfless figures in a towering and complex tapestry of staunch patriotism and human valour. Now their light is being taken from behind the bushel of secrecy and allowed to shine forth in a revealing and moving drama series which gives some idea of the astonishing and unsung tasks they performed in the battle to free Europe from Nazism.

In 'Wish Me Luck' LWT have made a major drama series which deals with the exploits of just two 'typical' S.O.E. agents—different, very different from each other but examples of the wide-ranging types of women drawn into the battle for freedom.

One is Liz; mother of a young child whose husband is already serving overseas. She has a comfortable middle class background, a mother with a large house in the country, a cosy life-style - and a desperate need to do more to help the war effort.

Then there is Matty; half French and Jewish, half Cockney—she opens her mouth before engaging her brain, is fearless and frighteningly enthusiastic, bright as a button but conscious of not being out of 'the right drawer'.

Between them, these two young women epitomise the wide net which was thrown across the civilian population to draw in all those with some skill to use, some enthusiasm to cash in on.

Playing Matty is a young actress who has already gained an enviable reputation with her name alongside some of the acting greats such as Richard Burton and John Hurt—not to mention rock star-turned thespian, Sting.

Suzanna Hamilton first made a name for herself when she was cast in the film of the children's classic 'Swallows and Amazons'. Subsequently came Wildcats of St Trinians - and then Brimstone and Treacle, 1983, and Out of Africa."It was Out of Africa which got me noticed by the producers of 'Wish Me Luck', says tomboyish Suzanna. "But I still had to go and be seen by a panel of about seven people. They took so long making their minds up that it was about two months before I got another call - I'd almost forgotten about it."

Taking on the role of Matty though proved to be unforgettable as Suzannah immersed herself in the brave history of the women of the S.O.E. and spent long hours talking to the series advisor Yvonne Cormeau - who was a real life wartime agent. She is now 77, yet Yvonne retains a vitality which gives some indication of the qualities she - and the many other recruits - must have had for the almost impossible tasks they were called upon to do.

"She was wonderful on all the details," says Suzannah, "and I have also read a lot about the period, before then I only knew a tiny bit about the 40s."

As Matty, Suzannah goes through some of the horrendous hardships that real-life S.O.E. agents had to suffer—but she knew only too well that, at the end, she could escape to a warm bed and a cup of coffee.

"There is one scene later in the series where I am being tortured by being held under a shower with a towel wrapped round my head—it was a way of torturing people so if they didn't talk they slowly drowned. While doing it I kept thinking about the women that it really happened to and how they must have felt—and I was only under there for 30 seconds."

The other incident which really tested Suzannah's courage was a rooftop scene which entailed her being carried through a high window by co-star Jeremy Northam.

"I'm a bit like Matty, a bit of a tomboy, often getting things wrong," Suzannah confesses, "but I've got no head for heights. On the roof—at the end of Chatham Docks - I suddenly got that horrible feeling of vertigo. I thought I was going to faint. Jeremy told me to just keep looking straight at him and not to look down. But it's not something I would have liked to do twice!"

The series also stars Cambridge graduate Kate Buffery as Liz and Julian Glover as Colonel James Cadogan. Jane Asher plays a tough, committed S.O.E. intelligence officer whose job it is to help recruit and look after the special agents and Warren Clarke is German SS Officer Colonel Krieger.

[twisted-wonderland-but-gayer]

Dude America!Yuu is so fucked now, even without the whole LGBTQ+ S.O.E thing, with canada being on fire (again) the air quality in northern states like Minnesota (where I am) and NYC especially have PLUMMETED, and the thing last year with the whole 'selling the Arctic for fossil fuels' scare.

AGdnieHdbswpruxHcamka I’m sorry I'm just rambling about this I may or may not have a couple thousand words written about this mixed with the great seven parents 👀

I'm interested 👀

[tenderjock]

random agent carter s3 headcanons:

violet and daniel get married.

peggy is daniel's best maid. violet's eldest brother is her man of honor. jack, recently recovered from being fucking shot (by michael, ofc), makes a point of dancing with every woman in the room except peggy.

michael's middle name is edmund, because i think it'd be funny for both siblings to be m.e.c.

they track down michael at some point during the season. theres a heart wrenching scene that somewhat parallels "bucky?"/"who the hell is bucky?" between peggy and michael.

the season mostly takes place in the sf bay area, which is where violet's family is from, because fuck you thats why. it's my headcanon

peggy had endometriosis and had a hysterectomy a few years into being an undercover agent during the war. this headcanon fills a couple of personal headcanon holes of mine: first, the idea that the serum made steve infertile and how that impacted his relationship with peggy; second, addressing the fact that the mcu keeps making women forcibly sterile for the purposes of making their men sad; and three, because i liked her reaction to ana's injury and i think they should be able to grieve together. thanks

michael had to fake his own death to work for the s.o.e. in the war and he still cant tell their parents, but peggy isnt on speaking terms with them anymore either so thats fine. the file about m.carter was, obviously, about him but it was part of some sort of coverup where he took the fall for several innocent people - etc. he's vaguely apologetic about trying to kill peggy's friend, altho, in his defense, they spend most of their time arguing so he kind of thought he was doing her a favor.

jack starts calling michael "mikey" which drives him Up The Wall

at the wedding, jack and michael are the last two to bed, and get very drunk. when they wake up together, both are a little horrified but also - of course. of course.

[the-truest-sentence-i-know]

Fandom: Agent Carter

Pairing: Peggy Carter & Michael Carter

Rating: G

Summary: Before his death, Michael wrote Peggy a letter. After his death, Peggy writes in response.

Word Count: 1.2k

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written for @peggycarterbingo

prompt: Writing Format: Letters/Journals

October 13th, 1940 – Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales

Dear Margaret,

You do not know me, but I believe the attached letter is for you. It was sent to me amongst my late husband, Reggie’s, things. He was Lieutenant Reginald Reese, a friend of your brother, Michael.

I hope this letter brings you some comfort.

                Cordially,

                                Alys Reese

May 27th, 1940

Dear Peggy,

I don’t like the way we left things, so I’m writing to clarify what I meant.

You can obviously do whatever you want. Lord knows wild horses couldn’t stop you.

This is why I have always expected you to defy any and all who want you to conform to what they want. But I suppose that includes me as well.

But you have an opportunity to do something– I will not say ‘more,’ as marriage and motherhood are as honourable a pursuit as any other; I will simply say ‘different.’ If anything good is to come out of this war, it is that it gives you a chance to do something different. Something you would not have been able to do otherwise.

You are one of the strongest, most determined, and most clever people I know. Whatever you set your mind to, you will work at doggedly until you inevitably succeed. I just ask you to choose that goal carefully. Make sure it is truly what you want.

Whatever you choose, I’m sure I will be proud.

                Your loving brother,

                                                Michael

P.S. I am sorry about what I said about Fred. If you truly love him, then he is perfect for you. I suppose as an older brother no man will ever be good enough for you in my mind. But if he is who you want, then I won’t say anything more about it.

October 14th, 1940 – Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England

Dear Michael,

It feels a bit foolish to write a letter that I cannot send anywhere. But it also did not feel right to leave your letter unanswered.

I broke it off with Fred and joined the S.O.E. Not because of your letter, but because you went off and got yourself killed, and made me tear up my whole life at the roots. Probably for the better, but it’s still your fault. Mother is not pleased either, but I suppose that was inevitable.

Training is difficult but in a satisfying sort of way. The moves you taught me have come in handy. I’ve been sore in muscles I didn’t even know existed, but the other girls here are lovely. In regards to the men, it very much depends.

I suppose I should thank you for recommending me, but since I’m the one doing all the work to become a spy (a spy, that still sounds so absurd and fanciful), you’ll forgive me if I don’t.

They say the survival rate is 50% in the field, but for some reason that doesn’t worry me all that much. It almost feels right, to be finally putting myself on the line after you, after so many of our boys, have been doing so for so long already. I will not discount the work we did as codebreakers, because that was just as important, but you know me, I like to get my hands dirty.

And with any luck, I will soon. I suppose I don’t have to censor any details since I’ll never send this. There’s a German scientist held captive by the Nazis, a Dr Abraham Erskine. Our commanding officers are currently coming up with a plan to extract him. They haven’t yet told us who will be going, but I’m hopeful. At any rate, I’ll have an opportunity soon enough.

I almost don’t want to end this letter. This last communication with you. Which is a bit daft, I suppose.

I just wanted to tell you that I’m now doing something that I feel I was meant to do. It feels right. I hope I’ll make you proud.

                Love,

                                Peggy

April 10th, 1945 – Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England

Dear Michael,

I had intended that to be my last letter to you, but something has happened and I found that the only person I wanted to talk about it with was you.

Everyone keeps asking me to talk about it, that it will make me feel better. They just want me to cry and be the grieving girl who lost her man on the front. And I don’t want to be that.

Steve and I weren’t sweethearts. We both were more and less than that. I wasn’t waiting at home for his letters, I fought at his side. He centred me.

We never told each other ‘I love you,’ and that seems like a foolish thing to focus on, but it seems important. Because I know that if we did exchange letters, he would write it in every one. He would write the most earnest letters and I would read and reread them constantly like a lovesick schoolgirl.

The war is almost won now and neither he nor you will see it. And without you, I never would have met him. Without your death, I never would have met him. And I hate you for that a bit because I didn’t need this. I didn’t need to fall in love during a bloody war. I was content and fulfilled with my work. I didn’t need someone coming into my life, leaving a torn gaping hole when he died – an American no less.

So I work. They’ve finally let me in the field again, thank God. I work and I plan and I shoot up Nazis, and so long as I keep moving, I don’t have to think about all of this.

I know Howard worries (Oh, yes, I didn’t mention that I have become something like best friends with Howard Stark now. Yes, he is insufferable, but he means well). He thinks I’m not taking care of myself, which is rich coming from him.

I can worry about myself when the war is done. Maybe I’ll write to you again when it is.

                Love,

                                Peggy

May 9th, 1945 – London, England

Dear Michael,

The war has been won. At least all of this wasn’t for nothing.

                Love,

                                Peggy

March 17th, 1946 – New York City

Dear Michael,

I suppose I owe you one last letter to tell you that I am doing okay.

I live in New York now. Steve was not the reason I came here, but I think he is part of the reason I’ve stayed. I can see why he loved this city. It’s beginning to feel like home.

I work for the Strategic Scientific Reserve, and I enjoy it. I have coworkers who I have made respect me, and I have friends I care about.

Mother still worries about me. I haven’t told her exactly what I do, but I think she suspects. She spotted the scar on my shoulder last summer. She didn’t ask about it. I think she would rather not know the details.

I miss you. I wish I could show you the city and have you meet my friends. I think you’d like them.

This is the last time I will write to you, so, goodbye Michael.

                Your loving sister,

                                                Peggy

[the-gentleman-adventurer]

For many, life is like an online role-playing game where a single mistake could be catastrophic. The major difference is that in real life, there's no respawning—it's a permanent game over! Don't think it couldn't happen to you? You could find yourself in an emergency situation at any time from war, family breakdown, or financial hardship. In the Red Queen's Race to earn enough just to survive, you might find yourself just three bad months away from living on the streets.

If this is the scenario you find yourself in, life is not an adventure, it's a jungle. A jungle where your goal is to stay alive and find a way out, a way home, a path to safety. In cases like this you don't need the advise of an adventurer, you need to listen to a survivor.

Colonel Freddie Spencer, DSO & Bar, ED was both! Before World War II he was an Arctic explorer and Himalayan mountaineer, a diplomat and a teacher. His exploits read like they were taken straight out of an adventure novel. As war approached he joined the Seaforth Highlanders and his talents in the Arctic were tapped for a number of still-born schemes until eventually he ended up in Singapore as the head of the Special Training School 101 for S.O.E., mere months before it's fall to the Japanese. For the next three years he survived behind enemy lines in Malaya and in 1948 he produced a seminal work on survival based on those years. Interestingly he talks about a mindset that can be applied to any "hostile" environment.

"My experience is that the length of life of the British private soldier accidentally left behind in the Malayan jungle was only a few months, while the average N.C.O., being more intelligent, might last a year or even longer. To them the jungle seemed predominantly hostile, being full of man-eating tigers, deadly fevers, venomous snakes and scorpions, natives with poisoned darts, and a host of half-imagined nameless terrors. They were unable to adapt themselves to a new way of life and a diet of rice and vegetables; in this green hell they expected to be dead within a few weeks - and as a rule they were. The other school of thought, that the jungle teems with wild animals, fowls, and fish which are simply there for the taking, and that luscious tropical fruits - paw-paw, yams, bread-fruit and all that, drop from the trees, is equally misleading. The truth is that the jungle is neutral. It provides any amount of fresh water, and unlimited cover for friend as well as foe - an armed neutrality, if you like, but neutrality nevertheless. It is the attitude of mind that determines whether you go under or survive. 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' The jungle itself is neutral."

When your world is a jungle remember, the jungle is neutral! View your environment as neither good nor bad, expect nothing and accept what comes, both good and bad. Beware the dangers but learn to survive on what is available, Spencer for example could not have survived without the support of the Communist Chinese guerillas.

“The things which we actually need are free for all, or else cheap; nature craves only bread and water. No one is poor according to this standard; when a man has limited his desires within these bounds, he can challenge the happiness of Jove himself.” Seneca quoting Epicurus

Your reality, your 'jungle', might be a harsh one, no one is trying to downplay your problem. The point here is to encourage you to fix the things you can fix and survive the things you can't. This agrees with Taoist metaphysics, where distinctions between good and bad, along with other black-and-white moral judgments, are perceptual rather than real.

There are some things that cannot be beaten and will never go away: lifelong, chronic or terminal illness, intergenerational poverty, old age... With these you can only play the long game, you can survive them as long as you keep putting one foot in front of the other on your escape route.

Freddie Spencer survived the jungle, the war, and had a productive and respected career as an educator. However in 1971 he took his own life due to chronic war injuries. If you or anyone you know has similar problems, help them survive!

[researching-in-the-rain]

sir edwin hardy amies

Sir Edwin Hardy Amies occupies a special place in the long and entangled history of espionage and fashion. Over his long career, he was dressmaker to the Queen, Savile Row stalwart, costume designer for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and creator of both the 1972 Olympic and 1966 World Cup uniforms. As an author, he wrote books on fashion as well as two delightful memoirs. That he was also a lieutenant colonel in the S.O.E. and said to be involved in an operation known as Ratweek—the coordinated killing of Nazi officials and collaborators in occupied countries—is a part of his story that remains largely overlooked even today.

[outta-my-tree]

Lieutenant Roméo Sabourin (January 1, 1923 – September 14, 1944) was a Canadian soldier and spy during World War II.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Sabourin joined the Canadian Army, serving in the Canadian Intelligence Corps. Because of his training and fluency in both the French and the English languages, he was recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

From England, he was parachuted into occupied France where he worked with the French Resistance, but was captured by the Gestapo with members of the Robert Benoist group and shipped to Buchenwald concentration camp on August 27, 1944.

Twenty-one-year-old Roméo Sabourin was executed by the Nazis at Buchenwald on September 14, 1944, along with two other Canadian SOE agents, Frank Pickersgill and John Kenneth Macalister. (Wikipedia)

Above:: l-r, Frank Pickersgill, Romeo Sabourin and John Kenneth Macalister

Above: Official Canadian army overseas casualty notification to Lieutenant Sabourin’s mother, Mme. Flore Sabourin, née Desjardins.

Above: Letter to Mme. Sabourin from Colonel l. J. Buckmaster expressing sympathy and explaining some of the circumstances of Romeo Sabourin’s death.

Lieutenant Sabourin is honored on the Groesbeek Memorial in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands. As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Lieutenant Sabourin is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département. (Link to Valençay SOE Memorial Wikipedia page at bottom)

Above left: Record of Lieutenant Sabourin’s memory at the Groesbeek Memorial, and (above right) his name inscribed, along with that of his compatriot, Frank Pickersgill.

Above: The Groesbeek Memorial in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

Above: S.O.E. Monument, London, England, a bronze bust dedicated to the Special Operations Executive (SOE), commemorating the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis, located on the south bank of the Thames, London.

Above: Plaque at Tempsford Airfield Gibraltar Farm commemorating those who flew from the secret airfield into Europe to aid in the Resistance against the Nazis. (2.3 miles northeast of Sandy, Bedfordshire, England)

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TOMORO COFFEE Dukung Petani Lokal dan Bawa Kopi Indonesia Mendunia melalui Master S.O.E. Series

BALIPORTALNEWS.COM, JAKARTA - TOMORO COFFEE, merek rantai kopi dengan pertumbuhan tercepat di Indonesia, menghadirkan Master S.O.E. Series dengan biji kopi Bali Kintamani dari Indonesia. TOMORO COFFEE telah menyediakan 20 ton biji kopi Bali Kintamani untuk selanjutnya disajikan dalam Master S.O.E. Series ke seluruh gerai TOMORO COFFEE. Saat ini ,TOMORO COFFEE juga ingin memberikan kopi terbaik yang dapat dirasakan oleh setiap masyarakat dari berbagai negara. Peluncuran produk ini merupakan salah satu bentuk komitmen TOMORO COFFEE untuk mendukung petani lokal Indonesia dan memperkenalkan biji kopi Indonesia dengan cita rasa kelas dunia yang khas. Product Manager TOMORO COFFEE, Hadi Suwardi mengatakan, Master S.O.E. Series dengan biji kopi Karana Bali Kintamani merupakan lanjutan dari kesuksesan Master S.O.E. Series yang sebelumnya menggunakan biji kopi Shakiso Guji dari Ethiopia. Seri pertama ini mendapatkan antusiasme luar biasa dari para pecinta kopi, bahkan berhasil terjual 6 cangkir setiap menit di bulan pertama dan biji kopinya habis hanya dalam waktu 1,5 bulan saja. “Kali ini, kami menggunakan biji kopi dari Indonesia untuk mewujudkan banyaknya permintaan dari para TOMMUNITY (sebutan untuk pelanggan setia TOMORO COFFEE) yang ingin mengeksplorasi rasa dari biji kopi Indonesia, sekaligus mendukung petani lokal dan memajukan industri kopi Indonesia. Di sisi lain, TOMORO percaya bahwa biji kopi Indonesia yang ditanam oleh petani lokal juga memiliki cita rasa yang bagus, sehingga sudah saatnya untuk diperkenalkan ke seluruh dunia,” ungkap Hadi. Hadi berharap dengan adanya Master S.O.E. Series dengan biji kopi Karana Bali Kintamani kali ini, pihaknya dapat memperkenalkan cita rasa biji kopi Indonesia kepada pecinta kopi di seluruh Indonesia, bahkan dunia. “Sampai sekarang, gerai TOMORO telah tersedia di negara China, serta dalam tahun ini, kami juga akan membuka gerai di negara lain seperti Filipina dan Singapura untuk memperkenalkan cita rasa biji kopi Bali Kintamani yang enak dan memiliki profil rasa yang unik, serta mewakili warisan Indonesia,” tambah Hadi. Lebih lanjut Hadi menjelaskan, pihaknya menerima banyak masukan dari TOMMUNITY untuk menggunakan biji kopi dari Indonesia. “Kami sangat menghargai masukan dari TOMMUNITY, sehingga hari ini, 18 Januari 2024 dengan bangga kami mempersembahkan Master S.O.E. Series dengan biji kopi dari Indonesia yaitu Karana Bali Kintamani ke seluruh pulau Jawa dan pada 24 Januari 2024 akan kami distribusikan ke seluruh gerai kami di Indonesia. Kehadiran Master S.O.E. Series dengan biji kopi Bali Kintamani ini sekaligus menunjukkan komitmen dan upaya kami dalam mendengarkan kebutuhan dan kesukaan untuk menciptakan pengalaman minum kopi yang mewakili selera TOMMUNITY yang beragam,” ucap Hadi.

TOMORO COFFEE Dukung Petani Lokal dan Bawa Kopi Indonesia Mendunia melalui Master S.O.E. Series. Sumber Foto : Istimewa “Biji kopi dari dataran tinggi di sekitar pegunungan area Kintamani bukan hanya tentang rasa, tetapi juga tentang tradisi, sejarah, potensi alam, proses budidaya, dan kehidupan spiritual yang sudah ada sejak 200 tahun yang lalu. Kombinasi semua inilah yang membuat kami ingin memperkenalkan kopi Kintamani ke dunia,” lanjut Hadi. Masih sama seperti seri sebelumnya, Master S.O.E. Series dengan biji kopi Karana Bali Kintamani merupakan hasil kolaborasi World Barista Champion 2017 – Dale Harris dan Indonesia Barista Champion 2018 – Muhammad Aga. Kedua barista ini memastikan kualitas Master S.O.E. Series mulai dari pemilihan biji kopi hingga siap dikonsumsi oleh pelanggan. Pemilihan biji kopi Karana Bali Kintamani ini karena ditanam di ketinggian 1.100 - 1.500 mdpl dengan memanfaatkan tanah vulkanik dan iklim yang berubah-ubah. Cuaca yang cerah dan hujan bergantian memberikan sinar matahari yang cukup untuk pertumbuhan tanaman. Kombinasi tanah dan cuaca yang ideal ini menghasilkan kopi yang berkualitas tinggi. Bahkan Master S.O.E. Series dengan biji kopi Bali Kintamani ini berhasil mendapatkan skor 83 dalam tes skor cupping yang artinya specialty coffee yang enak. TOMORO COFFEE Master & Indonesia Barista Champion 2018, Muhammad Aga menjelaskan, dedikasinya dalam mengejar kualitas terbaik terlihat jelas dari proses cupping terus menerus dan pendekatan yang akurat pada proses roasting. “Dengan profil medium espresso roast, kami berupaya mengoptimalkan keunikan biji kopi sambil memadukan rasanya secara harmonis. Kami memilih biji kopi dari Karana Bali Kintamani kali ini, karena memiliki profil rasa yang khas dan sesuai dengan selera masyarakat Indonesia yaitu kombinasi tingkat keasaman dan manis, seperti tebu, kismis manis, dan wafer cokelat. Selain itu, waktu panennya adalah Mei – Agustus 2023 sehingga menjadikannya kopi terbaik untuk dinikmati sekarang ini,” ujarnya. Master S.O.E. Series dengan biji kopi Karana Bali Kintamani telah tersedia di seluruh gerai TOMORO COFFEE dengan harga mulai dari Rp22.000. Disajikan dalam kemasan “Black Cup” yang memiliki teknologi anti tumpah dengan tiga pilihan varian rasa yang masih sama dengan seri sebelumnya yaitu Caffé Americano, Caffé Latte, serta Breve Latte yang merupakan campuran susu dengan krim sehingga lebih creamy.(*/bpn) Read the full article

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Γεώργιος Σαϊνόβιτς-Ιβάνοφ: Ένας ήρωας σαμποτέρ, «Ζήτω η Ελλάς! Ζήτω η Πολωνία!»

Γεώργιος Σαϊνόβιτς-Ιβάνοφ: Ένας ήρωας σαμποτέρ, «Ζήτω η Ελλάς! Ζήτω η Πολωνία!»

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