joe, markets cratered

That Coffee Taste Stale? It Could Be Nine Years Old
Value of premium arabica beans in storage is deteriorating, becoming more attractive to certain buyers that typically favor a lower quality variety
By
JULIE WERNAU
Updated June 14, 2016 6:41 p.m. ET
Before you take that next sip of coffee, consider this: Some of the beans in your cup of joe might have been picked during the Bush administration.


Arabica coffee that had been stored away as markets cratered in 2013 is now pouring out of warehouses, flooding the market with beans as old as nine years.






joe

Pronunciation: /dʒəʊ/

NOUN

North American informal

1An ordinary man:the average joe

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2[MASS NOUN] Coffee:a cup of joe

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Origin

Mid 19th century: pet form of the given name Joseph; compare with Joe Bloggs. sense 2arose in the 1940s.

crater 1 

Pronunciation: /ˈkreɪtə/ 

NOUN

1A large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite:the blast left a crater in the car parkGanymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has relatively few impact craters

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1.1A large hollow forming the mouth of a volcano:a great plume of gas and ash rises above the crater

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1.2A cavity or hole in any surface:using the rounded end of a rolling pin, make craters over the surface of the cake

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2A large bowl used in ancient Greece for mixing wine.

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VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

Form a crater in (the ground or a planet):pilots returned to the airfields to crater the runways(as adjective cratered) the heavily cratered areas of the moon

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Origin

Early 17th century (denoting the hollow forming the mouth of a volcano): via Latin from Greek kratēr 'mixing-bowl', from krasis 'mixture'.