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Will she launch into a Comedy Central–style roast session where she talks about my suitcase, my messy room, and the stack of dishes in the sink?

“It sounds frightfully close. Perhaps Fredrick has ordered a roast suckling for dinner in honor of our visit.”

The average price of a pound of ground roast coffee, for example, was $9.14 in September, according to the Labor Department, compared with $6.47 a year earlier.

There’s an obvious appeal: Smoked to a deep mahogany color using Old World techniques the company’s founder carried with him as an immigrant from Poland, this is a turkey you don’t have to roast.

Average retail prices for ground roast coffee are up more than 40% in the past year as of September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.