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Kale and Kombucha

Could pass of as a limited liability partnership of accountants or bail bondsmen in Kampala, Uganda with Messrs Kale (a person of Maharashtrian origin and therefore more cerebral) and Kombucha (the muscle) teaming up in a good guy, bad guy routine.

But it is far from it.  Kale pronounced as Kail is a green leafy vegetable that has had a resurgence in the American health market as a super nutrient with loads of vitamins that might do someone good.  While a staple of some European diets in varying forms its recent entry as a superfood that can be consumed as a juice (assuming consumee has the right tools to juice a leaf) has drawn interest from a lot of yoga pant wearing crowd.

Add Kombucha to this.  This one is a mystery ingredient that is essentially a fermented goop arising from bacteria working on either tea or some form of seaweeds to produce what may be another cancer fighting wonder drug.

These two K's are now the new killer breed of bottled wonders that has America on the coast going bonkers.  I am not sure if folks in the Ozarks or the plains consume this stuff.  I know they do not drive Teslas.

Our government might be well served to ignore minting a trillion dollar coin to avert debt crises for now and invest in Kale and Kombucha futures as a means of jacking up another bubble in the commodities space.

Build large vaults that can freeze both ingreditents in volume rather than cooling data centers and we will be set.

I for one is going to now go and eat myself a large Haagen-Dazs - which is not a Dutch cake rather a popular brand of American made ice cream.
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