Coffee Weapon

A Dunkin’ Donuts Employee Allegedly Added ‘Nasal Mucus’ To Cops’ Coffee. Nasty
He was promptly fired.

He has since been charged with two misdemeanor counts of attempted assault. His arraignment is slotted for Sept. 15 in district court.
Read more here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/christopher-hildreth-dunkin-donuts-mucos_n_915032.html?ir=Food

Don’t know why these happen but they do so here’s to more Styrofoam nonsense.

The boy who ate Styrofoam lived across the street from grandma.
Why are the little Styrofoam pieces called peanuts, he would ask?
I feel like my head is full of Styrofoam peanuts. grandma would say.
My grandma has these Styrofoam cups in her backseat?? Many, All double cupped n shit
I figured it was for that kid from across the street that eats Styrofoam.

He amused grandma. She would give him a task to make a crunchy Styrofoam brunch, colorful Styrofoam spheres, painted Styrofoam plates that sounds like a chimp when pressed together, strawberry Styrofoam shortcakes.

Using Upright Styrofoam wine shippers and U-shaped neck pillows, the kind filled with miniscule styrofoam balls. Topped with styrofoam boards and a styrofoam ball painted with a brush for the top.
eeeew styrofoam!! Grandma would say, crunchy! squeeky! Tasty! Only styrofoam lasts forever. This is my styrofoam reflection!

Many years later the boy who lived across the street from grandma would say he had won the battle with styrofoam! Why am I eatin ice cream off a styrofoam plate? he pondered on occasion. He had the exact same lunch as you!  Instant noodles in the styrofoam bowl makes me sad now. They taste like colourful diebetic styrofoam. I once ate a styrofoam easter chick maybe thinking it was candy. I may have been drunk. It had fake feathers. 12 years later, still no sign if it. its like a styrofoam taco with pasta inside!

I miss styrofoam fast food packaging. I miss grandma! Anyways, back to drinking my non-fair trade coffee in a styrofoam cup

A brokenhearted New Bedford substitute teacher laced his own coffee with a chemical used to remove graffiti because he was trying to get attention after breaking up with his girlfriend, police said.

In other news:

Leslie Buck, Designer of Iconic Coffee Cup, Dies at 87

It was for decades the most enduring piece of ephemera in New York City and is still among the most recognizable. Trim, blue and white, it fits neatly in the hand, sized so its contents can be downed in a New York minute. It is as vivid an emblem of the city as the Statue of Liberty, beloved of property masters who need to evoke Gotham at a glance in films and on television.

From the New York Times
It is, of course, the Anthora, the cardboard cup of Grecian design that has held New Yorkers’ coffee securely for nearly half a century. Introduced in the 1960s, the Anthora was long made by the hundreds of millions annually, nearly every cup destined for the New York area.

A pop-cultural totem, the Anthora has been enshrined in museums; its likeness has adorned tourist memorabilia like T-shirts and ceramic mugs. Like many once-celebrated artifacts, though, the cup may now be endangered, the victim of urban gentrification.  New York Times

Nonsense about styrofoam, lol
Went to Wally World and was carrying around a styrofoam sword. It got bad when I couldn’t get the bacon bits cuz the sword didnt allow me to.

o shield from the sufferance plauging the others. styrofoam plates, cafateria tables charity reeks of cheap wine and pity .

I just ordered a drink because the only option was a styrofoam cup, Hot side hot, cool side cool, and styrofoam destroys the environment.

Dessert can’t touch the brownies you made, and now she’s icing a styrofoam cake.You could test this doomsday omen by bringing in some frosting-covered styrofoam to see if they notice

Surprised, I see the styrofoam cup’s tremor in nothing but the wind. Hopefully, that is a waffle cone that you are craving. The others are like Styrofoam & only good w ice cream.

Question of the day: Styrofoam or Paper coffee cups? Almost had 2 go on top of the roof 2 get a styrofoam airplane. Pouring happiness into little styrofoam cups. The rest of my day will consist of paint and styrofoam.

Was I wrong to walk out of a local gas station because they only had Styrofoam cups for coffee?

Sophie Black wrote an amusing story down under in the Crikey bunker, “Do you love takeaway coffee more than the planet? Try this cup”

It’s about working at the crikey.com.au., which is just funny to begin with. At the crikey, Australian environmental commentators weigh in on policy, greenwashing and news. *Greenwashing? Possibly a term only an Australian enviromentalist would know. Anyways, It’s a review of a reusable plastic coffee cup, thud.. yes that will go over well at an envirmentalist blog.

She writes. “Sure, it’s not very cool to carry your own plastic cup to the counter, but at least it’s a pretty colour. And what’s cool compared to all those extra trees? Try telling the dead Amazon you’re too cool.” Sophie, carrying a tray full of designer coffee cups definatly cool, sorry thumbs up!

The Crikey team all chose a natty colour combination each and then dutifully selected their beverage of choice by penning in the corresponding coffee menu item on the rubber band that encircles the cup (two uses: ensures the cup is not too hot to hold and means you can personalise your cup.

Then they review the cup.
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/rooted/2009/07/13/do-you-love-takeaway-coffee-more-than-the-planet-try-this-cup/

*Greenwashing is a term used to describe the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly, such as by presenting cost cuts as reductions in use of resources. It is a deceptive use of green PR or green marketing. The term green sheen has similarly been used to describe organizations that attempt to show that they are adopting practices beneficial to the environment.

*Crikey – Used to express surprise
“Crikey, it was only a dollar last time I was here!”

Coffee served in a horrible paper cup – A person who complained about being served their coffee in a paper cup has had a complaint against Burger King upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. NZ

B Hay complained that a poster advertisement displayed a Burger King outlets and on company brochures was headed “Illy Premium Coffee”. Pictured below was an Illy branded china cup filled with coffee, sitting on a saucer.

Complainant Hay said the coffee ordered was served in a “horrible” paper cup.

“When I asked for a decent cup to drink the coffee from I was told that the picture was for advertising purposes only and I had to accept the coffee I had ordered in a paper cup. I feel this was grossly misleading advertising and would certainly not have contemplated even going into the outlet if I had known the coffee was not to be served in a porcelain cup and saucer as on their advertisements.”

The Complaints Board upheld the complaint, saying Burger King was in breach of Rule 2 of the Code of Ethics, relating to truthful presentation.

full story

I guess because just recently I had some kind of crumby Cornish flavored,  unnamed hotel coffee this article caught my interest.

American consumers use more than 16 billion disposable hot beverage paper cups each year. Unlike conventional cups, the ecotainerTM is lined with a coating made from corn, making the cups fully renewable and compostable, and helping to reduce some of the 25 million pounds of petroleum-based plastics needed each year to make conventional plastic-lined paper cups.
The introduction of the ecotainerTM to the more than 340 Hilton Garden Inn hotels now open will replace more than 6.5 million non-renewable styro-based cups used each year.

Full story here: Hotel Interactive

This caught my eye recently:

A crazy combination of events has led me to give up caffeine. Let’s call this Dopey Experiment No. 897.

She may have failed to mention she has a 3 pack a day cigarette habit. Read more about this here.

Denise Snodell: Coffee vs. sleep — the ZZZs have it

A Man stole five jars of coffee in an act of revenge at being accused of a theft he had not committed.
Lee Tobin’s temper got the better of him after he was accused with a theft from the One Stop shop, in the town’s Wynyard Road, magistrates heard.
Alan Davison, prosecuting at Hartlepool Magistrates Court, said: “Mr Tobin was suspected of acting suspiciously by a member of staff, who challenged him and asked to see his bag.
“He emptied it and the bag was searched, but nothing was found.
“But later, CCTV footage was reviewed and staff saw him leave with six
jars of coffee which he hadn’t paid for.”
In police interview, Tobin, 29, said he was “upset and frustrated at having been searched and in temper took the items as a form of revenge” and that he sold the coffee for £5, Mr Davison added.
Tobin, of Campbell Road, Hartlepool, admitted committing the theft on May 10.

Took off this past weekend to do some crafting at NJ Expo.

Had some coffee from a coffee machine and I have to say it wasn’t so bad. Better then the Wawa. I tried the hazelnut from there and it’s not so good. I think they go to heavy on the oils. I recommend sticking with the Regular blends from there. Folgers for breakfast, drink half before anyone gets some. No other coffee of note in Jersey this time, other then the coffee I had at the diner. Wait never offered a second cup, guess she figured it was 10:30 pm and I wouldn’t want another. Same thing at a Olive Garden but it was only 6 pm. I had to drink morning coffee when we got home.

On my trip back to my home praying that the ball joints hold out I stopped in the Saratoga area. I usually can get to maplefields but the truck won’t go as far. Anyway.. I needed gas and a bathroom break from the morning folgers. Many choices DD was right there off the thruway but no I tried what looked like a local convience/gas place. Gas up and went in to find a pretty good selection of coffee, they sold their share. Got a hazelnut 16 papercup, lotica cover, those are the kind that are ready for sipping. from Bengal Traders. Never tried them.. Gotta say coffe was hot and flavour was of good quality. Wait took my money and I was off. Without her saying a word to me.. Ok I will give this place a break as they had a gasoline situation in the second bay. Two girls were outside doing their best to sop it up. While the old guy that did the dirty deed waited inside. enough already.. til next time