Posted by TheShot on 10 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Consumer Trends
Just when we thought we needed to chill out a little more on the “coffee snob” factor, today’s New York Times blog includes a rant against the adulteration of coffee with any milk-based products: Coffee Pollutant No. 1: Cream - Times Topics - Topics - New York Times Blog. Calling cream or milk a “pollutant” [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Quality Issues, Starbucks
Sometimes it’s quite revealing to see America through foreign eyes. Case and point with a post today on an Italian blog that covers the subject of tourism in the good ol’ U.S. of A.: Guida USA - Info, foto e video. - » L’espresso “solo” da Starbucks. It gave me a chance to put my [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 28 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends
Yesterday’s Washington Post ran an article that pretty much embodied everything I despise about coffee: Coffee craze has everyone a bit nuts - Family Times - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper. It’s the focus on all the sizzle and none of the steak. Apparently, few of us want to hear about what it takes to [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 20 Jun 2006 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Coffee Health, Consumer Trends, Starbucks
As a follow up to a previous post from February, Upscale coffee drinks almost as caloric as Big Mac, SF’s CBS 5 news aired a story today noting that Starbucks’ Banana Mocha Frappuccino (who has time to pronounce all that?!) is even more caloric than a Big Mac: cbs5.com - Starbucks Under Fire For [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 06 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
Normally I detest the monotony of the rip-and-read medical research press release du jour that you see in the news every week. Depending on the week you tune in to this short-attention-span drivel, coffee will either give you heart attacks, improve your sex drive, prolong your life, make you impotent, or all of the above. [...]
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