Dan Minette wrote: > > > There was a legal limit of 190 degrees for the coffee,
Erik Reuter wrote: > There is a law about what temperature you can sell > coffee? Do you know what jurisdiction the law covers? > That sounds like a ridiculous law. People are always > complaining about lawyers, but part of the problem is > the people responsible for getting silly laws like that > passed. Wasn't the law written as a result of coffee spilling lawsuit? The reason that the coffee was so hot in the first place is because they used low-quality coffee and kept it around for too long, making for a foul tasting concoction, but the taste can be improved by heating it even more, hence the nearly boiling coffee which burned when it was spilled. I don't know if the coffee temperature law was written as a single issue law, but there definitely should be some temperature standard set forth by whatever agency that decides food preparation requirements. -- Matt
