At 12:11 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:45:56AM -0500, Jay h wrote:
> The obsession with Starbucks really puzzles me. Starbucks is one of
> the few mass retailers that actually offers medical coverage to even
> part timers, it allows people to move from place to place and pick
It was kind of amusing to see DC cops protecting Starbucks yesterday;
no other business on Penn Ave SE was apparently deemed controversial
enough to require police presence.
Hey, police have values, and coffee is one of them.
Remember what coffee was like in most of the country before Starbucks?
Brown water, usually burned by sitting on a warmer for too long,
maybe enough caffeine to give you a buzz and enough acid to give you
an upset stomach, but certainly nothing resembling Coffee
except in a few oases like San Francisco and the Italian parts of NY/NJ.
Obviously this is a Commie Plot to control our Precious Bodily Fluids....
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Actually, to give credit where credit is due, and to put a
technology spin on things, a lot of the credit for improving US coffee
needs to go to Mr. Coffee, which got us to stop using percolators.
