It is difficult to feel sorry for Starbucks or any food conglomerate, but these days anything is possible.
For example, the coffee giant has been sued by some idiot who says he got second-degree burns from tea that was too hot.
Good grief; it’s a hot beverage. If you chug it like a sody pop or spill it on your wee-wee, pain will result.
Again, what part of “hot” do you not understand?
This pathetic plaintiff says the tea was "unreasonably hot, in containers which were not safe."
Pal, unless it was boiling over like a Frankenstein experiment, it wasn’t too hot. It was simply hot tea.
And unless the container was a leaky plastic bag, that wasn’t the problem either.
Starbucks ought to come up with a new motto: "If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of our kitchen."
Meanwhile, in other warm beverage news, a trendy New York shop has come up with the world’s first ... $12 cup of coffee.
This, I believe, is too much.
Jeez, for 12 bucks you could buy a sack of coffee beans and maybe a plot of ground to plant 'em in!
The shop attempts to defend this petty larceny by describing the coffee as a "very clean, sweet, complex cup with tropical fruit notes of pineapple, kiwi and key lime."
Puh-lease! Is is a cup of coffee or a bowl of fruit? Even New Yorkers should know the difference!
If I bought a cup of coffee and someone charged me 12 George Washingtons, I’d be tempted to spill it on myself and call a lawyer.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Hot tea, cold cash
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I hope the judge will do justice and disbar the lawyer and require the teasipper to pay for it all.
In your next excursion to Athens, Greece, check out the knock- your- extraneous- parts- into the- dirt coffee served with a partially melted spoon and a cardiac monitor. And don't plan on swigging it down to the bottom of the tiny cup, that's where the grounds sit, waiting, waiting for sucker tourists to slurp down. All the locals love watching tourists eyeballs exploding.
And don't even get me started on the alchohol. And the coffee is about 30 smackers per cup, American.Yowzer.
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