A straight-faced blog comment about the hotly anticipated new flavor of swill that Starbucks just started selling: "Went in early to my favorite Starbucks this morning so that I could get my favorite seat and people-watch. Settled in with my 9-minute old Pike Place Roast and a piece of the new chocolate marble loaf—a fabulos pairing, so good that I did not have any cream in my first cup, the sweetnes of the chocolate marble loaf brought out the chocolate tones in the Pike Place Roast."

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