Amid a “third wave” artisanal coffee boom in New York City, one cafe is “planning pop-up dinners where the dishes are paired with carefully selected coffee instead of wine.” Seems like that would keep you up late.
Florida Governor Rick Scott Can't Even Get a Cup of Coffee at a Local Starbucks
Today, footage surfaced of Florida governor Rick Scott, at a Starbucks in Gainesville, getting yelled at by a customer—local woman Cara Jennings, who is none to happy with the governor.
Starbucks: Shut Up and Make Coffee That Isn't Garbage
Inside today’s Wall Street Journal and New York Times are two different, full-page ads about essentially nothing draped in the rhetoric of social justice written by what I imagine was a third party branding agency at the behest of a CEO in order to promote the pseudo-advocacy of a sprawling American coffee chain. We…
Coffee Connoisseurship Silly
If you study this list of the 22 best coffee shops in NYC very closely—mapping out which neighborhoods have the highest concentrations of quality espresso, determining which brewing and roasting trends are on the rise—you will have wasted quite a bit of time.
Coffee Is the Elixir of Life, One Might Say
At last, there’s good news for those of us who live life in a series of coffee-breaks punctuated by periods of anxiety-filled withdrawal.
Gas Prices Rising, Coffee Prices Falling, Crazy World Still Spinning
If you had to sum up the year 2015 in one short sentence, the most accurate sentence would be, “Gasoline prices are UP, coffee prices are DOWN, but people will still drive their cars to Starbucks—so fuck America, the great Satan.”
Today in Product Review Spoilers: The $480 Pour Over Coffee Maker
“The Ratio Eight coffee machine makes delicious pour-over coffee,” Bloomberg reports. “But is it worth $480?”
Imagine Publishing This Sentence By Choice
“Although coifs and comestibles would not seem to have much in common, for a specific demographic, a cappuccino made with locally roasted, ethically grown beans is a natural accompaniment to high-caliber haircuts.”
Bad Wasteful Coffee Machine for Lazy People No Longer Popular
Sales of Keurig push-button coffee makers plunged last quarter, and the company’s stock price is plunging too. Is the “bad coffee at high prices plus wanton waste generation” formula breaking down? Or what?
When We All Relocate to Space, At Least We'll Have Espresso
At parties—which I go to a lot—the question is often raised: if you were to travel to space, what would be the one earthly thing you’d have trouble giving up? FRESH COFFEE, we all yell. Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian astronaut at the International Space Station, has proven that we will never have to go without…
Lovestruck Man Pleads Guilty to Masturbating Into His Co-Worker's Coffee
The Minnesota man who masturbated into the coffee cup of a co-worker he had a crush on pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure on Thursday.
There Should Be Two Lines at Bars: a Manifesto
As people waste our time debating how much to tip baristas (the correct amount: the small pile of coins they give back to you after your transaction is complete) and bartenders ($1 per drink), a second, much more significant beverage problem has once again been overlooked: the frustrating delays caused by people who…
Look at Kim Kardashian's Hot Ass Diarrhea
Well, it looks like Kim Kardashian's nude photos broke the internet after all.
Starbucks' newly liberalized dress code now reads: "Tattoos are allowed, but not on your face or throat. Treat tattoos as you treat speech — you can't swear, make hateful comments or lewd jokes in the workplace, neither can your tattoos." Piss coffee.
Man Says His McDonald's Coffee Came With a Free Dead Mouse
Ron Morais, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, doesn't like to waste a drop of his coffee. "I always take the lid off to get my last sip," he told the CBC. But he says that on a visit to McDonald's Monday, he found something in his cup that ruined his appetite for last bit of coffee there: A dead mouse.
The Correct Coffee Size Is Small
The wise editor/writer/parodist Jim Windolf published an arch and provocative but also entirely accurate tweet this morning:
Man Jerked Off Into Coworker's Coffee, Hoping She Would Notice Him
A Minnesota hardware store employee has been arrested after admitting that he repeatedly jerked off on a coworker's desk, ejaculating into her coffee, because he was attracted to her and wanted her to notice him.
Self-Important Higher-ups Now Charging Underlings for Networking Chats
The NY Post reported this week that money-hungry professionals are starting to reject advice meetings with under-experienced subordinates unless they're paid for their time. Keep in mind that these people likely had meetings with their superiors when they were starting out, and that advice was probably free.
Chicago Coffee Expert Crushed to Death by Falling Coffee Machine
Jim Karr, a Chicago coffee expert who worked at Intelligenstia Coffee and later founded a coffee start-up, died Saturday afternoon after the large coffee machine he was setting up fell on top of him.
