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June 22, 2012

Important Coffee News
— LauraW

For those of you who can still afford what my household now calls 'outside coffee,' Starbucks has announced their intention to stop using a red dye made out of crushed bugs in their products.

No response on whether or not they will take the burnt fecal pellets out of the coffee, though.

Posted by: LauraW at 07:30 AM | Comments (172)
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1 (o)_(o)

Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 07:32 AM (M2JTb)

2 Will they continue to put Spanish Fly in their mint iced tea?

Posted by: fluffy at June 22, 2012 07:33 AM (z9HTb)

3 ((o)_(o))

Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 07:33 AM (M2JTb)

4 Starbucks is nasty.

Posted by: toby928© Person of Pallor at June 22, 2012 07:33 AM (QupBk)

Crushed bugs was like the best thing on the menu man.

Everything else is burnt.

Posted by: Entropy at June 22, 2012 07:33 AM (TULs6)

6 ((o)_(o)) Jiggling?

Posted by: toby928© Person of Pallor at June 22, 2012 07:34 AM (QupBk)

7 (o)_(o)

Instamatic film cartridge viewed from the side?

Posted by: Waterhouse at June 22, 2012 07:34 AM (Brjev)

8 Why do coffee beans smell so terrible, every time I walk through Starbucks it smells like butt crack.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 22, 2012 07:34 AM (tKFT6)

9 Damn ... luvs me some bugs!

Posted by: Honey Badger Drinker of Mead at June 22, 2012 07:34 AM (GvYeG)

10 This is an outrage! How dare they!? oh, I thought you said crushed *dogs*. Carry on.

Posted by: Barack Obama at June 22, 2012 07:34 AM (XBxRP)

11 Born on Community Coffee, will die by Community Coffee.

Posted by: cajun carrot at June 22, 2012 07:35 AM (UZQM8)

12 drat.......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at June 22, 2012 07:35 AM (d9PlV)

13 This is bullshit!

I just signed Lizzy Warren's birthday card 3 times and I still don't get an ad.

Posted by: fluffy at June 22, 2012 07:35 AM (z9HTb)

Why do coffee beans smell so terrible, every time I walk through Starbucks it smells like butt crack.

Try the coffee aisle in the grocery store, that coffee smells like coffee instead.

Posted by: Entropy at June 22, 2012 07:35 AM (TULs6)

15 They serve red-tinted products?

Posted by: RioBravo at June 22, 2012 07:35 AM (eEfYn)

Wonder if Starbucks serves Mead?

Posted by: Honey Badger Drinker of Mead at June 22, 2012 07:35 AM (GvYeG)

17 Is it possible to burn mead and then cover it with crushed bugs?

Posted by: Entropy at June 22, 2012 07:36 AM (TULs6)

18 Meh.

*sips Starbucks*

*Contemplates eating tasty pig belly*

Posted by: Andy at June 22, 2012 07:36 AM (5Rurq)

19 Worried about a little bug shell extract? Then you REALLY don't want to know about stuff like sausage.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at June 22, 2012 07:37 AM (44/AS)

20 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 07:37 AM (8y9MW)

21 >> I just signed Lizzy Warren's birthday card 3 times and I still don't get an ad.

Be sure to check out that link in the sidebar.

Posted by: Andy at June 22, 2012 07:37 AM (5Rurq)

22 Dunkin Donuts coffee is the real American Coffee. No bugs, no "feces", no sandals or hippy clothing and half the price of Starbucks.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at June 22, 2012 07:37 AM (ndlFj)

23 Seriously Dude, Elizabeth Warren ads...is this a joke???!!!??

Posted by: Captain FAPtastical at June 22, 2012 07:37 AM (/pd0C)

24 So where's the class action lawsuit from the vegans who patronize Starbuck's?

Posted by: RickZ at June 22, 2012 07:37 AM (26i79)

25 Important Movie News:

Die Hard 5 will apparently feature an Mi-24 Hind.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Hungary---Air/Mil-Mi-24P/2118596/M/

Posted by: Waterhouse at June 22, 2012 07:38 AM (Brjev)

26 Wonder if Starbucks serves Mead? It's made from Bee Poop!

Posted by: Herger the Joyous at June 22, 2012 07:38 AM (QupBk)

27 my God, it's full of bugs !!!!!

Posted by: Kay in Maine at June 22, 2012 07:38 AM (Dll6b)

28 Every company that uses "all organic" or "all natural" materials uses crushed bugs for dyes. It's been going on for a long time, and it doesn't hurt you.

I avoid Starbucks because I have no desire to pay $4.50 for what I can get for a third of the price elsewhere.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 22, 2012 07:38 AM (8y9MW)

29 Always buy whole beans.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 22, 2012 07:39 AM (dZ756)

30 I pretty much ended my outside coffee days after college. $6 for the smallest drink option is for congresspeople.

Posted by: Infidelswine at June 22, 2012 07:39 AM (GAKWa)

31 BUGS!!!!!

Posted by: A. Sullivan at June 22, 2012 07:39 AM (QupBk)

32 Looks over at my Starbucks caffe mocha Thanks Laura A whole bunch

Posted by: navycopjoe at June 22, 2012 07:39 AM (eYiNi)

33 Not many things smell better than coffee. Not many things taste worse than Starbuck's burn-o-rama.

Posted by: ddaz at June 22, 2012 07:40 AM (UpdGw)

34 I'll have a venti half-caf, half-skim, quarter-goat's milk, quarter-soy latte with two shots of scorpion venom- half-Arizonan, half-Saharan extra crushed bugs, extra fecal pellets whipped cream top with bee larvae.

Posted by: My favorite order at Starbuck's at June 22, 2012 07:40 AM (G9qZk)

35 the Russian word for M-24 Hind is "slow turtle-like target"

wanna see my exploding arrows ??

Posted by: sweaty Sly Stallone at June 22, 2012 07:40 AM (Dll6b)

36 Their coffee will still suck.

Posted by: Roy at June 22, 2012 07:40 AM (VndSC)

No response on whether or not they will take the burnt fecal pellets out of the coffee, though.

I'm just trying to make a living, honey.

Posted by: Indonesian Coffee Shitting Civet at June 22, 2012 07:40 AM (M8oFW)

38 Why do coffee beans smell so terrible, every time I walk through Starbucks it smells like butt crack.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand

I do not want to know how you can identify that particular smell.

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:40 AM (iYbLN)

39 Are they going to make their coffee taste good? Are they going to stop correcting me, "venti"? Don't women know the bugs are used in their lipstick? Enjoy your Stabucks coffee, ladies

Posted by: Crispian at June 22, 2012 07:40 AM (uBMtY)

40 McDonalds has better coffee than Starbucks.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 22, 2012 07:40 AM (C8mVl)

41 As a 20+ year shareholder is SBUX stock, let me just say there are some high profit margins on crushed bugs.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at June 22, 2012 07:41 AM (C2//T)

42 24 Thats kindof what caused this. The hippies put pressure on starbucks for killing bugs to get dye for their drinks and those fragile uppity manhattanesques caved.

Posted by: Infidelswine at June 22, 2012 07:41 AM (GAKWa)

43 I just signed Lizzy Warren's birthday card 3 times and I still don't get an ad.
Posted by: fluffy

I signed the card as Sacajawea Goldstein from Boston.

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:41 AM (iYbLN)

LauraW: ..."No response on whether or not they will take the burnt fecal pellets out of the coffee, though."

But...but...fecal pellets are all natural!

That term, 'fecal pellets'.....such a polite way of saying 'doo doo'.

Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 07:41 AM (M2JTb)

45 No response on whether or not they will take the burnt fecal pellets out of the coffee, though.

Meeooowwww...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at June 22, 2012 07:42 AM (PMGbu)

Black Coffee Roasting - Missoula, Mt.

Vivace (for Espresso) in Seattle

Posted by: garrett at June 22, 2012 07:42 AM (M8oFW)

47 Worried about a little bug shell extract? Then you REALLY don't want to know about stuff like sausage.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur

Doesn't haggis get any love?

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:43 AM (iYbLN)

48 Jameson Irish Whiskey, for the suspect in your coffee.

Posted by: Clemenza at June 22, 2012 07:43 AM (fCSfn)

49 Starbucks coffee is alright. I know everybody says its awful, but my experience is people who say starbucks is shyte, also say they make a great cup of coffee themselves. Lemme tell ya, your coffee tastes like shyte. I'll take a sip, then when I leave their house I'll stop at starbucks to wash the taste out of my mouth.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2012 07:43 AM (4xNyt)

50 ooks over at my Starbucks caffe mocha
Thanks Laura
A whole bunch Posted by: navycopjoe

Commie.

BTW the Cubbies suck!

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:44 AM (iYbLN)

51 Carmine dye has been used for since antiquity. It's not the bugs per se that are crushed, only their molted shells.

Still rather gross I suppose.

Posted by: Jason at June 22, 2012 07:44 AM (6VB4r)

52 We could also talk about bacon bits - not made out of bacon.

Posted by: Crispian at June 22, 2012 07:44 AM (uBMtY)

butt crack?

Posted by: Honey Badger Drinker of Mead at June 22, 2012 07:44 AM (GvYeG)

54 For the record give me coffee from one of those old school 5lb cans the military used to use any day!!

Posted by: navycopjoe at June 22, 2012 07:45 AM (eYiNi)

Die Hard 5 will apparently feature ~~an Mi-24 Hind.~~ Bruce Willis shooting things.

See how I focus on the important part.

I saw a trailer for Taken 2 and I must say I do approve of the whole Liam Neeson getting Maggie Grace to shoot people shift in the plot. Oh and speaking of shooting things, I was watching a completely and totally and utterly legal in every way copy of The Raid: Redemption last night and it struck me again how ruthless both the cops and the bad guys are. None of the cops seem to have any problem with just killing the bad guys, barehanded if necessary.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 22, 2012 07:45 AM (VtjlW)

56 one of those coffees is made from coffee beans that some monkey has shat out it's ass....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at June 22, 2012 07:45 AM (d9PlV)

57 So I guess the 'cruelty-free' douchebags can feel good about their overpriced coffee?

Posted by: nickless at June 22, 2012 07:45 AM (MMC8r)

58 I signed the card as Sacajawea Goldstein from Boston.

Did one as Richard Hertz from Holden.

Another using @ harvard . edu

Posted by: fluffy at June 22, 2012 07:46 AM (z9HTb)

59 43 - Are you related to Jeff???

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2012 07:46 AM (4xNyt)

60 40 McDonalds has better coffee than Starbucks. Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 22, 2012 11:40 AM (C8mVl) Preach the word Sister, Preach the word. Extra $2 in my pocket too.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 22, 2012 07:46 AM (9TTOe)

61 where's the "morning coffee crew" troll to school us on coffee?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at June 22, 2012 07:46 AM (d9PlV)

62 Jameson Irish Whiskey, for the suspect in your coffee.
Posted by: Clemenza

Now there is a man I want to know.

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:46 AM (iYbLN)

63 They used the red bug shells because of the anti-chemical people. But the red bug shells offend the vegans. Let alone that any normals might object.

Posted by: blaster at June 22, 2012 07:47 AM (7vSU0)

64 I bet it has more to do with cost than with anything 'green'.

As for the "burnt fecal pellets", I couldn't agree more.Their standard cuppa joe is some of the worst I've had. I do, however, love their apple cider and caramel macchiatto.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 22, 2012 07:47 AM (piMMO)

65 22--" Dunkin Donuts coffee is the real American Coffee" Yes! That's good stuff, typical of the best (IMO) American brews, which is to say a Brazilian-Colombian blend. You have to get enough of that Colombian stuff in there, really you do.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 22, 2012 07:47 AM (C8mVl)

66 At the WaWas, you can order a damn fine coffee using one of those new fangled ordering thingamajigs.

Posted by: President Elect Mittens at June 22, 2012 07:47 AM (GKgjv)

67 When some bean head decided what you need is Pikes blend instead of Verona (the best of the buck), then you see why we have a Rube and a Herring on the Republican Ticket.

Posted by: Clemenza at June 22, 2012 07:48 AM (fCSfn)

68 43 -

Are you related to Jeff??? Posted by: BurtTC

LOL

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:48 AM (iYbLN)

69 I have never been inside a Starbucks, even while book shopping at Barns and Nobles. The idea of paying more than 25 cents for a cup of coffee is anathema to me (used to be 10 cents but I allow for inflation).

I did buy a bag of Starbucks coffee though just to try it out. It sucked donkey dks. .

Posted by: Vic at June 22, 2012 07:48 AM (YdQQY)

70 I drink regular coffee, black. No additives, no nothing.

Starbucks regular coffee must be like licking a baboons bunghole after it just finished blowing mud, because it's really bad.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 07:48 AM (UK9cE)

Looks like I need to rethink my morning routine. I'm gonna miss the cute little barista.

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2012 07:48 AM (wAQA5)

72 66 touche'

Posted by: Honey Badger Drinker of Mead at June 22, 2012 07:48 AM (GvYeG)

73 Instamatic film cartridge viewed from the side?

Posted by: Waterhouse at June 22, 2012 11:34 AM (Brjev)

HA!!!! I immediately went boobs, but THAT is funny.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 07:49 AM (UK9cE)

74 where's the "morning coffee crew" troll to school us on coffee? Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny

I'm gonna wish you into a cornfield phoenixgirl.

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:49 AM (iYbLN)

75 Unfortunately they will still be using ground turd for anything brown.

Posted by: Bill Mitchell at June 22, 2012 07:49 AM (hlUJY)

76 I will poop up a batch post haste!

Posted by: Civet Kitteh at June 22, 2012 07:50 AM (HaUJF)

77 So what's this coffee beverage everyone is talking about?

Posted by: Honey Badger Drinker of Mead at June 22, 2012 07:50 AM (GvYeG)

78 Some of the best coffee I had was at Swirlz Cupcakes in Chicago. The cupcakes are awesome, of course, and the coffee is just coffee they buy, but it is so good. I should have asked what kind it is.

Posted by: Crispian at June 22, 2012 07:50 AM (uBMtY)

79 The bug is called the Cochineal. The history is kind of interesting. Before the discovery of the New World bright red was almost impossible to create in a fabric. I think they used berries mainly. The cochineal comes from Mexico and when the Spaniards discovered its use by the Aztecs, a huge European market for it grew up practically overnight. The bugs were traded on the commodity exchange in London for huge amounts of money.

Posted by: Cicero at June 22, 2012 07:50 AM (QKKT0)

80 I don't drink coffee. One more little addiction I don't need.

Posted by: nickless at June 22, 2012 07:50 AM (MMC8r)

81 50. Feisty are we? The other day at dinner T and A were talking about getting new football jerseys A. Hey mom, are you getting a titans jersey? T. Yep A. Why don't you root for a team that can win? Me. Ohhh, sports burn!! (highfives with A) T. Words of wisdom from cubs fans

Posted by: navycopjoe at June 22, 2012 07:50 AM (Ca+zh)

82 Dunkin' Donuts K-Cups. On the list of mankind's achievements, they're right up there with penicillin, the Apollo program, and the Internet.

Posted by: Gran at June 22, 2012 07:50 AM (p8FXV)

83 I am so happy today. The SEIU got smacked down by the Supremes yesterday. I'm forced to pay into the union but I'm not a member.

Starbucks for everyone!!!

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:51 AM (iYbLN)

84 Dunkin' Donuts K-Cups.

On the list of mankind's achievements, they're right up there with penicillin, the Apollo program, and the Internet. Posted by: Gran

Those are fantastic!

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:51 AM (iYbLN)

85 That's racist!

Posted by: Carmine Rossi at June 22, 2012 07:51 AM (V4Pya)

86 Must be the amphetamine pellets that keep everyone coming back.

Posted by: wth at June 22, 2012 07:51 AM (wAQA5)

87 Its not a bug, its a feature

Posted by: Carmine Rossi at June 22, 2012 07:52 AM (V4Pya)

88 Fat, sugar, salt and coffee are the four basic food groups.

Posted by: toby928© at June 22, 2012 07:52 AM (QupBk)

89 one of those coffees is made from coffee beans that some monkey has shat out it's ass....
Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at June 22, 2012 11:45 AM (d9PlV)

As opposed to the one that it's shat out of it's left nipple?

Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 07:52 AM (UK9cE)

90 Cupcakes? Where? Give them to me now!!!

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:53 AM (iYbLN)

91 80--" I don't drink coffee. One more little addiction I don't need." With prices the way they are today, you are lucky!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 22, 2012 07:53 AM (C8mVl)

I love Dunkin Donuts whole bean....you can get it at most grocery stores now, even Walmart and Target.

56...one of those coffees is made from coffee beans that some monkey has shat out it's ass....

At Starbugs? ....Yet another reason to not go there. That one probably is one of the more high priced ones on the menu, right?

I mean....because of the extra labor cost involved in watching the monkeys shit out those beans.

Posted by: wheatie at June 22, 2012 07:53 AM (M2JTb)

93 @83 Alito was brazenly crafty in his opinion though. I think he is right, but his coy references to precedent not being consistent with the Constitution...without overruling that precedent was fun.

Posted by: Crispian at June 22, 2012 07:53 AM (uBMtY)

94 "outside coffee"--come on, go full Appalachian White Poor and call it "fotched-on."

Posted by: Anwyn at June 22, 2012 07:53 AM (VOgHS)

95 Fat, sugar, salt and coffee are the four basic food groups. Posted by: toby928Â© at June 22, 2012 11:52 AM (QupBk) You forgot beer.

Posted by: mr. scorpio at June 22, 2012 07:53 AM (GKgjv)

96 McDonalds has better coffee than Starbucks.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 22, 2012 11:40 AM (C8mVl)

;;;;

Everybody has better coffee than Starbucks. I have decided this is intentional. Customers spending up for extras to cover the crap taste is how Starbucks boosts profits.

Posted by: Meremortal at June 22, 2012 07:53 AM (Usk3+)

97 Isn't there some really exotic tea that's made out of animal shit?

Posted by: Cicero at June 22, 2012 07:54 AM (QKKT0)

98 go full Appalachian White Poor and call it "fotched-on."
Posted by: Anwyn

Explain please.

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 07:54 AM (iYbLN)

99 That same red dye is in a lot of foods. Nothing like chewing on some chewing gum secure in the knowledge that it's vibrant color comes from bug shells.

Posted by: dave at June 22, 2012 07:54 AM (D1my8)

100 @ 84 Personally, I like a, G-cup much fuller.

Posted by: Clemenza at June 22, 2012 07:54 AM (fCSfn)

101 Young Boy with Coffee: Excuse me, I happened to be passing, and I thought you might like some coffee. Little Girl: Oh, that's very nice of you, thank you. [takes coffee] Little Girl: Oh, won't you sit down? Young Boy with Coffee: Cream? Little Girl: No, thank you, I take it black, like my men.

Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 22, 2012 07:54 AM (136wp)

102 @87 Hahaha, I've seen that phrase pop up a bit lately, perfect use!

@90 if ever in Chicago, you should check that place out.

Posted by: Crispian at June 22, 2012 07:54 AM (uBMtY)

103 Mpfs, this being the internet, for all I know you ARE Jeff Goldstein... his more feminine side, of course.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2012 07:55 AM (4xNyt)

104 For the record give me coffee from one of those old school 5lb cans the military used to use any day!!

Posted by: navycopjoe at June 22, 2012 11:45 AM (eYiNi)

I thought they were 20 pound cans and YES that was the best coffee I have ever had.

Posted by: Vic at June 22, 2012 07:55 AM (YdQQY)

105 You forgot beer.
Posted by: mr. scorpio at June 22, 2012 11:53 AM (GKgjv)

And Bacon.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 07:56 AM (UK9cE)

106 97 Isn't there some really exotic tea that's made out of animal shit? Posted by: Cicero at June 22, 2012 11:54 AM (QKKT0) Do you mean this: (from Wiki) Kopi luwak (Indonesian pronunciation: [ˈkopi ˈlu.aʔ]), or civet coffee, is one of the world's most expensive and low-production varieties of coffee. It is made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other related civets, then passed through its digestive tract.[1]

Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 22, 2012 07:56 AM (136wp)

107 Posted by: navycopjoe at June 22, 2012 11:50 AM T & A? How appropriate for the AoSHQ website

Posted by: Arms Merchant at June 22, 2012 07:56 AM (+XVQe)

108
Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say...

??

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2012 07:56 AM (G/zuv)

109 88--" Fat, sugar, salt and coffee are the four basic food groups." This is correct but nearly all bona fide authorities concede that you CAN substitute chocolate for the coffee. Also, I would recommend supplementing the basics with at least some preservatives.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 22, 2012 07:57 AM (C8mVl)

110 If you stand in line in front of me at Starbucks for more than 2 minutes, and get to the counter and don't know what you want, I am going to straight up murder your ass.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at June 22, 2012 07:57 AM (WvXvd)

111 Little Girl: No, thank you, I take it black, like my men.
Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 22, 2012 11:54 AM (136wp)

Top 10 movie of all time.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 22, 2012 07:57 AM (UK9cE)

112 I rarely go into ours here, but if I do, I order a small. And if you give them the right look when you place that order and are saying "small," they don't correct you with their italian bullshit, or whatever it is.

I've had them try it on me when somewhere other than in my home town village, and I just say, "yeah, pizza, spaghetti, whatever, just make sure it's a small."

The only real alternative we have here, besides driving to the next town where there is a Dunkin Donuts, is a McDonalds, where one can get a senior coffee for 50 cents plus tax, or for all ages, the super large coffee is a buck. Yeah, one dollar. Plus eight cents for the guv.

Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at June 22, 2012 07:58 AM (PH+2B)

113 All we are is dust in the wind, man.

Posted by: toby928© at June 22, 2012 07:58 AM (QupBk)

114 108 Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man Though my mind could think I still was a mad man I hear the voices when I'm dreaming I can hear them say... ?? Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2012 11:56 AM (G/zuv) "Wake up, you fat-ass. You're manager keeps calling from Denny's. It's you turn to clean out the bathrooms. There are thirty Hell's Angels are here and they are eating the Fajitas special..."

Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 22, 2012 07:58 AM (136wp)

115 107. Its my wife and daughter They are too insane and violent for the moron horde Although the wife is a regular lurker

Posted by: navycopjoe at June 22, 2012 07:58 AM (3A7PP)

116
*incoming transmission from moonbat central*

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2012 07:59 AM (G/zuv)

117 I thought bugs are pure protein? Isn't that a good thing?

_{Today
at 1:45 our time, is the match between Germany v Greece, being played in
Poland.}

_{What
are your thoughts about the game and the riots after?}

_{Am
I reading too much into this?}

Posted by: Paladin at June 22, 2012 07:59 AM (QGbEp)

118 I hate Starbuck's with the fiery passion of all 9 circles of hell compacted and shoved into the back of a Prius with a dead battery, and 10-hipster clowns forced to wear sensible shoes, while panhandling change to buy a gallon of gas.

Posted by: Feynmangroupie at June 22, 2012 07:59 AM (oI744)

119 Does Fauxcahontas know she's payin for this?

Posted by: Captain FAPtastical at June 22, 2012 07:59 AM (/pd0C)

120
"Wake up, you fat-ass. You're manager keeps calling from Denny's. It's you turn to clean out the bathrooms. There are thirty Hell's Angels are here and they are eating the Fajitas special..."

wow, close

Posted by: Kansas at June 22, 2012 07:59 AM (G/zuv)

121 108 - Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2012 07:59 AM (4xNyt)

122 Explain please.--mpfs

I've read "fotched-on" in some books I've read that have poor Appalachian characters in them--I think it's dialect for "fetched-on" or "brought-on"--brought on from outside the community, store-bought as opposed to homemade. That's my understanding at least.

Posted by: Anwyn at June 22, 2012 08:00 AM (VOgHS)

123 79 Cicero, Its good to know there r other history nerds out there besides myself. I hadnt heard that exact story, but im sure if u texted it to my wife or fam theyd swear it was from me.

Posted by: Infidelswine at June 22, 2012 08:00 AM (GAKWa)

124

Crushed bugs are pretty common to color things. That "Natural Red E120" stuff? Crushed and powdered cochineal beetles. We've been eating it for ages, in addition to dying clothes, using it in paint, etc. It doesn't really bother me, though I'm sure some cultures (and individuals) don't like the idea of eating bugs.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 22, 2012 08:01 AM (4df7R)

125 I thought bugs are pure protein? *nods*

Posted by: The International League of Keratinous Creatures at June 22, 2012 08:01 AM (QupBk)

126 Dunkin' Donuts K-Cups.

On the list of mankind's achievements, they're right up there with penicillin, the Apollo program, and the Internet.

****

I love their bagged whole-bean and ground coffee but have been exceedingly disappointed with their k-cups.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 22, 2012 08:01 AM (piMMO)

127 Am
I reading too much into this?

Posted by: Paladin

We can't read it at all.

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 08:01 AM (iYbLN)

128
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Posted by: soothsayer at June 22, 2012 08:01 AM (G/zuv)

129 Kaladi Brothers Coffee. Best in the world, bar none. Google it.

Posted by: tcn at June 22, 2012 08:02 AM (eFcVx)

130
hahaha @ "make him pay for his attacks"

and hahahahaha @ the notion Scott Brown is "demonizing" anyone

How do you demonize the demonizers?

Posted by: soothsayer at June 22, 2012 08:03 AM (G/zuv)

131 I tried some Dunkin Donuts coffee (in a bag) and it was OK but I don;t see what everyone was crowing about. I am now drinking the cheapest shit WalMart has and I can't tell the difference.

I did try some Blue Mountain that my wife got me. It was damned good but it cost $25 for a 1 pound bag. It wasn't that good.

Posted by: Vic at June 22, 2012 08:04 AM (YdQQY)

132
All we are is dust in the wind, man.

Cereally, man?

Posted by: Kansas at June 22, 2012 08:04 AM (G/zuv)

133 Soothsayer: Thanks to you, I'll be humming "Carry On Wayward Son" the rest of the day. And I'd JUST weaned myself off that song. Damn Supernatural...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 22, 2012 08:04 AM (4df7R)

134 All we are is dust in the wind, man.

A Swiffer will take care of that in no time.

Posted by: mpfs at June 22, 2012 08:05 AM (iYbLN)

135 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 IE4? Dude, c'mon, at least move up to IE6

Posted by: booger at June 22, 2012 08:06 AM (HI6wa)

136
it's okay, MWR, because next Friday you'll be hearing SUPERTRAMP's Give A Little Bit in your head all weekend

Posted by: Kansas at June 22, 2012 08:06 AM (G/zuv)

137
btw, the only stupid shrill meme missing from Kos' email is "Scott Brown is afraid of Elizabeth Warren's vagina!"

Posted by: Kansas at June 22, 2012 08:08 AM (G/zuv)

138 Isn't there some really exotic tea that's made out of animal shit?
--
The Indonesian obami tea.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 22, 2012 08:09 AM (eEfYn)

139 I have a little teeny french press that I put a couple of spoons of coffee with chicory in, makes coffee in about 30 seconds. Costs almost nothing. Neve burnt, never bitter. And I save a ton of money. (4 dollars per day).

Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 08:10 AM (Dnbau)

140 is that coffee made out of poo really called Obama tea?

Posted by: Thunderb at June 22, 2012 08:11 AM (Dnbau)

141 BTW the Cubbies suck!
Posted by: mpfs
Just when I was starting to feel comfy here..they're just having a bad start - yea, that's it!

Posted by: myYbj at June 22, 2012 08:12 AM (myYbj)

142 @79 Cochineal was used sparingly in 19th century Turkomen rugs. Stuff is still a deep red today on old rugs. Aniline dyes would go off after a couple of decades or less, no bother for clothes, but no so good for rugs.
I'm much more repulsed by that Indonesian civet poop coffee where instead of a possible rodent turd in the beans you are guaranteed that they have been immersed in poop. And you pay dearly for the privilege.

Posted by: chuckR at June 22, 2012 08:14 AM (XLu7l)

143 40 McDonalds has better coffee than Starbucks. Posted by: Margarita DeVille I agree- I used to sell gourmet coffee in my stores in the eighties- I got the idea from living in Seattle at the time. Frankly our Mickey Dee's coffee is darn good for institutional coffee and it's fast, convenient, and cheap-- what's not to like?

Posted by: backhoe at June 22, 2012 08:18 AM (ULH4o)

144 In the 1880's, Good Housekeeping ran a serial story about a young woman who was able to maintain a household on ten dollars a week, using only her superior cooking-school skills. She bought cochineal in the local grocery store, and the story explained how to prepare it as food coloring for cake frosting.

This was in a story and in a time that was crazy-nuts about the evils of food-tampering, like using copper to make pickles greener or ammonia to make bread whiter, but if you wanted pink cake, you used bug shells and everybody was cool with that.

Posted by: VKI at June 22, 2012 08:21 AM (TKoA3)

145 I stop in Starbucks once in a while on the FL turnpike. Their thin wood coffee stirrers are rad for mixing small batches of epoxy. Much better than Popsicle sticks. I aways grab a big handful.

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 22, 2012 08:22 AM (Q5hSa)

146

I pretty much ended my outside coffee days after college. $6 for the smallest drink option is for congresspeople.

Dunkin Donuts. Don't go there for the bakery - it's kind of crappy. The coffee is excellent, it's what makes the franchise, and it's about $2 for the extra large option.

And they have a drive-through.

Posted by: Entropy at June 22, 2012 08:29 AM (TULs6)

147

Frankly our Mickey Dee's coffee is darn good for institutional coffee and it's fast, convenient, and cheap-- what's not to like?

Yeah, McDonald's coffee is actually fairly good.

But Dunkin is still better.

Posted by: Entropy at June 22, 2012 08:31 AM (TULs6)

148 @137 btw, the only stupid shrill meme missing from Kos' email is "Scott Brown is afraid of Elizabeth Warren's vagina!" Posted by: Kansas at June 22, 2012 12:08 PM (G/zuv) Well, time to hit the old dusty trail. And by old dusty trail, I mean me.

Posted by: Elizabeth warren's Vagina at June 22, 2012 08:31 AM (G9qZk)

149 I don't often drink coffee, but when I do I drink Dos Equis.
Stay Thirsty my friends.

Posted by: That Interesting Guy at June 22, 2012 08:32 AM (QM5S2)

150 El Pico coffee is good and inexpensive. Cafe Bustelo is always the standby. Medaglia d'Oro is great but not cheap. I like searching out brands while traveling. Found "Cafe Norma" in Ybor City which turned out to be a local brand. Really good.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 22, 2012 08:36 AM (QVMU9)

151 Thank you, thank you,thank you!! I have been trying to eliminate the Starbucks stops out of my morning rituals due to my wife being addicted to the stuff and this story insta weened her off of it. Just got off the phone and she is super grossed out.My day has been made.

Posted by: Drider at June 22, 2012 08:38 AM (HaJD9)

152

They used the red bug shells because of the anti-chemical people.

Oh. You mean the people who eat diamonds and gold dust and drink liquid nitrogen?

"No chemicals". WTF is it? A bag of neutrinos? Are you gonna feed me a vacuum?

Posted by: Entropy at June 22, 2012 08:39 AM (TULs6)

153 Would you rather have cochineal dye, or red dye #2? I'm going with bugs, not that I drink overpriced coffee made from over-roasted beans.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 22, 2012 08:41 AM (DRgeg)

154 Word's highest rated coffee. Note neither Starbusks, not Dunkin Donuts coffee made the list.

Posted by: Vic at June 22, 2012 08:41 AM (YdQQY)

155 oops left out link

http://is.gd/NF1vyv

Posted by: Vic at June 22, 2012 08:44 AM (YdQQY)

156 If you want good coffee, make Turkish coffee. Three tablespoons of coffee beans, ground to the consistency of flour, add one teaspoon of cardamom, and dump it directly into a cup of water. Bring to a near boil, pour into glass, and wait a few moments for the 1/2 inch of sediment to settle. Saves you the time of drinking an entire pot of coffee.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 22, 2012 08:45 AM (DRgeg)

157 Can I still get a half caf double decaf caffeinated half caf? With a twist of lemon?

Posted by: Codec717 at June 22, 2012 08:45 AM (bMlVI)

158 Every Hawaiian coffee I've ever tried I hated.

Posted by: Entropy at June 22, 2012 08:46 AM (TULs6)

159 Word. My sister brought Kona back with her after a trip and it was pretty bad.

Posted by: lauraw at June 22, 2012 08:51 AM (D8m2H)

160 Yeah, and I heard that Nixon resigned.

Posted by: Gerry at June 22, 2012 08:52 AM (mmKw/)

161 What can I get for you today, Mr. Clinton?

Posted by: Barry "Barista" Obama 2013 at June 22, 2012 08:53 AM (wAQA5)

162 Navy coffee is the best I have ever had. BTW, the Navy makes its own coffee from South and Central American beans. It blends it, roasts it, and grinds it at its own factories in Oakland and Brooklyn.

Posted by: Vic at June 22, 2012 08:58 AM (YdQQY)

163 Coffee partee?
Reagan loved his gay son.
Hence, the gay asshole White House "flip off" of Reagan.

Posted by: panzernashorn at June 22, 2012 09:00 AM (BAnPT)

164 Happened to be on the Rushmore for transit from Hawaii.
The coffee was like toxic bilgewater pumped out of the amtracks after they crawled thru the mud of some disease infested river delta.
Not recommended.

Posted by: Friends don't let friends drink navy coffee at June 22, 2012 09:02 AM (QM5S2)

165 Perhaps the Navy could go in business selling that coffee and make enough money to buy their own ships.

I know we used to always get out coffee ration whether we needed it or not and stored it under the deck plates on the upper level of the engine room. When we needed something like tools etc when we were in port we would take it off the ship and trade it.

We never had any budget but you could get a lot of shit with that coffee.

Posted by: Vic at June 22, 2012 09:03 AM (YdQQY)

166 Cochineal bugs are real common around here (South Texas). They sit around all day eating prickly pear cactus, and when you squish them, it makes a scarlet smear. It's the dye that was used for the British red coats and stuff like that through the years. I don't mind eating it, but I don't know why everything has to have fake color in it.

Posted by: stace at June 22, 2012 09:07 AM (lYlx9)

167

First they take the dolphin out of the tuna now this!

I don't want to live on this planet any more.

Posted by: Max Entropy at June 22, 2012 09:07 AM (Ejwhh)

168 The coffee was like toxic bilgewater pumped out of the amtracks after they crawled thru the mud of some disease infested river delta.
Not recommended.

Posted by: Friends don't let friends drink navy coffee at June 22, 2012 01:02 PM (QM5S2)

You must be talking about mess deck coffee made by E-2 squibs. Yes, that was mostly reheated shit and was not fit for human consumption. The good coffee is always on the bridge or in the engine room.

Posted by: Vic at June 22, 2012 09:07 AM (YdQQY)

169 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at June 22, 2012 09:46 AM (Xb3hu)

170 scouring bowels...

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The Obama Event Registry
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Posted by: panzernashorn at June 22, 2012 10:04 AM (BAnPT)

171 This is their Eco-friendly red dye in strawberry smoothies, pink frosting and red velvet cupcakes. The same people eating this shit eat breakfast cereal, which is 10% bug limbs.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at June 22, 2012 12:35 PM (+5ahd)

172 The Beetle Joooos control everything!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 22, 2012 05:47 PM (nrW1y)

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