Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. -- Bestselling author, Jared Diamond –
Kudos Starbucks!
Have a great Wednesday y’all!
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Have you noticed this up there...our Starbucks in the States use the brown cardboard hot cuffs on the cups...several days in a row I'd get coffee get back to my office and smell burning wood...I'd walk around checking the potpourri pot, the candle warmer, the heating, and then the smell would fade. Finally, on one of our hot days, I was pushing up my sunglasses with the hand that held my cup and VOILA, there was the smell! Turns out those cuffs contain at least 60% post consumer recycled content-enough real wood apparently that the hot, hot coffee made it smell like it was burning. I felt like a dolt...
Cleo, I have never noticed the phenomenon you describe, but it is quite interesting. I have never noticed the burning wood sensation. I guess I am always too busy actually drinking my own bodyweight of the stuff to ever smell the forest fire in progress. And then there's all the hollering going on too, and the baristas running around, buzzing like a hive of bees.
At such moments... "I can't smell the forest for the bees!"
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