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Murky Etiquette and Murky Coffee

July 15, 2008 RSS Feed Print

It sounds like a cheesy sitcom scene: Man goes into coffee shop. He orders his favorite drink, a triple shot of espresso over ice. Barista declines; he says the drink goes against company policy because pouring espresso over ice ruins the quality of the coffee. Man gets angry. He leaves a tip with an expletive scrawled across it.

That's not even the end of the story. The owner of the coffee shop, Murky Coffee, then writes an open letter to the customer explaining why the barista behaved properly. (It did not enlighten me, though, as to why espresso and ice should not mix. Here is an excerpt: "OK, we don't do espresso over ice. Why? Number one, because we don't do it. Number two, because we don't do it.")

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Singles mecklenburg vorpommern of 10:22PM March 30, 2010

Just as there are steak houses which will refuse to cook their fare to well done, so may one who prepares fine coffee refuse to degrade it by submitting it to ice. I think its well over the top of silly, but it is (supposed to be) a free country,
and the guy owns his shop.
You don't like it, go away. Kindly show some class when you do.
I was in the biz for years and was often asked about the
"esthetics" of mixing stuff in with fine coffee. My reply
always was that once you've paid me for it, you can pee in
it for all I care.

Mike 10:39AM September 14, 2008

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