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Supposedly Offensive Coffee…?

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Apparently Starbucks coffee has a “new” fat free / sugar free coffee drink. its called “skinny”.. People are calling this “offensive” and “politically incorrect”, wow… just wow… what the hell, we all know starbucks has there made up language with goofy ass coffee names. To me, Offensive coffee is bad coffee.

Anyways from this article at MSN money people are making a shitstorm outta there new coffee type.

it starts out as

“Shortly after Starbucks (SBUX, news, msgs) launched its new woman-centric “skinny latte” advertising campaign in January, the blogosphere erupted in criticism –- and some praise.”

personally I cant see how this new coffee or a single word can cause all this. But we live in the fucked up world where christmas lights can be labeled as politically incorrect.

I am not so much a starbucks person, I dont like them, theres just too many intricacies in ordering a regular coffee there. Pseudo language skills should not have a place in ordering a coffee.

I walked into a starbucks once and ordered a coffee – It went like this.

Worker(no I will not call the workers a “barista” (translation: barman barmaid -if Starbucks starts offering beer i will call them that”)):Hi How may I help you today

Me: I would like a large coffee, Milk with extra sugar

W: So you would like a Venti with Milk and sugar ( that half assed helpful tone of voice to correct me as if i had said something wrong)

Me: Large coffee , milk with extra sugar

W: *he goes to correct again*
Me: fuck it im going to dunkin donuts

Anyways enough about the language barrier of starbucks.

I hardly see the offense in calling it a “skinny latte” or whatever. The usage of the word has been around far before starbucks has made use of this term. This who thing about people getting there undies in a knot over this is fucking funny in one way. its the ultra politically correct trying to make something from nothing. if you actually take the time to look skinny has been in use WAAAAAAAAY before they made this that page is from 1999 (Jan 9, 1999 from wayback machine)

I could see it being offending if they called it the “Your a fat hose beast coffee” personally I like that name better.
or the “hey fatty whatcha drinking latte”

I mean really , Are they going to next say extra large shirts are offensive……. now that i think about it , have you ever seen a fat person in a starbucks, I’ve not seen that?

So whats the next step the NBA being offended at starbucks because there “tall” coffee is actually a small?

Man people are so superficial and vain.

As for me I’ll be having my coffee from honey dew donuts.

Dunkin Donuts spreading coffee around the world… scary thought.

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Apparently dunkin donuts is going to china, they plan on opening 100 shops in Shanghai. I used to like Dunkin a very long time ago, until they business formula change and they pretty much just hired robot tending zombies and could not get a coffee right to save there lives. Many nights of getting coffees from Dunkin Donuts that just have gone wrong with coffee that you could either run in terror from or made so wrong that carrot top looks normal. they have gone the way of mcdonalds, Serving warmed shit(although mcdonalds gets an exception- you need to goto Sweden to actually get a burger that is edible compared to its US counterpart). Mostly my friends and I goto honey dew donuts, there you get people who know what you want before asking rather than the blank look you’d get going into a DD. So who knows.. MAYBE just maybe good coffee is out of the country but the judge is out on this one.

buwahahaha .. Dunkin Donuts recall.

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Last year Honey dew had a promotion with glow sticks. dunkin donuts decided to copy honey dew and fucked up in the process.

Dunkin’ Donuts Announces Withdrawal of Glow Sticks

CANTON, Mass. (October 5, 2007)
– Dunkin’ Donuts LLC is voluntarily withdrawing approximately 1,000,000
pink and orange Glow Sticks. Dunkin’ Donuts has determined that the
glow sticks distributed were not labeled properly to warn customers
that the cap and lanyard, when dislodged from the glow stick, poses a
choking hazard for children under the age of three (3) years old. The
company has not received any complaints or reports of personal injury.

Dunkin’ Donuts distributed the glow sticks free with every purchase
of a dozen donuts or 25- or 50-count box of Munchkins donut hole treats
beginning the week of September 24, 2007 at participating restaurants
nationwide.

Consumers who have received a glow stick should take them away from
children and discard them immediately. For more information, call
Dunkin’ Donuts Consumer Care at (800) 859-5339. Consumers also can
visit the firm’s Web site at www.DunkinDonuts.com.

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Contact:
Andrew Mastrangelo
Dunkin’ Brands, Inc.
781-737-3729
andrew.mastrangelo@dunkinbrands.com

wow What a promotion .. honey dew gives out the stick for FREE

No … Just no………….

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Dunkin Donuts is going to start selling pizza…. thats just a scary thought. they cant even get a coffee right , who knows what the fuck they would do to a pizza.

Subway, Dunkin’ give pizza a chance

By Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY
Subway is to sandwiches what Dunkin’ is to doughnuts. So why are both chains exploring — pizza?

It’s
because fast foodies find it tough to resist sticking a gooey finger in
the $28.5 billion pizza industry at a time when the pie biggies — Pizza
Hut (YUM), Domino’s (DPZ) and Papa John’s (PZZA) — have seen growth stall.

More than a decade ago, even McDonald’s (MCD)
tested pizza before tossing in the apron. But with consumer interest in
pizza high and pizza-dominated chains’ sales lagging, the temptation to
roll out the dough is once again peaking.

Of all meals eaten at restaurants, 9% now include pizza, reports NPD Group.

“The demographic of pizza eaters is about the same as oxygen breathers,” says Steve Green, publisher of PMQ’s Pizza Magazine, a trade publication.

Recent
pizza growth has been in artisan, take-n’-bake and rising-crust pizzas,
Green says. Now, Subway and Dunkin’ think faster, smaller pizzas may
find a niche.

Subway is dishing out
personal-size pizzas at about half its stores nationally, and Dunkin’
Donuts is testing personal pizzas at 15 prototype stores in six states.

“Everyone in the industry is keeping an eye on the new entries,” says Mandy Detwiler, managing editor at Pizza Today.