Coffee
In Canada you can get a cup of coffee!
I mean, you can get a "Cup of COFFEE!!!"
Did you ever go into a coffee shop and ask for a coffee? The clerk looks at you like you have three heads!
"Wha' kinda coffee ya' wan'?" She asks in a nazzally, high pitched whine.
When you finally figure out what she said, you look at the menu board and try to decide between about 100 different flavours or blends. If you wanted a fruit punch, you'd order a Snapple and if you wanted a blend I can recommend a really good scotch. Finally you give up and say, "Look, all I want is a coffee. Don't you sell just coffee?"
"Well," There's that fingernails-on-chalkboard voice again, "Double, Dark Roasted Arabica is pretty much the standard and is our most popular." So, you decide to accept her advice and be on your way. But when you take that first sip, you discover that she just used it to wash the floor before serving it to you. Or perhaps the manager washed his socks in it. Or maybe both. You know why it's their most popular don't you? Everyone that comes in goes through pretty much the same routine that you just did and so this is the flavour she pushes...so, it becomes the most popular.
But there is a place you can go and when you ask for coffee, you get coffee! As a matter of fact, you don't even have to say "coffee", because the only choices that you have are : how much sugar, how much cream and if you want decaf. So you walk up to the counter or go through the drive-through and say "Large double-double" or "Small black decaf." Nothing more is required.
You get coffee!
No wonder Canada is so agressive at guarding these places!
I mean, you can get a "Cup of COFFEE!!!"
Did you ever go into a coffee shop and ask for a coffee? The clerk looks at you like you have three heads!
"Wha' kinda coffee ya' wan'?" She asks in a nazzally, high pitched whine.
When you finally figure out what she said, you look at the menu board and try to decide between about 100 different flavours or blends. If you wanted a fruit punch, you'd order a Snapple and if you wanted a blend I can recommend a really good scotch. Finally you give up and say, "Look, all I want is a coffee. Don't you sell just coffee?"
"Well," There's that fingernails-on-chalkboard voice again, "Double, Dark Roasted Arabica is pretty much the standard and is our most popular." So, you decide to accept her advice and be on your way. But when you take that first sip, you discover that she just used it to wash the floor before serving it to you. Or perhaps the manager washed his socks in it. Or maybe both. You know why it's their most popular don't you? Everyone that comes in goes through pretty much the same routine that you just did and so this is the flavour she pushes...so, it becomes the most popular.
But there is a place you can go and when you ask for coffee, you get coffee! As a matter of fact, you don't even have to say "coffee", because the only choices that you have are : how much sugar, how much cream and if you want decaf. So you walk up to the counter or go through the drive-through and say "Large double-double" or "Small black decaf." Nothing more is required.
You get coffee!
No wonder Canada is so agressive at guarding these places!
Unfortunately, I hear that they are opening franchises in the United States.
posted by Ken at 7:34 p.m.
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