Writers are more than welcome to share their coffee stories and poetry with us! The latest edition includes 31 little ditties from Randall D. Barfield about Carlos the Young Coffee Picker.
Other tidbits below might help you dream up some coffee literature as well. After all, truth is stranger than…
A PASSENGER on an Air France flight from Bordeaux to Paris is suing the airline after allegedly being poisoned by a cup of coffee containing drain cleaner. This story is a series of unfortunate events will lead to an operation that will remove part of the passenger’s stomach to reconstruct his oesophagus, an operation which carries a 5-8 per cent risk of death. Read more at The Scotsman.
What if you couldn’t have your morning cuppa brew at the local coffeeshop? That happened in Vancouver recently when the area was placed under a boil water advisory. Dr. Patricia Daly, Medical Health Officer with Vancouver Coastal Health says high levels of turbidity is the reason why people should only be drinking bottled water or water that has been boiled for a full minute - not a great situation for coffeemakers. Read more at News 1130.
Sahar Shefa, the owner and founder of the Aroma coffee chain in Tel Aviv, offered a quote that most writers would be jealous about if the writer was penning a book on patriarchy, abuse, mysogany, and racism. He said: “You see my skin color? I’m white and you’re black, I will screw you, this white guy is going to teach you a lesson, you are a black stain. You are a black and inferior woman. You are an idiot. You’re nothing and I make 800 dollars a minute.” Read more at YNet News.
Another coffee-throwing incident. This time the missile was a Starbucks coffee thrown by an irate customer at a clerk in a drive-through window. The problem? The coffeeshop was out of scones…and the Starbucks attacker is still at large…Read more at the Calgary Sun.
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