Coffee News Roundup
Hey do you know what this Sunday is? That’s right, it’s National Coffee Day, a day beloved of coffee marketers, freebie-hungry customers, and literally nobody else. It’s basically hyped-up nonsense designed to increase sales for big corporations, and if you’re a humble coffee news jockey trying
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Today is/was the Global Climate Strike, involving millions of participants all across the world and led by some genuinely remarkable young people. I went to the rally in Ann Arbor and it was really striking to see the number of articulate, passionate, angry teenagers who feel like their futures
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Hello and welcome to Friday the 13th, a day lucky for some (specifically Jason Voorhees) and unlucky for others (specifically everyone else in the movies). Today’s date got me thinking this morning: what coffee would Jason drink? My guess was literal (gas station coffee because what else is available
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Hello and welcome to Autumn. Fall. Pumpkin Spice Latte season. Whatever you want to call it, it’s certainly preferable to I’m-too-hot-to-move-or-go-outside-but-why-do-I-also-feel-guilty-about-not-enjoying-the-weather, or “summer” as it’s also known. So let’s celebrate the changing of the seasons by wrapping up in a blanket, sipping a PSL, and taking
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How is it Friday, again? Already? Shouldn’t there be other days in between? This whole “life speeding by” thing isn’t fair. When you’re a child time moves at the speed of moss: idly floating down a river on a barge; playing hide and seek in an echoey
Coffee News Roundup
Hello and welcome to another Coffee News Roundup, in which each week we gaze quizzically at coffee companies as they pull weird marketing stunts, release new and vaguely gross products, and unashamedly union-bust, and then go to brunch or whatever. So who are we mad at this week? Spot Coffee
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Welcome to the middle of August, where here in Michigan it is foggy and cool. It’s felt like fall for a few days now, which is a little unnerving considering, again, that it’s the middle of August. And this weekend is forecast to be muggy and hot. I
Coffee News Roundup
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Coffee News Roundup, this week brought to you by that delicious mix of excitement, trepidation, and low-grade dread that heralds the start of another Premier League season. There is very, very little coffee news this week, so let’s just dive in.
Coffee News Roundup
Hello and welcome to another Coffee News Roundup, your go-to source of sometimes informative, mostly pointless, always snarky coffee tidings. Coffee-Growing Nations Plan UN Protest as Slump Ruins Farmers - via Bloomberg Coffee prices are plummeting. Farmers are abandoning their farms, causing mass destabilization and migration. It’s having such
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Alright, here we go again. Buckle yourselves in, people, it’s going to be a wild ride. It’s not actually. Just trying to inject some urgency into proceedings. Now that we’re suitably amped, let’s take a look at the news. (Note: I’m not covering the Nestlé/
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It’s summer in Michigan, which means walking outside is like stepping into a hot shower. It’s like wading through a vat of soup. It’s humid, is what I’m trying to say. Now, coming from Scotland, I am used to cool summers full of rain and sunny-but-not-warm
Coffee News Roundup
Hello and welcome to another Friday, which means another roundup of the ins and outs, the highs and lows, the goods and bads, of news from the coffee world. We start with what is both an important story and also a flagrant piece of self-promotion. Former SPoT Coffee Employees Allege