[wellylug] Good CafeNet cafe

Phillip Hutchings sitharus at sitharus.com
Tue Mar 16 12:48:25 NZDT 2004


On 16/03/2004, at 11:47 AM, Jonathan Harker wrote:

>> Jeremy Naylor wrote:
>> Hey Jonathan,
>>
>> Why not, sorry?
>
> The book "No Logo" by Naomi Klein is probably the best place to start. 
> Basically Starbucks use their giant buying power to rip off the 
> cheapest coffee from the poorest growers in the poorest countries of 
> the world, and hock it to you in nasty non-recyclable plastic cups at 
> just enough to undercut everyone else in town.
>
> Most other cafes use Havana, Supreme or similar, which are Fair Trade 
> coffees.
>
> Besides, it's like going to McDonalds - why bother eating nasty 
> plastic junk when there are loads of nice cheap restaurants available 
> with much better food?
>
> This is a whole non-Linux related, lefty environmentalist can-O-worms 
> so I'll stop here  :-)

But Starbucks is crap coffee anyway! Not very cheap either (Last time I 
looked it was $4-$7? Most coffee places are ~$3), and it makes me think 
of Battlestar Galactica ;)

Go to the Purple Onion, and you get far better coffee for half the 
price. Always a good bet.

--
Phillip Hutchings
me at sitharus.com
http://www.sitharus.com/
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