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  • From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Ideas!
  • Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:02:23 -0800 (PST)

Speaking of businesses I know nothing about, does
anyone know what Cherry Pie on Chapel Hill-Durham
Boulevard is? Right by Suto Protocall (AKA chapel
hill tire) near of Lowes. Because I know what I think
it is or what I think it should be.




--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> OK, I get it, y'all were pulling my leg. Ha ha, very
> funny.
>
> I just got back from Chosun Ok, the new Korean joint
> in that same
> shopping center. Oh man, that was some tasty BBQ
> beef. The Be-Bim Bap
> was pretty good as well. The menu is also insanely
> loaded with all kinds
> of authentic and/or bizarre items like baby goat
> soup and a huge variety
> of fish dishes.
>
> Based upon y'all's "recommendations", I then
> proceeded down the
> stripmall to Ideas! It being mysteriously warm
> outside, and thus even
> hotter inside my coat, I decided to order a tasty
> iced coffee beverage.
>
> Y'all can make fun of me if you want--I almost
> certainly deserve it--but
> I will argue at this juncture that yr basic set of
> tasty iced-coffee
> beverages are well within the normal/expected
> repertoire of any decent
> modern coffee joint. Or, more to the point: if
> you're gonna have them on
> the menu, then you should care enough to make them
> correctly. If you
> want to be a coffee/espresso/cappucino-only purist
> establishment, then I
> applaud yr purism & I'll order one of those. Ideas!
> is not a purist
> joint, however.
>
> So, being lactose intolerant, I politely inquired as
> to whether they
> have soy milk. Receiving a response in the
> affirmative, I proceeded to
> order a decaf soy iced mocha.
>
> I then sat there in horror and watched as the dude
> pulled down a big
> plastic tub from the shelf and shoveled several
> scoopfuls of powder into
> the blender, added a bunch of ice, and hit "frappe"
> or whatever the fuck
> the button says.
>
> I will admit that for the first half of the process
> I wasn't paying
> complete attention, so I can't really say for
> certain whether any
> espresso was harmed in the making of my
> franken-beverage. I *can* say
> for certain that I didn't see any soy milk *or*
> chocolate syrup go into
> the thing.
>
> Thoroughly skeeved but not wishing to get into a
> long discussion about
> why mystery powder isn't a normal coffee beverage
> ingredient, I paid &
> left.
>
> My subsequent internet research was unable to turn
> up an exact
> ingredient list for the "Big Train Iced Mocha" mix
> that he used, but I
> *did* find an ingredient list for the "low-carb"
> version of same;
> difference presumably being the substitution of
> Splenda for the crapload
> of sugar that was clearly part of the high-carb
> version I received:
>
> "Ingredients: Protein From Nonfat Milk and Calcium
> Caseinate,
> Erythritol, Sunflower Oil, Cocoa, Coffee, Natural
> and Artificial
> Flavors, Carrageenan, Salt, Xanthan and Guar Gums,
> Disodium and
> Dipotassium Phosphate, Mono and Diglyceridees,
> Lecithin and Sucralose
> (Splenda Brand)."
>
> http://www.bigtrain.com/pages/blendedicecoffee.html
>
> So not only did the motherfucker charge me $3.50 for
> a noxious brown
> substance with an assload of sugar, a bizarre
> McDonalds Shake-like
> consistency, and virtually no coffee flavor, but he
> fed me dairy
> products in the process.
>
> It sorta boggles my mind that Counter Culture can be
> roasting tons of
> their remarkably good beans less than 2 miles
> away--filling the air with
> the aroma of roasting coffee, driving me slowly
> mad--and yet we can't
> seem to muster up a single decent coffee shop in
> RTP. WTF?
>
> Then again, isn't there a McCafe out Miami a ways?
>
> Ross
>
> rick sawyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:04:37 -0500, Rick! wrote:
> >
> >>grady wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>p.s. and a coffeeshop not run by crazy people. If
> such a thing exists.
> >>
> >>Ideas! (Next to Spice and Curry.)
> >>
> >
> >
> > amen. my favorite thing about getting car fixed
> (at WASP, natch) is
> > the opportunity to stop by Ideas! the city of
> durham does not have a
> > suitable, civic minded, local business-y analog
> (though it does remind
> > me of the long (and loudly) mourned jimmy's bagel
> bakery.) and i'd
> > rather have a crazy person fix my coffee than a
> bored hipster any day.
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
>




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