RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

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 --
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> 


        
                
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