RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

No James, it's not a Dolly Madison Bakery Outlet. It's just another 
"couples-friendly" smut shop.

Ross

James Hepler wrote:
> 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.
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