RTP-area local music and culture

["DJ Sad" <djsad AT sapoverde.net>]

The Warrant Tribute Museum?

Don't hate me.
I know you all were thinking that.

MOD

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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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