More MSM coverage of the Starbucks Challenge, this time in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. (Guardian UK reported on the challenge last month)
Masha of the food snoop — who gave us the handy list of fair trade & organic coffee shops in San Francisco, now reports on the “theory-versus-practice aspect of Starbucks’s (and perhaps other coffee leviathans’?) offer to make a French press of fair-trade coffee for any customer so desiring.”
I like how Masha weaves in words like obfuscation and prevarication into her coffee talk! And next time I’m in NoCal, I’ll try her latest recommendation: Arizmendi Bakery Cooperative, a yum bakery that also serves fair trade coffee :)
If McDonald’s can serve fair trade coffee, certainly Starbucks oughta…
Comment by Amy — February 3, 2006 @ 5:33 pm
You’d think so. I wonder if Starbucks will wait till McDonald’s rolls out fair trade coffee around the US, and the mermaid’s shares start falling –
Comment by Siel — February 3, 2006 @ 10:11 pm
Hey Siel…good job! Keeping the challenge alive…and that barista Claire…what a gal!
Namaste
Al
Comment by cityhippy — February 4, 2006 @ 3:02 am
GLAG! Like a battle cry! :)
Comment by Jasmin — February 4, 2006 @ 4:07 pm
Hehe — I like GLAG a lot more than greenlag, the truncated version of greenlagirl that my host assigned me as my username. I’m not a green lag!
Comment by Siel — February 4, 2006 @ 6:43 pm