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El Juno ([info]eljuno) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-04-02 13:57:00


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If milk is rape, does that make this prostitution?
The question:

Is it fair/right for a customer to order what we, at my store, call a "ghetto-latte"?

The "ghetto-latte" is ordering any size Iced Americano, with no water and half ice (This lady's drink is an Iced Venti, no water, half ice, Americano). She then takes the drink and goes to the condiments bar and adds her own half and half.


Seems reasonably simple, right?

Not something you'd expect to cause, say, a three-month, several-hundred comment long flamewar which would eventually get heated enough that comments would be closed?

Apparently, none of us know Starbucks that well.


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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-04-02 07:09 pm UTC (link)
Am I losing my mind or are those sugar snips in your icon?

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[info]ashenmote
2007-04-02 07:32 pm UTC (link)
Yay, I never was able to find the correct english word for it. My dictionary only offers sugar tongs and I knew that's a different thing!

If sugar nips are the old-fashioned tool used to scratch sugar crumbs from a sugar chunk that was chiseled from a sugar loaf, then yes, those are sugar snips. :)

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[info]barankhy
2007-04-02 07:51 pm UTC (link)
*growls* Meanwhile, I can't think of the German term for 'em, and that is really, really embarassing. I suck at culinary vocabulary in any language *sadfaces*

Care to enlighten me? Pretty please? Mit Hundeaugen?

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[info]ashenmote
2007-04-02 08:06 pm UTC (link)
That's "Zuckerbrecher" or "Zuckerzange". Though in later days "Zuckerzange" is also the term for the little tool you can use for moving sugar cubes from the bowl to your cup, so that could be misleading.

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[info]barankhy
2007-04-02 08:10 pm UTC (link)
*headdesks* And they're so obvious as far as names go, too.
No wonder I was better in my English LK than in German GK.

At least I know "Zuckerzange" in its other definition.
I know my mother tongue, I swear!

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[info]puipui
2007-04-03 06:08 pm UTC (link)
the little tool you can use for moving sugar cubes from the bowl to your cup

Sugar tongs! And it all comes full circle.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-04-02 08:02 pm UTC (link)
I've never seen a pair in action though I have numerous Victorian recipes that call for their use.

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[info]ashenmote
2007-04-02 08:12 pm UTC (link)
Never seen one either. I found the animation on a german page about the history of sugar cubes. :)

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[info]eljuno
2007-04-02 08:20 pm UTC (link)
a german page about the history of sugar cubes.

This kind of thing is why the internet ROCKS.

I never even considered the history of sugar cubes and now I wanna go research it.

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[info]ashenmote
2007-04-02 08:41 pm UTC (link)
Oh, appropriate icon!

Isn't it? My very reliable, if suitable for children, source says that in 1840 Juliane Rad hurt her finger on her sugar snips, bleeded on her expensive sugar and said "wouldn't it be nice if sugar came in little cubes instead of big loafs, darling?" to her husband who happened to be the owner of a sugar factory and started experimenting.

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[info]onyxnoir
2007-04-03 08:53 am UTC (link)
You can still purchase them. :D


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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-04-04 12:31 am UTC (link)
Cool! I can get loaves of palm sugar at the local Asian grocery, too. . .hmm.

{*eyes Victorian cookbooks*}

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[info]onyxnoir
2007-04-04 12:47 am UTC (link)
Hee!

Doo eet! You know you want to. XD

Do we get to sample the yummy results?

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-04-04 01:34 am UTC (link)
Alas, baked goods are awfully hard to put on the internet.

One day, the technology shall be ours!

I have thousands of recipes at my disposal in the meantime, if anyone needs any. Anyone? Bueller? I have to justify my cookbook addiction somehow!

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[info]onyxnoir
2007-04-04 06:00 am UTC (link)
*looks at own growing collection*

I'll get right to work on the baked goods thing. Right after I figure out how to smack people over a standard internet connection.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-04-04 02:39 pm UTC (link)
I'm working on Dalek Delivery myself. Need to be exterminated? We send a self-detonating Dalek through the internet to help clear out the gene pool! All the destruction, twice the satisfaction.

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