Log In

Home
    - Create Journal
    - Update
    - Download

LiveJournal
    - News
    - Paid Accounts
    - Contributors

Customize
    - Customize Journal
    - Create Style
    - Edit Style

Find Users
    - Random!
    - By Region
    - By Interest
    - Search

Edit ...
    - Personal Info &
      Settings
    - Your Friends
    - Old Entries
    - Your Pictures
    - Your Password

Developer Area

Need Help?
    - Lost Password?
    - Freq. Asked
      Questions
    - Support Area



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


Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
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.


(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)


[info]dragonfangirl
2007-04-03 10:28 am UTC (link)
Sure, get all the free water you like! But you'll be surprised- it's tap water, right out of the soda machine.

Am I the only person on the face of the planet who thinks that ordinary tap water tastes 10x better than bottled water?

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)


[info]slavekitty
2007-04-03 11:52 am UTC (link)
Nope, I don't like bottled water either. It tastes weird. I need my minerals and pollutants, darn it!

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)


[info]felinephoenix
2007-04-03 08:57 pm UTC (link)
Thirded. I think this means my water will kill me.

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]rimrunner
2007-04-04 02:22 am UTC (link)
It really depends on the source, I've found. Seattle tap water tastes fine, but I've been in cities where I thought the water tasted awful (Houston, for example).

And I've recently been to countries where drinking the tap water could turn out to be a really bad idea. Though in Thailand, nicer hotels with lots of foreign guests offer two kinds of bottles: the hotel brand, which is free, and the name brand, for which a charge of about $4 appears on your room bill.

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]lindentreeisle
2007-04-04 02:45 am UTC (link)
Actually, I was reading an article recently (forget where or I'd source it) that was about how, in the US at least, bottled water isn't regulated as strictly as tap water; the end result being, while tap water in most places is very safe, bottled water companies are sucking water from under industrial parking lots and shit and calling it "pure spring water" or whatever. Classy! Even more hilarious- a lot of these companies are getting their $1+/bottle fancy water from multiple sources including (zaaa!) tap water.

(I couldn't find the article I wanted but here's another that mentions a lot of the stuff I'm talking about. Or you can find more if you google +tap +bottled +water.)

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)


[info]the_clichemoth
2007-04-05 01:40 am UTC (link)
At least Wal-Mart admits it. Go read any label on their bottled water. It's tap water from somewhere in Tennessee and they don't even try to hide it.

One of my coworkers is fond of Fiji, so I just had to tell her that scientific tests proved that her fancy bottled water contained more arsenic than Cleveland tap water.

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]mistressrenet
2007-04-07 03:57 am UTC (link)
It depends on the quality of the tap water and bottled water. I'll pay extra to not drink chlorine taste.

(Reply to this)(Parent)


[info]suzycat
2007-04-08 10:18 am UTC (link)
Nope. Mind you, the tap water in my town is artesian water that pretty much came straight from mountaintops through some ground, so it's as good as Evian and Perrier anyway, apart from not being fizzy.

(Reply to this)(Parent)


(Read comments) -

 
   
Privacy Policy - COPPA
Legal Disclaimer - Site Map