Of all the ridiculous things that make it in the news Starbucks got into 'hot water' when some interest group found out that they are using beetle juice to add color to the pink concoctions sold at their outlets. Now beetle juice to a ghati or desi of certain persuasion might mean the deep reds left to dry on railway stations or public spaces where an errant truant has used the space as their personal spitoon. This after chewing on beetle nut and calcium powder squeezed between beetle leaves.
What the largest coffee company resturant got into trouble was the actual use of the bug - not the car - the critter, specifically its ground up extracts that have the ability to lend a pinkish hue to the beverage that contains it.
Frankly all the moronic people that want to consume the IT brand run the risk of consuming a hitherto unknown quantity of chemicals or substance which is what makes it new and unique. But we do not know this when we buy and now want a piece of the action through a potential class action. Class idiocy more like!
Many such examples continue to make the headlines what with McD still unable to get out off being sued for old hack like scalding an unattentive person Again when said unattentive and likely brainless person dumped the beverage on self instead of proceeding to drink it as is expected.
Then there is the new and improved cola wars that have gone to a head with intrusive style of advertising boinging its way into a web site that you are perusing. These pop ups boast more taste, more kick, less sugar and same great COLA taste. I mean have people not got over COLAting themselves already?
Then there are the newest of teas - right - not coffees but teas sold through outlets sold like Teavana - some Nirvana through moderated caffiene dosing. Coffee has taken on a new format too through one time use flavored coffee cups called K cups - I know they had to find a letter not used by the women underwear industry otherwise we would have had a serious tempest in a cup!
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
Why this Colaveri Di (after the new Indian national anthem) should be the Cola Giants' stolen tagline- position the cola as the solution to the angst, of course..
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