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WanderingEng  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Climate change is starting to become a real hinderance on coffee production

    mocha cookie crumble frap

The types of places that cater to people who order drinks like that will simply replace the coffee portion with an artificially flavored caffeinated syrup. It's the purists who will suffer most, whether it's black coffee, cream and sugar or a traditional espresso drink.

I assume your comment is a bit tongue in cheek, and broadly I think you're right. If it was coffee alone, it wouldn't spur people to change. But if it's coffee on top of hotter and drier summers, shorter but more bitterly cold winters and loss of other crop types (even without famine), people might start to take notice. I don't think any one event will swing public consciousness, it will be the sum of many things.

I like my coffee but I like my pleasant weather more.





TheVenerableCain  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hold on. Let's take a step back. The Mocha Cookie Crumble Frap is fucking delicious. I would get so fat on those every day if I my pancreas wouldn't immediately check out and also it wasn't $50 for one of them.

user-inactivated  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, but if overnight it stopped being available would you find yourself in an existential crisis?

TheVenerableCain  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Of course. Did you know that the Mocha Cookie Crumble Frap (praise be) is only available during the summer? It's like we're living in the Dark Ages.

user-inactivated  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·  

brb, gotta go re-evaluate my life choices now.