Small Rant About Peet’s Coffee
Due in large part to their heavenly spicy ginger cookies, I usually head straight for Peet’s Coffee and ignore the many Starbucks I see everyday. Occasionally, I order some frou-frou coffee drink but I generally stick to a basic order: a spicy ginger cookie and a large iced coffee. Peet’s trounces Starbucks in the cookie department, but Starbucks does their iced coffee better for one reason: they pour already cold coffee over the ice. At every Starbucks that I’ve ordered an iced coffee, the barista (read: employee) has placed ice in a cup, then poured coffee from a clear container stored in a refrigerator. At every Peet’s I’ve been to, the barista (see above) has placed ice in a cup, then poured coffee directly from the freshly-brewed coffee taps! This results in mostly melted ice floating in what results as lukewarm, watered-down coffee! No! The spicy ginger cookie does a great job of making me overlook this, but it irks me every time.
On a completely unrelated note, I watched Smokey And The Bandit again a couple of weeks ago. I hadn’t watched the movie in years, and this viewing reacquainted me with what I consider to be one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. Burt Reynolds is the star, but Jackie Gleason steals the scene every time. Here’s a scene I particularly enjoy:
