Another Check On Whether I’m Mad …
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January 23, 2008, 7:21 am
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Following on from my post about the charity SANE, does anyone else think a Black Tea Latte just sounds weird?
Yes … yes … I know black tea is a ‘variant’ but I can’t help thinking Starbucks are either embarking on one of their mental-concoction-experiments or just doing their usual naming-bollocks!
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It’s not black, it doesn’t look like tea and it can’t be a latte. Seems to capture the essence of the product uniquely.
Comment by John January 23, 2008 @ 7:52 amDidn’t you come to the conclusion that if you thought you were mad you weren’t and vice versa. Why aren’t you quitting while you’re ahead? 🙂
Comment by Pete January 23, 2008 @ 8:02 amDoes anyone really give a shit?
Comment by Billy Whizz January 23, 2008 @ 8:29 amYeah. Quit while you’re ahead Campbell. It’d be mad not too 😉
Comment by Charles Frith January 23, 2008 @ 9:26 amI’m mad me. I am!
Comment by Charles Frith January 23, 2008 @ 9:27 amCareful Charles, people who say that sort of thing tend to be the complete opposite – abit like those weekend warriors who tell all and sundry “they’re fookin crazeeeee” then go back to work on Monday as a junior clerk in an accountancy firm 🙂
Comment by Robert January 23, 2008 @ 9:31 amI have no recollection of that last comment. Strange….
Comment by Charles Frith January 23, 2008 @ 10:48 amAbsolutely Mental. Black tea latte!? Come on….
As a coffee lover, I feel offended.
And I’m surprised we don’t have streets riots over this, given the number of religiously tea-drinking Englishmen who’ve evidently seen this…Rob, Charles, John…
Comment by fredrik sarnblad January 23, 2008 @ 1:21 pmMaybe it’s because I’m half Italian, but my life has always been about coffee, hence I couldn’t really give a shit 🙂
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 1:39 pm“as a coffee lover, I feel offended”…. that’s the maddest fucking thing anyone has EVER said on this blog (except for maybe Lee and his corporate responsibility nonsense concerning the safety standards of his competitors).
Morning!
Comment by Marcus January 23, 2008 @ 3:36 pmHaving weighed up the options – I definitely think Fred wins the ‘maddest comment ever’ and it has nothing to do with the fact he no longer works for me whereas Lee keeps me in Frozen mini pizzas.
Comment by Robert January 23, 2008 @ 4:10 pmDo not mess with fucking tea. This is not funny. Feeling more than a little annoyed
Comment by northern January 23, 2008 @ 4:11 pmBut are you as annoyed as your boss was when you went to the wrong hotel, NP?
[And what’s all this ‘NORTHERN’ business?]
Comment by Robert January 23, 2008 @ 4:12 pmCome on NP, that “northern” stuff is just plain silly. NP is way cooler.
Comment by Marcus January 23, 2008 @ 4:20 pmNP is about as cool as The Smiths, but it’s still better than NORTHERN. 🙂
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 4:22 pmTo produce the maddest comment ever on this blog would be quite an achievement; something that would make me bizarrely proud, but I’m afraid my comment only goes to prove that I am the only true coffee lover in this weird and wonderful place.
Comment by fredrik sarnblad January 23, 2008 @ 4:41 pmYou are not a coffee lover Freddie – you are a coffee guzzler.
It’s not like you’re an afficiando [fuck knows how you spell that] you couldn’t give a damn what it is as long as it’s hot, strong and black.
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 4:43 pmOi Fred. I love proper coffee too. In fact, I think it’s high time I did some coffee stuff, Starbucks and co are beginning to vex me a bit.
Comment by northern January 23, 2008 @ 4:51 pmAnd I’ve posted about tea.
And I don’t care, Northern it is.
Macus was good too……
Comment by northern January 23, 2008 @ 4:51 pmHot, strong and black will do the trick on any given day, but I just want to make it crystal clear that we’re talking about coffee only, not African men.
Comment by fredrik sarnblad January 23, 2008 @ 4:53 pmInteresting you say that Fred – because as we all know, you can have hot, strong, black women.
Me thinks you protesteth too much. But then who can blame you when this is in the blogosphere …
http://doesfredlookgaytoday.wordpress.com
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 4:55 pmDoes anyone actually give a shit about tea? Tea is a thing you drink when you are ill. Peppermint is you have a cold. Black tea only if you are really mentally sick.
Comment by Seb January 23, 2008 @ 5:02 pmThough it definitely is not the naming bollocks standard they have at Starbucks. Yesterday I had a Toffee Nut Semi Fat Latte. It not only sounds pretty gay but tastes like that as well. Thank you.
That site had already put me on the back foot Rob.
Comment by fredrik sarnblad January 23, 2008 @ 5:04 pmI’m sure NP will have an answer for you Seb.
Comment by fredrik sarnblad January 23, 2008 @ 5:05 pmis that a euphemism Fred?
Comment by John January 23, 2008 @ 5:05 pmWhy on earth would anyone buy a Toffee Nut Semi Fat Latte?
Seriously Seb, you and Fred should get a room! 🙂
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 5:13 pmOh Seb, I don’t even know where to start. I’ll just state that it’s the things we take for granted that make up the fabric of our lives. The more we appreciated them, the better.
Comment by northern January 23, 2008 @ 5:16 pmLike the average time it takes someone in the UK to choose a new bed is two and a half minutes – but we spend a third of our lives there and moan about being tired.
You take 2 and a half minutes before you’re moaning in bed. Is that right NP???
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 5:20 pmI took it because I like Toffee. And Nuts. Don’t make me say why it was semi-fat. You and me know the answer (Charles as well, that Spandexlike cotton tee he wore when I met him wasn’t hiding the truth). It was my first and last one. I am now in to mocca.
Comment by Seb January 23, 2008 @ 5:25 pmThat doesn’t make it better, right?
Comment by Seb January 23, 2008 @ 5:25 pmNot really Seb … but I let you off because you wrote a top comment about Mr Frith, hahaha!
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 5:33 pmHow is it that this blog goes from brilliant ideas to random weirdness so quickly…
Comment by Rob Mortimer January 23, 2008 @ 5:43 pmWhere the hell was the brilliant idea in this post Mr M? Come to think of it, where the hell is a brilliant idea in this whole blog!
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 5:58 pmThere were rumours of a sighting – but it’s not yet confirmed.
Comment by John January 23, 2008 @ 6:02 pmFurthermore isn’t that why we are all here? To ruin Rob’s ambitions to write interesting stuff by boldly sabotaging it with our childish weirdness…
Comment by Seb January 23, 2008 @ 6:03 pmWell you are all succeeding in your goal then Seb, ha!
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 6:09 pmI read about it in the National Enquirer…
Comment by Rob Mortimer January 23, 2008 @ 7:05 pmThe Family Guy episode with the vomiting contest comes to mind! Black tea latte? It’s a bit like tea prostitution now 🙁
Comment by deea January 23, 2008 @ 7:36 pmwell my last comment came out all wrong
Comment by Andrea January 23, 2008 @ 7:36 pmBut yet so right
Comment by northern January 23, 2008 @ 7:40 pmIf you think that’s bad Deea, you’d better not come and live in Asia because Black Tea Latte is probably the nicest of the fucking mental concoctions that go on here.
Monkey Brain Mushroom? Pig Organ Soup? Frog Gland Dessert?
I rest my stomach-churning case 🙂
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 8:25 pmOh … and a big hello to both Deea and Andrea. Not that you’re likely to, but please come again – as I said to Moxy earlier, we desperately need the influence of women on this blog.
Comment by Rob January 23, 2008 @ 8:26 pmEh, sorry about the mix up, my brain has been working at hyperspeed lately, I end up mixing too many languages when I speak
I’m a fan of green tea myself, I’ve tried a green tea flavoured latte and I felt like my stomach was on fire for the next couple of hours. Black tea on the other hand…
I wouldn’t mind trying any of those weird asian concoctions, after green tea and coffee I think ostriches would be jealous of what I can bear. Liver and onion ice cream?
Comment by Andrea January 23, 2008 @ 9:21 pmLiver and onion ice cream? You belong on this blog Andrea 🙂
Comment by Pete January 24, 2008 @ 5:58 amStill, ice cold horlicks is one fantastic asian invention.
Comment by Rob Mortimer January 24, 2008 @ 5:34 pmI remember when Frapaccino was first brought to the UK by NESCAFE.
At the time I thought it was the most stupid idea ever – now it’s heaven in the mouth.
Comment by Rob January 24, 2008 @ 6:01 pmIs that an euphemism? Why not ‘party in your stomach’ or something 🙁
Comment by Andrea January 24, 2008 @ 11:24 pmCould Andrea be Andy in disguise?
Comment by Trusted Advisor Department January 25, 2008 @ 5:30 amThat would be one hell of a disguise T.A.D.
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