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K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system
CBC News ^ | January 27, 2015 | Pete Evans

Posted on 03/06/2015 4:16:12 PM PST by rickmichaels

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so, and he can't understand the popularity of the products that critics decry as an environmental catastrophe.

John Sylvan worked at Keurig in the 1990s when he devised a simple product that could create a small mug of coffee out of a plastic pod. Originally aiming it at office workers, Sylvan said he thought the product might have some limited appeal to people who would normally go Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts or other coffee chains in the morning, because now they could get a cup of coffee at work that was cheaper, faster, and no fuss.

"That would make it environmentally neutral, because you wouldn't have those Starbucks cups [everywhere]," Sylvan told the CBC's As It Happens in an interview. "The first market was the office coffee service market," he said, adding he is "absolutely mystified" by his product's popularity in homes.

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To: rickmichaels

Environmental disaster! Mountain of cups! What a load of hooey. What a smarmy condescending interviewer.


21 posted on 03/06/2015 5:05:09 PM PST by bunnie911 (“But resist, we much…we must…and we will much…about…that...be committed.”)
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To: rickmichaels

The #2 Melitta system fits in the Kuerig machine on a standard mug.


22 posted on 03/06/2015 5:14:32 PM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: rickmichaels

I own the old-fashioned Melitta cone that fits over a coffee cup, that utilizes a paper filter of size. I, either, heat up water in a Pyrex measuring cup, or my Corningware teapot.

I watched this machine come out on QVC, touted as the latest means to brew coffee, and now more, for the ridiculous price of $100.00. Those k-cups, of late, have been seen on the shelves, for $14 for 12. A standard container of ground coffee, which renders, at one scoop each, 30 or more cups, at the most I’ve seen is $7.

As it was, i watched all those machines go flying off the QVC warehouse shelves, at that ridiculous price, for something to brew coffee!!

Now, the creator of this invention, doesn’t use it, and has regrets creating it.


23 posted on 03/06/2015 5:16:48 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: rickmichaels

Singing “Take the money and run”!

Greedy liberal coward!


24 posted on 03/06/2015 5:26:42 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: rickmichaels

Our wino counties are loaded with second and third generation trust fund babies.

They hate capitalism and America. They support the rats.

None of them would ever donate their trust funds to a good charity and then go to work to make a living.


25 posted on 03/06/2015 5:30:51 PM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: rickmichaels
Now it's time to apply Keurig technology to beer.


26 posted on 03/06/2015 5:36:37 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: rickmichaels

Keurig means NEAT in Dutch.


27 posted on 03/06/2015 5:39:29 PM PST by golf lover (goingf)
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To: KosmicKitty

“Wonder if he regrets his other invention..Easy Widers rolling papers.”

Wow, did he really invent those too? They are excellent, er, as I recall!


28 posted on 03/06/2015 5:43:26 PM PST by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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To: RginTN

Cold brew....much better.


29 posted on 03/06/2015 5:46:16 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: rickmichaels

Is he still taking the royalties?

He didn’t say anything about the money. A typical radical rat...


30 posted on 03/06/2015 5:49:30 PM PST by ADSUM
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To: rickmichaels

Did he invent the Atom Bomb too? Oh the regret. LOL

This is News, really? Did Skynet send some of those K Cups back in time to end the Human Race too?


31 posted on 03/06/2015 5:52:28 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Tagline under review by the United States Supreme Court.)
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To: kaehurowing

I bought a RO drinking water system..

Now I make her bottle her own ;)


32 posted on 03/06/2015 6:08:00 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: rickmichaels

Put a 5 cent return on the K-cups Environmental problem solved


33 posted on 03/06/2015 6:37:02 PM PST by Joshua (Jimmy is the reason for this)
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To: kaehurowing

You haven’t tasted west Texas tap water have you?


34 posted on 03/06/2015 6:39:26 PM PST by biff (Et Tu Boeh-ner)
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To: FiddlePig

That’s what I do, all the grounds go into the compost heap and about a year later into the vegetable garden.


35 posted on 03/06/2015 6:43:19 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: kaehurowing
You might want to let your wife know that all that Label Water comes out of the municipal tap.
All she has to do is look up the production company.
36 posted on 03/06/2015 6:45:48 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

To hell with that; tell him to send it to me, I will put it to a GOOD USE.


37 posted on 03/06/2015 6:47:54 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Eagles6

Hey, did you know my MOM?


38 posted on 03/06/2015 6:49:11 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Terry L Smith

Actually they are pretty good machines; my wife bought me one 6 years ago when I retired up to the farm.
She also got me these little one cup screen filters to go with it, no paper filters to mess with and they can be washed and used over and over.
One 3 pound can of Folgers lasts me about 2 or 3 weeks.
I prefer my coffee one cup at a time because every time I would make a full pot by the time I drank it all it tasted burned and like crap.


39 posted on 03/06/2015 6:56:55 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB
Yeah, she played bridge with my Mom.

Remember how our Mom's would have card parties? We lived in the country and one night a week they would play cards at someone's house. Our phone was a party line and no, it had nothing to do with scantily clad women that just wanted to have fun.

No booze or porn or lgbtbltmsnbc bs. Just mothers having fun.

The wildest thing was the green jello with the shaved carrots.

40 posted on 03/06/2015 7:29:25 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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