Posted on 11/18/2010 6:15:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Brooklyn coffee shop is offering customers a real jolt: 10 shots of espresso in a single serving with the nickname "porn in a cup."
The Pulp & The Bean in the Crown Heights neighbourhood put the item on the menu Tuesday with the official name of Dieci, Italian for 10. The nickname comes from a sign advertising the drink outside the store, whose specialty item was first reported by the New York Daily News.
Shop owner Tony Fisher, 37, said sales were brisk in part because "nobody's ever had the chutzpah (audacity) to do anything like this before."
"This is for the person who wants to experience the limits of where coffee and espresso can go," he said of the drink, which weighs in at 20 ounces.
Fisher opened his shop specializing in latte coffee and chai tea about a year ago in a neighbourhood that has traditionally been split between Orthodox Jews and Caribbean immigrants but has seen an influx of young professionals and gays who make up the bulk of his clientele.
Fisher came up with the idea after finding that a double espresso was not enough.
"Sometimes I'll drink a double espresso and say to myself, 'I need another double.' And then another double will turn into another double. And I was like, why not drink a full cup?"
The beverage is not for everyone, especially considering such a large dose of caffeine can increase heart rate and blood pressure.
"I won't sell it to anybody in their '40s and up," Fisher said.
"I'll just tell them I can offer an alternative."
Isn't that illegal under the '64 civil rights act and court decisions based on it? I mean, that's discrimination! That inequality! That's evil!
The 1964 civil rights act was a bad idea. But maybe we really don't need property rights anyway.
I have a single regular coffee cup filled with expresso each morning.
Is that an “old fashioned” in a cup?
Your happy world ended when they had to serve Negros in Woolworths. Right?
I guess the older folks will just have to have some youngster make a straw purchase for them while they wait outside around the corner.
I see you missed the point entirely.
I love that mental image. Older folks hanging out near the store waiting to approach younger folks to make a straw purchase of coffee. “Hey kid, if you buy some coffee for us, we’ll make it worth your while.”
I'd appreciate it more if I wasn't one of those older folks....
While most of us cought the sarcasm it is still wise to add the “/sarc” just because.
Got to tell you, that his admission the he won’t sell to anyone over 40 says he knows that it is dangerous and culpable for any heart attacks induced by the consumption of his product.
I’m not sure it was sarcasim. I don’t think it was. I remember the first time I heard this point, and while instinctivly disagreeing with it - it does makes sense.
If the owner of a private business (Woolworths or a coffee store) does not want to serve someone - based on whatever, why are they not allowed to do that? While I wouldn’t agree with the owner to not allow blacks - why is that not his right? (Seems dumb though to turn away customers though).
On a Federal and State level that is a whole different thing (discrimination).
The Civil Rights Act should have only dealt with Government run facilities or Private Businesses that receive Government funding.
The Free Market will determine the availability of products or services. When one business doesn't serve the needs of a segment of society, another business will. Competition in a Free Market will always find its way, just like water finds its way.
That is why you never discuss Politics or Religion while operating a Retail Establishment. When you count the Receipts at the end of the day, you don't know or care which bills came from which customers.
cafe americano?
There was some sarcasm.
My point is that the government has stripped away our property rights.
Most people don’t agree with not serving blacks because they are black. I don’t agree with that.
However, the federal government has absolutely no business interfering in that decision. I don’t believe any government should interfere in that decision. If the business is your property, you have a right to run it the way you wish, even if that means you won’t serve black people because they are black or serve coffe to people over 40 because of their age. That’s unpopular, but isn’t that what it means to be free? Can’t you be free to be a dick?
The merchant willing to serve the black man and take his money will probably win in the marketplace in the end.
Now, since we live in the country we live in, we really don’t have property rights any more.
You are not king of your castle, as you really can’t do with your property as you wish.
Hell, the property tax makes us pretty much all serfs. Try not paying it and you’ll find out who really owns “your” property.
Meanwhile Mayor Bloomberg’s courtesy phone rings off the hooker.
What happened to the hooker? Is she dead? Was there a Kennedy nearby?
No.
Expresso with some cream and a little sugar.
I use an espresso grind Arabica
1 mugful
I use this in an expresso machine http://shop.melitta.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=60+180&Cat=
Glad I ordered a case the other month.
The price has doubled.
Being a non-coffee drinker, I must confess the whole upscale coffee thing has just flown right over my head. I keep a can of Folger’s around for company but that’s about it.
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