Berkeley May Ban Non-PC Coffee (gag alert!)

WKMG/Orlando - CFNow.com ^ | 6.18.02

[mhking]

Berkeley May Ban Non-PC Coffee

If Measure Passes, Violators Could Get Jail Time

Posted: 11:17 a.m. EDT June 18, 2002

BERKELEY, Calif. -- How about some sugar and cream with that coffee? Or maybe you'd like some "PC" coffee instead?

Some folks in Berkeley, Calif., are calling for only "politically correct coffee" to be sold inside the city limits.

Attorney Rick Young has turned in 3,000 signatures at City Hall. They support an initiative allowing coffee brewed for sale to be made only from organic, shade-grown or Fair Trade certified beans.

To qualify the measure for the November ballot, just over 2,000 of those signatures must be valid.

If the measure makes it to the ballot and is approved -- retailers will have three months to comply. Violators could be punished by up to six months in jail and a $100 fine.

[SunStar]

Berkeley is ground zero for insanity.

[RepoGirl]

I think this is really funny in a sad, stomach churning way. It might just be fun to just sit back and watch the idiots up in Beserkley eventually just ban themselves out of existance...

[norraad]

'Party on Garth"

[He Rides A White Horse]

I did a doubletake, then looked to see if this was something from "The Onion".......

......it wasn't.

[GoreIsLove]

OBEY YOUR ACTIVIST BETTERS

[End Times Sentinel]

I don’t claim to be an expert on coffee, but recently I was in a gourmet grocery store and was noticing where all the imported coffees came from: Tanzania, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Columbia, etc. I don’t think there was one variety that wasn’t grown in some God forsaken hell-hole.

There must be something about the coffee tree that it thrives under the normally suffocating cloak of tyranny and is quenched by the blood of innocents.

That being said, is there really a P.C. coffee?

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Republicus2001]

and PC coffee is probably the Saudi-owned chain Caribou Coffee, right? I presume that the Schwartz-owned Starbucks is VERBODEN! N'est pas?

[kidd]

How about some sugar and cream with that coffee?

Sugar??? Not from farms that use migrant workers!
Cream??? Not from cows that are raised on farms!
Furthermore, the coffee should by heated by renewable sources, such as solar.
And, the coffee should be delivered by electric powered trucks.
Only union labor should be used to pour the coffee

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

I don’t claim to be an expert on coffee, but recently I was in a gourmet grocery store and was noticing where all the imported coffees came from: Tanzania, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Columbia, etc. I don’t think there was one variety that wasn’t grown in some God forsaken hell-hole.

There must be something about the coffee tree that it thrives under the normally suffocating cloak of tyranny and is quenched by the blood of innocents.

Can I submit a candidate for Post of the Day?

[LaBradford22]

Oh well. I've resigned to the fact that we're all going to die because of Political Correctness. This is just further proof that you can't stop the PC tidal wave.

[NativeNewYorker]

The most environmentally destructive, politically incorrect crop is, of course, marijuana.

Illegally armed men fence off pristene public land in California wilderness to grow crops they sell for cash, never paying taxes.

And in BC, enormously environmentally destructive energy intensive private covert greenhouses are used for the cash crop.

/sarcasm

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Scratch a Leftist, you ALWAYS find a fascist just under the skin...

[caisson71]

Kona coffe is the only coffee grown in the US, non-union, independent growers, mostly mom & pop farms, sun ripened, locally processed and label protected.

[mhking]

That being said, is there really a P.C. coffee?

Yes -- the rarest and most expensive coffee in the world could probably be classified as PC, simply because of it's source. It's called Kopi Luwak, and only a handful of companies sell it. From RavensBrew.com:

"The Luwak (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) denizen of the coffee (kopi) plantations of Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi, eats only the ripest coffee cherries.

Unable to digest the coffee beans the Luwak graciously deposits them on the jungle floor where they are eagerly collected by the locals.

The stomach acids and enzymatic action involved in this unique fermentation process produces the beans for the world’s rarest coffee beverage."

And no, this isn't from The Onion - it really exists.

And no, I haven't tasted it.

I don't plan to either, so if anyone else does, you can let me know.

[mhking]

Brings new meaning to one of my favorite phrases, "full of used food..."

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

This has to be a joke. ALL coffee is grown in the shade. The small coffee trees cannot take direct sunlight and produce saleable coffee beans. Coffee is also grown at higher elevations as opposed to sea level; hence, one sees that BS about mountain grown as if it were something special to that particular coffee. He dicho!

[Risky Schemer]

Scratch a Leftist, you ALWAYS find a fascist just under the skin...

It's so weird, the way the '60s radicals and hippies, who were protesting and resisting the constraints of "The Establishment," have become more oppressive and stricture-oriented in every way except for non-heterosexual sex. And even in that they can be seen as oppressive towards those who do not approve of (or even participate in) non-heterosexual sex.

[SGCOS]

Isn't organic coffee fertilized with cow manure and chicken sh!t?

They deserve it.