Posted on 03/06/2015 12:08:09 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: This is ABC News out of Chicago. "Do you brew your coffee using those Keurig K-Cups? The man who invented it is ashamed of his achievement. John Sylvan told The Atlantic that he sometimes regrets his invention because it creates too much waste and is bad for the environment. 'I feel bad sometimes that I ever (invented the K-Cup),' Sylvan said. 'I don't have one. They're kind of expensive to use. Plus it's not like drip coffee is tough to make.'
"How expensive? A 12 pack of Folgers K-Cups, for example, sells for about $6.72, giving you about 4 ounces of coffee. In comparison, a 33-ounce container of Folgers Classic Roast Ground Coffee sells for about $8. That's eight times the amount of coffee for nearly the same price."
So you see the K-Cup maker is ripping you off all to shreds.
"But most Americans don't seem to care about the cost or the environmental impact of K-Cups. The Atlantic says K-Cup brewers are now in one in three American homes. 'It's like a cigarette for coffee, a single-serve delivery mechanism for an addictive substance,' Sylvan said."
Ah, ah, ah, ah. We've now learned that coffee's so good for us. Anyway, it's just classic. Here we have the inventor who has been overcome with guilt, overcome with guilt over his thoughtless and destructive invention. It never ceases to amaze me. We have one of these. I was gonna bring it in here and actually destroy it on the Dittocam just to show my solidarity with the inventor of the thing.
Do any of you use it? You know, the only time I use it is if I'm first here and the coffee's not ready. I refuse to make my own coffee. I've risen above that, okay? I refuse to make my own coffee, so we got a K-Cup thing in there and if I'm the first to arrive and I just want to make one cup until whoever makes the coffee gets here, that's when I use it. And you know how often that happens? Maybe once a month.
The first time I ran into a K-Cup machine was at a hotel room in Indianapolis. It wasn't that long ago, five or six years. I'd never heard of the thing. I thought it was one of the most brilliant inventions ever and we immediately set out to try to secure the guys as an advertiser. We found out they're a bunch of commie libs, and there was no way. And now we know. (laughing)
Thank God Henry Ford didn't have this problem. Thank God Steve Jobs never had this problem. Can you imagine if Jobs had said, "Oh, my God, throw away your iPhone. I feel so guilty over inventing the iPhone. It's nothing but an environmental hazard and disaster."
I don't even use it.
All right, folks. Little did you know, the whole idea, the societal norm, quote, unquote, of eating three meals a day is racist.
"Senior editor at Mother Jones wants you to know that you should stop eating three meals a day for reasons including the fact that it is 'racist.' Yes -- she actually uses the word 'racist:' 'Dogmatic adherence to mealtimes is anti-science, racist, and might actually be making you sick,' proclaims the subhead to Kiera Butler’s Wednesday article, titled 'Why You Should Stop Eating Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.' Here is her reasoning: When the Europeans --" It's always their fault. It's always the fault of the Europeans.
And wait 'til you hear what Calypso Louie said in a sermon the other day to his troops at the Nation of Islam. Actually, it's not much different than what Obama is doing, but when Calypso Louie talks about it, it sounds much more extreme and dramatic.
Okay, here's her reasoning. "When the Europeans came over to the United States, they ate three meals a day whereas the Native Americans ate in a less restricted fashion -- a practice which Butler claims the Europeans considered to be unrefined."
So here we have these white Europeans, they show up here in the New World, which is just fine, it's pristine. You have the Native Americans, the Indians, and they are at one with nature, and they aren't doing anything except killing each other now and then. And they're abusing the buffalo, but we don't talk about that. Had there been elephants here they would have been abused the elephants to boot, but the elephants hadn't arrived here yet because Ringling Bros. hadn't brought 'em over.
So it was just the Native Americans, just the Indians, and they were flawless, they were perfect, they were just the absolute perfect inhabitants of the New World. And here came Columbus and da Gama and all of these evil white devils, and they brought with 'em a bunch of sordid habits, a bunch of destructive traditions, all encapsulated in racism. So when the Europeans came to the US they ate three meals a day and they looked at the Native Americans eating only when they felt like it, and they thought that was unsophisticated, and they thought that was unrefined. And they thought, "My God, this place is inhabited by a bunch of savages, so we're gonna have to bring 'em in to the New World."
"Kiera Butler offered excerpts of an email interview with Abigail Carroll, author of the book Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal, as proof of this point. 'The eating schedule of the native tribes --'" Remember, now, those who were entitled to be here. They were perfect. They were of color, they were pristine, and they didn't destroy anything. I mean, they were just ideal. And so, "The eating schedule of the native tribes was less rigid … the Europeans took this as 'evidence that natives were uncivilized.'" This is in an e-mail from this Abigail Carroll to the writer of The Atlantic story named Kiera Butler.
"She said that Carroll told her that the Europeans believed that 'civilized people ate properly and boundaried their eating, thus differentiating themselves from the animal kingdom, where grazing is the norm.'" See how this all plays out now? The white Europeans, a bunch of superiorists. The white Europeans, a bunch of elitists. They came over here and what'd they do? They immediately began judging what they found. And as they began judging, they began to be critical of what they found, and this is when the roots of all modern evil began.
"So, basically -- if you organize your eating around breakfast, lunch and dinner, you are perpetuating the racist belief that Native Americans are savage animals." You are perpetuating the racist idea that Native Americans are savage animals. That is in The Atlantic. It's not in some cockeyed, kooky, obscure publication. It's a mainstream publication. It's gonna be cited by some college professor, or a series of 'em, and you're gonna have people running around actually articulating this. They're gonna end up believing it, and it's gonna become yet another indictment of white Europeans and therefore the information will be used to discredit the entire discovery, meme, and narrative of the New World.
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I went over to the AeroPress office. Thought I might buy one.
Too complicated!!
But the Aerobie Sprint Ring was really cool! Got one for my kid...almost as good as the lights on the Keurig!
Exactly. Just like Buffett and all the other hypocritical Lib millionaires, he waits until his money is in the bank to piss and moan about the evils of consumerism and making money.
Probably true.
But I make 8 cups every morning, go through them by 11.
Then I gotta go cold turkey or no sleep until midnight...!!
So feed the poor only one meal a day or so, like the Native Americans?
I haave been buying 80 at a time from a store called OLLIE’S for $25. You gotta’be a moron to pay that much for 12. You deserve to buy your coffee at StarPlucks if your that silly.
Old joke: A hunter is afield with his Indian guide in the North Woods. He stops, checks his watch, and says "It is 12 o'clock. Let's stop for lunch."
The Indian looks at him for a moment, then says "White man crazy. Look at watch to see if he is hungry."
I told this joke to a bunch of Indian programmers just before a conference. They broke up and thought it was funny. The black supervisor just GLARED at me. (shrug)
Get a Bella Espresso brewer for about 40 bucks. Fill the pot full of water. Fill the ground holder half full of coffee.
The perfect large cup of coffee and one cup at a time in about the same amount of time as a 2 year old Keurig. Easier than Mr Coffee, cheaper than any coffee, no waste, and no plastic going into the environment.
Sarcasm? They mean 4 ounces of ground coffee in a 12 pack of K-cups. But, you must have known that.
You don’t have to use the K cups if you have the reusable coffee pods and you can use your regular coffee with them
Yes. Those reusable filters that fit the Kuering are the way to go. Saves a TON of money. And waste.
Word is the inventor only got about $50K for it.
Those who have Brinks truck amounts from it are moving on to v2.0, which has DRM to ensure others don’t infringe on those trucks without approval.
Also, I prefer fresh coffee. Coffee which has sat on the burner for 3 or 4 hours isn’t worth drinking IMO.
The K Cups always give you a fresh brew.
Depends on what you consider waste. My research indicates that the AeroPress requires more coffee [dry measure] per cup, than say, any given drip style.
I like my FP, but the cleanup sort of encourages the ease of the programmable drip during the week.
Basically a cup made of cookie dough and lined with white chocolate/sugar combo to slow down the crumbling.
Probably rice or soy paper for the KFC logo too.
I want coffee for the drugs.
So if I want a mug of coffee, now, I don’t fool around.
Instant coffee. I buy in bulk.
I also use it for developing film.
People who want tasty coffee are racists.
We have at least one of those single-serve reusable gizmos at home but what's the point if you're microgrinding your own coffee to load individually into the thing that you've gotta rinse out when you're done? Might as well just make a pot of coffee with a #4 filter.
What the Keurig system is great for is the office environment where you can't grind your own coffee. At our office, it's either use the Keurig and have good disposable coffee or you can enjoy the wretched Yuban® crap that comes in industrial packaging from our institutional S.E. Rykoff supplier for use in this big lousy breakroom coffee maker that has hard water scale deposits and ancient coffee pots that look like they were piulled from the post-apocalyptic rubble of WWIII.
Moreover, you go into the breakroom after 3pm and you find that the facilities cleaning lady turned everything off and the coffee pots are sitting in the nasty breakroom sink filled with blue Dawn dishwashing detergent water.
Yeah, like I stated to another poster just a moment ago, everyone has the refillable single-use K-Cup gizmo but very few people actually use the thing. It's just too much like filling up a bong load plus you have to rinse out all the messy coffee granules when you're done. Forget that.
We have some goofy lady at work who pre-packs a few of those single-use K-cup thingies in her dainty little lunch box to use in our Keurig machine and then washes it out down the sink in the breakroom at the end of the day. Makes me wince with the creepiness of it all, and I have a firm personal ethic of not doing anything suggestive of being the creepy fruity person in the workplace. I'd rather die than use the bathroom at work, for instance.
I drink 1-2 cups of coffee in the Morning before rushing off to work. The Keurig save a lot of time and effort. You can get different sized servings depending upon how strong the blend is and how strong you like your coffee. You can also buy it in bulk at Sam’s Club.
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