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 can’t imagine a K-Cup size coffee. A couple the size of D-cups are enough for me.
My kid loves Keurigs cuz they have lots of cool lights and it’s fun to run a single cup through.
But the inventor is right. Too expensive for a cup of coffee.
Which is why I bought a boring Bunn with the fast heat option, get 10 cups in 3 minutes through good ‘ol drip filter.
High Blood Pressure on the fast track.
They are only getting .33 ounces of coffee per per cup? I think they are doing it wrong.
The relativism is absolute silliness. There isn’t much to stop someone from living in the woods as a hunter gatherer, but there is a strong reason why so few do. Even descendants of indigenous people do not live like their ancestors.
A book I enjoyed very much was, “The Ecological Indian.” In it, the author, Krech, came to the horrid conclusion that native people were, well, people, with all of the goodness and badness associated with every other human. What I enjoy even more than the book are the silly, hateful comments on Amazon concerning this book by people who will eschew faith but deify a tribe.
K-cup coffee brewing is presently the preferred method of coffee brewing for our Kabul based troops in Afghanistan .
Very user friendly , the k-cups are supply chain handy as well
I doubt Sylvan will give back the Brinks truck amount of money he’s made on this. Like all good liberals he’ll keep his money but say he feels guilty for what he’s done. Feelings and good intentions mean more than action to the left. How long have we seen these limousine liberals do this? Forever....
They really should make the entire K-cup cartridge entirely bio-degradable. I don't think it would be that hard, and some companies already make K-cups that are about 90% compostable.
I'm pretty sure they could make a K-cup entirely out of corn starch like the packing material that replaced styrofoam peanuts. Strengthen the top indexing ring with bio-degradable soy glue. Sounds like a pretty significant business opportunity, actually.
Whoever invents that is the next multi-millionaire.
Too expensive if you want 6 or 8 cups of coffee.
Cheaper if you only want 1.
When he gives away the profits he made from it and goes back to his previous standard of living, I'll start taking him seriously.
I use 10-12 ounces of water in a Hamillton Beach coffee maker that accepts K-cups and the coffee comes out just fine.
But I only want 1 cup.
After working thru a literal dozen coffee makers (including 2 Keurigs), I’ve settled on how to make an excellent cup fast using an AeroPress ($30 device, makes 1 cup, negligible waste) - though I thoroughly sympathize with those using a Keurig and its “insert pod, push button” simplicity & speed.
Best is a vacuum brewer, but that’s a devoted half-hour of work.
I forget where I purchased it, but I bought a three-pack of refillable replacement filters (plastic and metal) to use in our Keurig. I put a scoopful (I guess it’s about a teaspoon and a half or thereabouts) of medium ground coffee into one and put it in the filter, and place that in the Keurig. It does the same thing but you can buy a can of whatever type of coffee you prefer and use that. My wife is the only one in the house that drinks coffee, so it’s as economical as a drip or perculator machine but it makes a fresh cup each time.
Hey! The latest health news is that coffe is good for you ... that is ... if you drink over three cups a day! Really! That’s what is the latest.
For GOOD HEALTH, you need at least three cups a day! Really!
You can get bio-degradable single serve cups but they are not made by Keurig. I use those mostly and can get them shipped. They still cost more than a pot of coffee but mostly I don’t want to make a pot of coffee.
I also have the single serve which I fill with my own coffee. And that doesn’t cost any more than a regular cup.
Just about everything is racist now.
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