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Starbucks launched a pork-flavored coffee in China. It costs $10 and is dividing people.
Business Insider ^ | 02/21/2024 | Huileng Tan

Posted on 02/23/2024 6:14:03 AM PST by Bon of Babble

Starbucks' drink costs $10, and even the company says the taste is "surprising."

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"Starbucks said the coffee is a combination of espresso and 'Dongpo pork; sauce, referring to a braised pork named after a famous 11th-century poet. Steamed milk is added to the beverage before it's drizzled with more pork sauce."
1 posted on 02/23/2024 6:14:03 AM PST by Bon of Babble
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To: Bon of Babble
Drink up, coffee fans!

Probably tastes better than regular Starbucks coffee (which tastes burned IMHO).

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2 posted on 02/23/2024 6:15:15 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Bon of Babble

Nothing divides people like Pork.


3 posted on 02/23/2024 6:16:18 AM PST by xoxox
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To: Bon of Babble

A friend described it best, I think: ‘tastes like brake fluid.’

Somehow, I know he is right.


4 posted on 02/23/2024 6:17:04 AM PST by xoxox
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To: Bon of Babble

The Bible says the pig is unclean.


5 posted on 02/23/2024 6:17:18 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork

The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.


6 posted on 02/23/2024 6:18:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Daveinyork

Com’o islam, kick China’s @ss !


7 posted on 02/23/2024 6:40:17 AM PST by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: Bon of Babble

🤢🤢


8 posted on 02/23/2024 6:43:36 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: xoxox

Ha! Indeed!


9 posted on 02/23/2024 6:45:41 AM PST by drwoof
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To: Bon of Babble

I’m guessing they aren’t going to market it in the middle east?


10 posted on 02/23/2024 6:52:37 AM PST by Bob434
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To: dfwgator

Rates right up there with cream of sum yung gy.


11 posted on 02/23/2024 6:56:58 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Bon of Babble

I’ll just stir my coffee with a piece of bacon!


12 posted on 02/23/2024 7:50:00 AM PST by arizonarick
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To: Bob434

In Israel?


13 posted on 02/23/2024 8:19:59 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Bon of Babble
Love pork.

Love coffee.

This... no.

14 posted on 02/23/2024 8:21:32 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Daveinyork

maybe there too- Some of the traditional jews don’t eat pork-


15 posted on 02/23/2024 8:38:26 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

It’s in the Bible.


16 posted on 02/23/2024 11:07:36 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork

“It’s in the Bible.”

So is stoning your sister because she wore two different kinds of cloth.

You gonna do that, too?

L


17 posted on 02/23/2024 11:09:47 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Sprinkle with real bacon bits too?


18 posted on 02/23/2024 11:34:41 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
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