High-Priced Coffee

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Joe Varo wonders:
> Maybe I'm not enough of a coffee conniseur, or maybe my taste buds have
> been deadened by Chase & Sanborn, Folgers, etc., but I just don't
> understand why anyone would pay $2.50 for a cup of coffee.

Indeed, one can ask why anybody would drink coffee at all, considering
it's not exactly a necessity of life, but I find it's not really the
coffee but the company (of friends and strangers).  Where else can you
have a cup of coffee, watch people, read a book or hang out with friends
for a buck or two (heh)? It's a cheap indulgence.

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -Paulo Freire