The New York Times reports that in a rash of firebombings in the city this past Sunday, the vessel of choice of the perpetrator was not beer bottles, not mason jars, but rather the “dainty, 9.5-ounce glass containers” of the popular Starbucks Frappuccino drink.
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The irony of this was too delicious to not point out. According to the article:
Starbucks is often in the cross-hairs of anarchists for its success as a
multinational coffee giant, so it is somewhat of a twist that one of
its products finds itself on the other end of violence.Starbucks did not immediately reply to inquiries Tuesday about the use of Frappuccino bottles in the firebombings.
A retired New York Police Bomb Squad technician was even quoted as saying the bottles are actually the “perfect container”
for a firebomb.
“They are excellent for what you need because it is a weak-sided bottle
with a screw-on cap. It is small enough to be
concealed in your pocket, and it fits in your hand, so you can throw it
almost like a Nerf football. It's a small projectile you can get a good
grip on and you can toss it.”
Good to know . . . and then there's the fact that after drinking a few, your aim would probably be way better than if you had gone with beer.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.