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Thursday, July 21, 2005
Box o' Joe Challenge
I owed a friend in the U.S - The Enigma of Bellevue as he is known - a coffee. Actually I owe him 100 coffee's, but that's another story. The deal is that the coffee's can be taken any time and can be any type or size.
We were in Boston and we went to Dunkin Donuts, the omnipresent chain store in the East Coast that has seemingly reinvented itself as a cafe chain in the years between my last visit to the States.
I noticed in D.D's a product called the Box o' Joe. It's a cardboard box with a plastic bladder inside with a nozzle at the bottom (it resembles wine casks that are sold in Australia). It contains 10 cups (110oz / 3.25 litres).
It is meant to be for multiple users, say for an office, but I said to the Enigma that it can count as one coffee, as long as it's consumed in one go.
Of course, he took up the challenge. I bought the box and we went to the Boston Common.
On the box it says best consumed within one hour. Sure enough my friend the remorseless coffee drinking machine drank it all in half that time - 11 cups in all with the addition of milk.
So there, in the most appropriate of American cities, the Box o' Joe challenge began.
(The writer and editor of this site does not endorse such activities nor will be held responsible for people hospitalised for caffeine related injuries.)
We were in Boston and we went to Dunkin Donuts, the omnipresent chain store in the East Coast that has seemingly reinvented itself as a cafe chain in the years between my last visit to the States.
I noticed in D.D's a product called the Box o' Joe. It's a cardboard box with a plastic bladder inside with a nozzle at the bottom (it resembles wine casks that are sold in Australia). It contains 10 cups (110oz / 3.25 litres).
It is meant to be for multiple users, say for an office, but I said to the Enigma that it can count as one coffee, as long as it's consumed in one go.
Of course, he took up the challenge. I bought the box and we went to the Boston Common.
On the box it says best consumed within one hour. Sure enough my friend the remorseless coffee drinking machine drank it all in half that time - 11 cups in all with the addition of milk.
So there, in the most appropriate of American cities, the Box o' Joe challenge began.
(The writer and editor of this site does not endorse such activities nor will be held responsible for people hospitalised for caffeine related injuries.)
Posted by James Clark - editor of itravelnet.com
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