Post #509120 by woofmutt on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 9:25 AM

Interesting point which raises the question: Does good coffee define a coffee shop?

Technically at its most basic a coffee shop is a shop that serves coffee. But if the coffee it serves is terrible then is the coffee shop failing at its most basic requirement? And does that failure negate its coffee shop status? Also what if the coffee shop uses sugar packets but the packets are the kind with scenic images or American presidents on them?

Then again, if a shop selling coffee is a coffee shop then all Starbuck's are coffee shop. Which, by what we believe a coffee shop to actually be, they're not. And their coffee sucks.

Dropping in for breakfast or a quick lunch is far more complicated than we ever realized. If only it were as easy as deciding whether a smuggler is a pirate or a pirate is a smuggler.

I mean, at least this is so obvious.

But in this case...

Who the hell really knows?