A Storm Brews Over Coffee

May 17, 2008 at 11:46 pm

This …

Starbucks from Minneapolis Star Tribune

prompts this:

Seems that one person’s smut is another person’s morning latte.

A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee.

The Resistance says the new image “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news release. “Need I say more? It’s extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks.”

Smut?  Slut?  Dice?  That explains it.  We’ve been wondering what ever happened to Dice.

Maybe we should all go back to talking about Art Carney.  As in, chili con Carney.

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