I guess this is week four of Bud Light’s self immolation.  They are currently marketing aluminum bottles with a camouflage print.  If I am not mistaken its a printed sleeve, which means the bottle is that much easier to collect its full recycling value!  Plus, I never got the appeal of the aluminum bottles.  Is it a bottle, a can?

No.  Lets combine everything we hate about both.

This is my review of Heretic Carmel Moo-Chiato:

Lets laugh at a communist shall we? (TW:  Outkick)

A coffee shop in Toronto that tried to stick it to capitalism by letting customers pay whatever they wanted has closed after one year in business.

No, one could have seen that one coming…

Fittingly enough, this place was called The Anarchist (Ooooooh, edgy…) and encouraged customers to pay whatever they could afford… at least for drip coffee. For anything else, you had to pay an actual price.

Even anarchists have bills to pay.

The cafe was eye-rollingly billed as an “anti-capitalist café, shop and radical community space on stolen land.” This meant that in addition to coffee and various cafe goods, it sold radical books, art, pins, and T-shirts to people who all probably hate their parents for one reason or another.

LOL

Seriously, this guy is a real piece of work.  He’s a few excerpts from the cafe’s FAQ page:

Most places I’ve worked, which all charged what I do now, didn’t make a penny for the first 2 years – not an option for someone starting a business with no funding and relying on it for their income – and even after that they live or die by their ability to sell $5-$6 croissants, merchandise, beans etc. So I picked prices that were the lowest I could afford, and that wouldn’t have to be increased as soon as rent kicks in after the 6 month grace period.

I hate how everything in specialty coffee is so inaccessible to working class people, and inhospitable to everyone but the white upper middle class. That’s why I started doing “pay what you can” drip coffee, which loses me money, but is subsidised by the more expensive drinks. That’s also why I continue to scrutinise my prices and look for opportunities to lower them. Maybe when the shop has a couple more workers, allowing us to make significantly more drinks per day, we’ll be able to do an across-the-board price cut. I don’t want to sacrifice quality, as sharing the delicious things I’ve been passionate about for over a decade with a more diverse group of people is part of why I’m doing this. But I do want to find ways to make it more affordable. Most baristas, myself included, literally could not afford the drinks they make if they didn’t get them free through work…

Yes, all of these FAQ responses are multiple paragraphs long.  On the question of ethically sourced coffee:

There is, of course, no ethical consumption under Capitalism. But we absolutely have a responsibility to find ways to break out of the unethical paths of least resistance laid down for us. I currently work with a very small number of very small, independent roasters. Those roasters are people I know care about the ethics of the coffee supply chain, and build their direct trade models with that in mind. That said, like most people in the coffee industry, I’m very uneducated in most areas of coffee trading and am actively trying to learn more and develop a strategy for operating in solidarity with my fellow workers all along the supply chain. So the best I can honestly say for now is that I’m trying to do better than the average, and hoping to do a LOT better in the long term.

This gets better…

I am a white, cisgender, queer man. When I used to daydream about opening my own cafe, the idea always left a bad taste in my mouth because I also feel that the world doesn’t need more things owned by people at my particular intersection of privileges. However, this opportunity was offered to me, and I see it as an opportunity to use my privileged position to undermine the systems that put me there. The best thing I think I can do is hire people who aren’t white, cisgender, heterosexual men, make them equal owners, and follow their lead in making the place less white-male-centered than the industry standard. That’s what I’m working towards, and I expect to be held accountable if I don’t get ther

His typo, not mine.

 

Aw hell…where did I leave that…oh here it is.

🚨 🚨 White Girl Beer Alert 🚨 🚨

With the obsession with stouts that emphasize their coffee flavored notes, naturally it means there are those that might want to cater to the tastes to people that don’t like coffee.  How do people traditionally sell coffee to people that don’t like coffee?  By adding things like cream, sugar, spices, and some form of communism to suit the tastes of people who wish to signal their status as somebody that paid too much (or in this case nothing) for something as pedestrian as a cup of coffee.  This one is just a bit too sweet, but they get points at least for not pretending to be anti-capitalists stooges. Heretic Carmel Moo-Chiato: 2.1/5. 6% ABV