[geeks] Barbeque Geekery

[Phil Stracchino]

Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> I was never hugely impressed with Peet's coffee, and I thought they 
>> went downhill after being acquired by Starbucks.  Starbucks coffee all 
>> tastes burnt, and now so does Peet's.  We tend to buy either from 
>> First Colony, Trader Joe's, or a small local roastery.
>
> I think you are confused.  Peet's is not owned by Starbucks, and never 
> has been.  Although they have had some common management in the past, 
> they are separate, publicly traded companies.

I was pretty sure I heard of Peet's being bought out a couple of years 
back.  I'll freely concede I could be mistaken ...  but then, it 
wouldn't be the first time, as far as the recollections of myself and 
multiple other people are concerned, I've caught the universe in a 
continuity error.

(Example:  I distinctly remember Michael Moorcock dying of cancer in 
Birmingham, England in 1976.  The last two volumes of his Hawklords 
series had to be finished posthumously - and badly - by Michael 
Butterworth.  Then, about ten years ago, I discovered to my great 
surprise that he was alive again, new books he'd written suddenly 
started appearing again, and the Hawklords books are now credited "from 
a concept by...")


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