“Turning down Frappuccino was the best mistake I never made.” After losing customers to smaller coffee shops who offered cold coffee drinks, several California Starbucks partners embarked on their own experiment to create a blended cold drink that could stand up to their competitors. Despite his initial reluctance — fearing that this new drink would “dilute the integrity of what [Starbucks] stood for — leader Howard Schultz let his partners in California continue their experiment, giving birth to the company’s most popular product to date. Read full article here
Science
An Eerie Poisonous Fog
If you’re visiting a farm, keep an eye out for an ominous-looking bronze fog. Nitrogen tetroxide, a red-orange gas, is made by certain bacteria during fermentation when oxygen is lacking in the crop. The lack of oxygen causes the bacteria to use the nitrate within the crops, which then produces nitrogen tetroxide. Inhalation of the gas is known to cause permanent lung damage or kill people and livestock. To prevent this, farmers have started performing nitrate tests after four weeks of fermentation. Read full article here
Merv
November 30, 2022
