Controversial Christmas

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How have I lived without you VIA?


Here we have coffee.  Lovely, wonderful coffee.  Personally, I prefer Caribou Coffee, but we don't have that here.  We have Starbucks... so I love Starbucks.  For some reason I had an aversion to even trying their VIA line of coffees.  It wasn't until my sister had some and I really wanted coffee that I gave it a whirl, and honestly I never want to look back.

I am one for saying, 'why does this nation have to be so lazy?'  Some modern conveniences are just too convenient and will probably end us up like the people on Wall-E.  But this one I just can not resist.  It is just so wonderfully convenient to plug in the electric kettle while I'm brushing my teeth.  Easily open the packet of coffee and put it in the cup to then simply pour hot water over.... as opposed to the night before, prying coffee filters away from each other, putting one in the basket, measuring out coffee (which is a science since I don't want water with coffee in it.  I want COFFEE), pouring in water (which I usually have to go back to the bathroom to add more water), just so I can flip a switch upon waking up so that my coffee is done by the time I'm out of the loo.

The only down-side?  It is very expensive on what I make a month.  I won't go into details, but even The Walton's were richer than I am (and that was before they came out of the depression & landed that swanky war job that got them a nice Woody car).  So, needless to say, it is not a luxury that I can have all of the time.  

Which brings me to societies overall aversion to words out of place... which ends up in my happiness!  

Or is it that it is dated 2011?

So, my sister & I hit up Target's after Christmas sale (an entire two weeks late) and there is just a plethora of the full size, 8 serving, boxes of VIA Christmas Blend.  We're like kinds in a candy store.  Instead of $11 a box they are now $2.  We stock up!  OK, I only bought three boxes.  We decided the next day to go back for more, but when we got there they'd moved them to the in store Starbucks and they were not on discount.  :(

Which brings me to yesterday, when my sister & I went to Target.  I needed to purchase my mother a bag of coffee.  They are closed, but will do things other than espresso machine drinks.  So, I'm purchasing my coffee and while I'm waiting for them to grind it, one of the barista's extends this cup of VIA's to me and says to take some.  "They're free.  Oh, take more than a few.  You want all of it?  It's Christmas Blend just so you know."  Apparently they had cups full of VIA Christmas blend for weeks trying to give it away and no one would take it.  She said when people found out it was Christmas Blend they refused.  

If you don't boycott Starbucks (which you wouldn't or you won't be there) and you like dark brew coffee (and they always sale out of Christmas blend during the holidays because customers apparently love it) the only logical explanation I have to refuse free coffee, it has to be because it is completely unacceptable to have Christmas coffee when it's not Christmas.  Because it wasn't the VIA that turned them off, she said, so it must have been the fact that it was Christmas.  

I honestly don't understand that reasoning.  It's a delicious dark brew.  It's not eggnog or holiday garland flavoured.  The only thing Christmas about it is the name.  Basically it is Italian or French Roast, or Gold Coast or Cafe Verona.  Just a normal dark brew coffee.

But their loss is my gain.  I don't have an aversion to having something outside of it's holiday or time frame, and because of that I was given about 35 of the delicious Starbucks VIA dark brew packets... for FREE.  Simply because I wished for some more that day and the Universe happily supplied it... and because other people are weird?

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