Coffee Wars

Just tap it straight into my veins! Coffee the life blood of just about every new yorker forced to

commute and deal with other highly caffeinated people. I myself began my love of coffee and

coffee drinks after learning to work a very fancy cappuccino at 16 years old...the sweet brew

allowed me to work through my junior and senior years of high school with very little sleep and

working very long shifts and still making it in time for home room.

Now as many Bronx residents know good coffee is not hard to come by, rather the overly priced

yuppie brand seems absent from the borough. The major retail StarBUCKS has a sprinkling of

stores in the Bronx a majority of which are inside other retail chains ( one of which being in the

Bronx's sole Barnes & Noble's) and the other in target ...Then there is the w225th street location

which the residents of the area don't consider to be in the Bronx, they have annexed them selves

and taken on the areas name to be just another trendy neighborhood in Manhattan ( Sorry but

look at a map Riverdale is no No-Ha)

But I digress...Today the coffee war have kicked it up a notched and StarBUCKS is closing there

doors for a few hot spot free, caffeine vein tapping hours to retrain there Batista's. Dunkin

Donuts has taken this opportunity to push their cheaper latte for 99 cents fro several hours,

even over lapping the hours that StarBUCKS will be closed ( I assumed to benefit from the over

spill of customers fighting to get back into their caffeine induced frenzy). Seeing as how I doubt

my travels will take me south of "upper Manhattan" also known as riverdale and the and the

FUCKING Bronx, I will not be able TO enjoy my fave soy latte...why doesn't DD's invest in some

some soy milk seeing as how lactose intolerance is more prevalent among people of color, and

like StarBUCKS in trendier neighborhoods DD's is dotted through out uptown neighborhoods. So

I guess I will have to settle for the Bodega Bottles of liquid crack that StarBUCKS trucks uptown.

Hope 2% milk won't kill me...ttyl