Starbukkin' -

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This is why we can't have nice things!

I doubt most Constant Readers even noticed it when it came across the WSJ, except possibly the most caffeine addicted of y'all out there...
But it seems that the super-seekrit Starbux spot finally made the national news...
(So secret it's been published by Yours Truly several times... Like here and here...)

An article was published in the Wall Street Journal and really threw a monkey wrench into the works here in Sochi...

After 10 days in Russia's sparse Olympic frontier, Sonari Glinton glimpsed a beautiful green siren: the Starbucks  mermaid on a crisp white coffee cup.

But after Mr. Glinton, a journalist for NPR, trailed the mystery cup for several hundred feet, its owner told him that he was out of luck. It came from the "office," she said—the Olympic broadcasting center where NBC has its own secret Starbucks.

Man- that sent the waves a-ripplin'...
McD's got pissed, IOC got involved...

Not a pretty sight...
All of a sudden there was a moratorium on Starbucks cups and cup sleeves...
Logos were covered with gaffers tape or otherwise obscured, all the unused cups were confiscated or marked for internal use only...




Nat, the caterer up at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park has too much time on her hands, modding these cup sleeves.


I think I'll send a message...


TBG- ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE