Q: You return home after four days away to find the power off, a circuit breaker flipped most likely due to the daily lightning storms. The house is at least 85 degrees and has been warm long enough to melt all of the ice in the freezer’s ice maker. The frozen shrimp has been warm for five to eighty six hours and shrimpy water has leaked all over the freezer. You throw out almost everything in the refrigerator and freezer.
You have three pounds of Peet’s Coffee in the freezer that you carried 8,500 miles. Choose one of the following:
a) You throw the coffee away. It may be Peet’s but nothing can stay free of shrimp smell.
b) You drink the coffee. Good coffee can kill off anything.
c) You throw the coffee away. Good coffee can kill off anything except your memory of the overpowering shrimp smell, which you will remember early each morning when you pour a cup.
What do you do?
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knowing you, you’d write a letter to someone… get a free bag of peets and a year-long supply of frozen shrimp. throw in a pic of clementine in a shrimp costume.
You say that like that’s a bad thing. I think the shrimp costume might work well with the ‘fried rice’ costume I’ve wanted to do for Halloween.
‘Dear Peets Coffee: A regular cup of Peet’s coffee, properly brewed, requires two tablespoons of ground coffee (cone filter, in our case). How many tablespoons should I use if the coffee was stored next to rotting shrimp?’