Mocha: A Eulogy

Okay, I don't know if the women who work at the Dunkin' Donuts in the North Haven Stop & Shop know what they're talking about. Lord knows I'm hoping they don't. All I know is that a kind of gray fuzz fell over my eyes as I was speaking to them this afternoon, when they informed me--for the second day in a row (yes, I spend a lot of time at Stop & Shop)--that they didn't have mocha for a mocha coolata. But that wasn't the bad part. I mean, what do I need them for, right? I can think of five other Dunkin' Donuts within five miles of them. I can get my coolatas elsewhere, thank you very much.

It's what they said next. They said that they'd gotten a new machine that spurts out different flavors, and somehow, it was suggested, their acquisition of this device meant that they would never have mocha flavoring again. And not only that, but it was their understanding that this would be the case in every Dunkin' Donuts across this great nation.

That's when I experienced the gray fuzz, and I kind of stumbled out of the store.

Don't get me wrong: I got my mocha coolata down the street. That Dunkin' Donuts still had mocha.

But for how long? That's the question that haunts me.

[technorati: coolatas, Dunkin' Donuts, mocha]

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