To that end, I’ve decided to try to force myself into some kind of routine. Lots of other bloggers participate in some kind of weekly event like Thursday Theater hosted by Goddess in Progress or Makes My Monday. I’ve decided to start “Social Commentary Saturday or Sunday”. Hopefully, every weekend I will do a little blip about something having to do with life and society.
Like other Bostonians, I love my Dunkin Donuts. People who don’t see me in the early mornings at school, are surprised and don’t believe that I am a coffee person. However, I do get up quite early, and in the winter I find it very comforting. I hit a personal milestone this year when the lovely people at the downtown Andover DD would see me in line and have my coffee- Medium Extra Cream, Regular Sugar, waiting for me when I reached the head of the line. (This may have also coincided with when I decided to go on my diet, and thus I haven’t seen my morning friends lately.)
Now that the warm weather is upon us, I have begun to convert over to my other great DD addiction- Iced Tea. I believe that is was debuted last summer and I’ve been hooked ever since. I’m a great connoisseur of iced tea; having made the great transition from the sugary powdered stuff of my childhood to true fresh brewed. It’s rather embarrassing when I collect up my recycling and I see the ridiculous amount of cups in my bin, and how much I’ve actually drank (and spent- that’s for another blog).
How do I like my tea you ask? Well, I like a medium with lemon, REGULAR sugar, and just a little ice. They have this truly awful thing called “liquid” sugar. Apparently Dunkins corporate instructs their peeps to make their iced tea with this liquid cancer. Ugh! I have had many, MANY conversations with their people about this. (And unfortunately, have had to send back a lot of teas that have been made incorrectly.) Sometimes I have to tell them granulated sugar. When I’m on the wagon, I don’t use any of their sweetener, but try to use natural plant sweetener stevia instead.
My inspiration for today came when I dragged myself to get some breakfast. The woman behind me in line ordered, “Medium ice coffee, a splash of skim milk, and two equals.” Isn’t funny how everyone has “their” thing, the way their drink must be?
What’s yours?
Below is last week’s cartoon from the Boston Globe. I love checking on line every week to see what clever people have written as captions. Funny!
The caption read, "They're from Boston, all right. They're demanding Dunkin' Donuts coffee and have ordered us to "pull ova in the watta."
5 comments:
Sugar (regular) and lots of extra milk. I used to do "fake" sugar (Splenda) but worried about the chemicals. I can't tell you the number of times I get regular amount of milk and WAY TOO MUCH sugar. Maybe we should both try to go without sugar (I've been cutting down to 1 packet) so our teeth don't rot out of our heads.
Are you sure that the liquid sugar isn't simple syrup? I make a batch and keep it in my fridge for my iced tea - regular granulated doesn't usually dissolve in iced tea or coffee. I am a Starbucks junkie and my drink is a grande Americano (three shots espresso with hot water - I ask for light on the water), with room for milk. Whole milk, not too much, and one packet of sugar in the raw. Used to use the chemicals (Splenda only, I couldn't deal with the others), but have finally made the switch.
PS - I like this idea and will look forward to more Social Commentaries.
I now love sweet tea but limit myself because of how bad for me it is. My real preference is skim chai tea latte. Ice or hot. Yum! Too bad it's like $4 a shot...
tall soy vanilla latte, mmmmmm that's what i'm talking about!
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