Mocha Magic drive-thru and “EAGLE VISION”
After dinner the objective was to go shop for clothes – a commodity that I rarely invest in.
Trying on pair of pants after pair of pants after pair of pants is no fun at all.
It makes you tired, and you don’t often discover valuables in the pockets of
your new finds; you may find a chicken bone instead!
Thankfully, I was in a part of town where I was easily distracted by “ethnic groceries”.
There was the Samoan shop that had cacao (that’s chocolate) beans, which you are supposed to roast, and sugar, and make a drink out of. The Samoan ladies were very instructive on the finer points of the process, but I wonder if they eat them raw instead, too? I do.
Then there was the Russian grocery where I bought several different bottles of juice from several different countries: cherry juice (Georgia)
blueberry juice (Belarus)
and pomegranate juice (Azerbaijan).
I also got candy.
Another non-textile high point was a typical drive-thru coffee shop which had an atypical item on their menu: caffeine-added coffee. (Some of us may remember, during the “hi-tech” 1990s, when A/V stores were selling, not only hardware, but consumables to wanna-be techies. I mean food products at the Best Buy. The most practical item was Shock Coffee. Caffeine-enriched coffee beans. It tasted okay. They’re still in business?!Shock!).
The drive-thru’s brand of 50%-more-caffeine coffee is called “EAGLE VISION”
which would be nonsensical if you didn’t notice that this coffee drive-thru’s logo
is an eagle and an American flag, which seems nonsensical in any case.
I ordered my usual of two shots of espresso with ice.
The coffee is what I would call a “goal oriented” drink.
My friend said that hers tasted like cigarettes.
