coffee pods

[Amy West]

We have a new coffee machine in the administrative offices of the
museum that uses not "coffee pods" but "flavor pods": there are pods
for chai and hot chocolate in addition to the coffee.

I used the darn thing for the first time today. I feigned offense at
the steps where you're required to indicate "your cup size" (all  the
staff in offices on that floor are female, oddly enough).

I also pointed out how sad it was that the perfectly fine compostable
coffee grounds were now sealed in plastic.

---Amy West


>Date:    Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:51:08 -0400
>From:    Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: coffee pods
>
>A new term to me, but Google reports "about 434,000" hits. These are the
>sealed paper containers of measured amounts of ground coffee for use in
>coffee makers.
>
>BTW, one page, titled "Make Your Own Coffee Pods" (
>http://www.ineedcoffee.com/04/coffeepods/), had this variation on "too/how
>ADJ of a N":
>
>     Be careful not to use too big of filter or to make sloppy folds.
>
>If I were dictating text and saw that, I would assume a misrecognition of
>"too big a filter" /tubIg@'fIlt at r/: [@f] interpreted as /@vf/.
>
>-- Mark
>[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

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