You say sommelier, I say barista

[Margaret Lee]

Does "caught out" here mean the same as "called out"?


--- On Sat, 8/2/08, David A. Daniel <dad at POKERWIZ.COM> wrote:


*Not many remember that Starbucks was caught out a few years ago as having
been duped by Central American coffee suppliers who were selling them very
ordinary coffee for very expensive prices, etcetera and such: even the
Starbucks people could not tell good coffee from bad. What a scam...
DAD


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>In a message dated 8/1/08 11:59:03 AM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:
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>
>> And they really do make better, stronger coffee than dunkin donuts, or
Au
Bon Pain, IMHO.
>>
>
>IMHO, Starbucks is the biggest joke in American coffee history. The
emphasis is on the BUCKS, and the methodology is pretentiousness. Their
sense of how to make "better, stronger" coffee is to overroast it
until it
tastes burned, having us believe that that charred flavor is sophisticated.
McDonalds has better coffee, on the whole, and Dunkin Donuts is right up
there with Gevalia (in many cases better). And one can buy D.D. at Costco
(who also carry Starbucks as well).
>
>Not sure what that has to do with American language, but then half of what
is said here is pretty irrelevant, so there you are.

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