Egg Patties? Culinary laboratory technicians??
Starbuc*s begins serving a new line of “breakfasts” early Tuesday morning.
The food development team at Starbuc*s spent a year creating two breakfast sandwiches for the pairings. Although the eggs and cheese are mixed in huge vats, poured into tins, baked, frozen and shipped to distribution centers to be assembled, they wanted them to look freshly made to appeal to people who do not like fast-food outlets.
At first, the manufacturer that supplies Starbuc*s with egg patties came up with perfectly round eggs from a mold. Starbuc*s rejected them, asking for a more free-form mold to look more like the shape of a freshly cracked egg, said Starbuc*s’s director for food and bakery. Starbuc*s’s food scientists mixed parmesan cheese with the egg to prevent the smell from seeping into the stores and overwhelming the smell of coffee.
Because, hey, nothing says breakfast like eggs and cheese mixed in huge vats, poured into tins, baked, frozen and shipped to distribution centers to be assembled by culinary laboratory technicians. Whatever the hell those are.
We can hardly wait..
Dink said,
March 3, 2009 at 8:07 am
In as much as I’ve always refused to pay Starbuck prices for coffee anyway, I certainly won’t be sampling their “breakfasts” But, I’m sure the same is true of Egg Mcmuffins and every other fast food “breakfast” option. No thanks !!
Cage Free Family said,
March 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm
If Starbucks doesn’t want to look like fast food they may want to dump the drive-thrus and the push button chinos ;-p
ewww
Cage Free Family said,
March 3, 2009 at 11:21 pm
If Starbucks doesn’t want to look like fast food they may want to dump the drive-thrus and the push button chinos ;-p
ewww
Sorry… forgot to say great post – can’t wait to read your next one!