Mancession + Bathing Suit Season = Coffee Profits

Could it be as simple as the combination of the impending swimsuit season and an ongoing mancession that drove sales for Starbucks and fastfood giant, McDonald’s? McDonald’s added all these fluffy sugary coffee drinks to their menu, as well as hot and iced coffee, in American sizes at flyover state prices. So far so good. [...]

The Coffee Placebo

Stressful times call for legal vices, and coffee is usually the last addiction to be tackled. People may give up alcohol, soda, sugar, even nicotine, but coffee seems to have both neurological and emotional effects that are hard to abandon. Coffee is like a security blanket for most Americans putting in too much time at [...]

Ben & Jerry’s To Go Fair Trade

Ben & Jerry’s has just given us one more reason to indulge in our favorite alternative to sex: ice cream. OK, we’d always choose the grind over any food, so long as he knows what he is doing, but ice cream is available at every corner deli and pretty soon, it will be available guilt-free. So [...]

Duane Reade Pushes DeLish

The creation of yet another snack line may seem insignificant, but while the lot of well-educated and privileged people believe that simply teaching people to cook will end obesity, the truth is that we must wage a war against the widespread overuse of corn syrup and salt. This became clear when I realized that adding [...]

Starbucks Needs A Liquor License

Starbucks should start getting liquor licenses and create the Kahluacino already. Damn, we might as well call it The Monday. I think they should create specialty coffee cocktails, one for each day of the week. Since I am feeling the pain today, not enough sleep, the looming death of four Conde Nast magazines (why am I [...]

Breakfast 2.0

We are trying to kick the sugar and caffeine habit. Wine weaning, well, that’s for post-recession. Let’s focusing on starting the day right. Here at Trendcetera.com, we spend countless days trying to plan out the perfect day of healthy eating, compete with meals that are easy to maintain and prepare, but satisfying enough to consume [...]

International Headlines September 29

Saudi Arabian police say they have arrested five men on charges of using the Internet to recruit for al-Qaeda that were alleging trying to get people to build military groups in Afghanistan and Iraq, BBC reports. The Saudi Arabian interior ministry said the men used 28 screen names to get into different websites. The Saudi authorities [...]

Bathing In BoozeSoaking Up Spirits At Spas What:The global trend of beer bathing appears to be growing, with the spa industry following the skincare trends and offering baths in beer, wine and sake.

The Dirt:The beer bath appears a growing wellness and leisure phenomenon, as its grows beyond the European beer mecca where it began. Originally located at breweries and hotels in the nexus of Eastern and Western Europe, most facilities offering beer baths are located in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Austria’s Starkenber Beer Myth Resort [...]

An Organic Energy DrinkStay Awake With Natural Elements SklyarHaley’s energy drink Essn Energy melds all the latest alternative caffeine sources with a sugar alternative to create a guilt-free jolt.

The Dirt:Are you that person for whom coffee means lots of cream and way too much sugar? By the time you drink a 12 ounce cup of coffee, you’ve already overloaded on sugar and added unnecessary fat and calories from the cream, and you can’t shake the soda addiction either. But, you still need a [...]

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