I watched that case with considerable amazement. As Dave has pointed out,
anybody's fresh brewed coffee is plenty hot enough to burn you, ESPECIALLY
if you do what that woman did and pour it in your lap then drive around for
20 minutes looking for a doctor to verify your burns !!!
But, I'll point out that it wasn't our legal system that decided McD's was
at fault, but a jury !
If the legal system has any blame at all, it's for selecting juries that
are mostly poor, uneducated, unemployed, and somewhat err,uhm, ...
uncreative. These people tend to see any large company as being the rich
enemy, and delight in any excuse to have the "poor underdog" take some of
their money away. IMO the recent decision against GM falls into the same
category.
Randall
On Thursday, August 12, 1999 2:01 PM, Dave Terrick
[SMTP:dterrick@pangea.ca] wrote:
>
> Aaaah, cofffeeeeeee....mmmmmmm
>
> Actually, the "preferred" method of brew is to use water that is just
"off
> boil", likely about 180-200. Much less and the aromatics and esters
(oils
> and gunk) that make good coffee good have no chance to leach out of the
> grind. Much more and stuff gets "boiled off".
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