Deep Local Experience - Wednesday, April 16th

Undercover sipping bad coffee at Washtenaw Dairy on Sunday morning with Claire Rice, I was commenting on the movement of hipsters toward this unfortunate brew. They seem to be searching for the deep local experience of timelessness, and find it steeped in the setting of this Old West Side classic.

Eavesdropping on the oldsters while glancing thru the NYT Sunday edition, and grimacing over coffee from those classic two-part plastic cups where the handle is reused but the basic cup gets tossed out. The cream comes from traditional milk bottles with over-sized bartender pour spouts, the donuts are fresh and infamous, and everything about the place screams unadulterated Ann Arbor tradition.

Prior to the hipster commentary, I was bragging about a Vietnamese restaurant in Portland, Oregon where I was often the only white person. Claire thought I sounded like a blog she'd heard about recently. Later at Brunch at the Aut Bar we randomly met Jacob and Dorothy (who happened to be there eating with everyone’s favorite shoe purveyor, Molly Mast) and Jacob mentioned the very same site. I knew I had to share it with my valued readers because its relevance was cracking us up, like on-the-floor laughing style. Stuff White People Like

Sorry for the posting delay, but the Really Good Coffee has actually been selling like crazy. Buy some and see what all the fuss is about.

Posted by John at 5:55pm 04/16/08