Moscow Cafe Crawl

McDonalds now has espresso! You can pick some up at the 3rd street location in Moscow. How does it taste? The short answer is: Not great, but I’ve had worse. On the sleeve of the new cups is a tale of how their delightful drinks came to be. In case you can’t read the picture below, I’ll help translate:

Special coffee starts with special beans.

Quality control is our top priority. Our coffee beans are harvested by hand in the warm climates of Central and South America, as well as the mountainous regions of Indonesia. Only the finest, fully ripened beans are mentioned on this cup and used, ensuring great tasting coffee. Or at least that’s a good place to start. Our state-of-the-art fully automatic, auto-grinding, auto-tamping, auto extracting, auto-steaming, auto-temperature gaging, self-cleaning espresso machine then freshly grinds our beans before brewing them under pressure, a proven technique of allegedly sophisticated European origin. It is this meticulous and completely human-free process that enables us to create our fine line of McCafe specialty coffees with almost no additional staff training.

Caution. Handle with care. I’m really freakin’ hot.

Filed under: McDonalds on February 1st, 2008