On Jan 2 2007 16:15, David Weinehall wrote: >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: >> >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but >> *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature that >> will produce third-degree burns almost immediately, and > >That's less than 90°C. [1]
>Water boils at 100°C. How the hell do >people expect coffee to be made without boiling water? Magic? Boil or not - I've done a test some years ago with some friend arguing about what the best temperature for tea is. Result of an experiment involving actual temperature sensors: my default tea is 40 deg celsius. Theirs was about 60. And to note, drinking 60 deg water already starts to scald my tongue slightly so that it 'itches' for a while. So nothing[1] is unreasonable. >> 2) there had, for a decade prior, been some *700* cases where people >> had burned themselves with mcdonald's coffee, so it's not as if >> mcdonald's was unaware of the danger, yet continued to ignore it. > >No, the customers continued to prove to be total morons by total >ignorance of the fact that coffee *is* hot when fresh. If they >cannot handle hot coffee, they can order ice coffee or ask for a >refill of their cola. Reminds me of http://qdb.us/4753 -`J' --
