Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Food & Drink The Search for the Cheapest Cup of Iced Coffee
Posted by Edith on Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:01 AM
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Why is iced coffee so expensive? Is it the ice machines? No. The plastic cups? No. A difference in the coffee? Not usually. Straws? No. In fact,
Iced coffee may actually be cheaper to make than hot coffee, because it often uses several-hours-old coffee that would otherwise be thrown down the drain. Coffee has a very short life span where it still tastes good hot, but when poured over ice it is impossible even for connoisseurs to tell the difference. [Forbes]The Forbes hypothesis is that stores make their iced coffee expensive simply because they can, preying on our caffeine requirements and our blurry understanding of the variables--our assumption that's it's probably more expensive to make, somehow, in some way, because of that thing.
So, 1) Where is the cheapest iced coffee? I think $1.50 is the average bodega/deli cheap price. Where is it less?
2) Are there some mysterious facts about iced coffee I don't know?
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