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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

cherry pie (not warrant style)

my local coffee shop can normally be counted on for good, carb filled, diabetic coma inducing sugary breakfast products. cinamon rolls, chocolate croissants, apple danishes et all. but, this morning, something surprising was in the offing.

THE CHERRY BURRITO

uh wah? now this is all wrong. it's like two great things that when melded together, cojure up images of blech.
like a streusal top meat loaf. or a butter pecan tuna melt. whose ever gonna buy a miscreant product with a name like this?

i ask to inspect said 'burrito' and find it to be delightful. not filled with beans or salsa, but juicy ripe cherries in a light sugar reduction wrapped around a flaky, elongated pie type crust.

"mmm" methinks "give this sucker a better name and it'll sell millions. millions! then i'll take over the world!" don't ask how i intend to take over the world on peets revenues, it doesn't matter.

i brainstormed, with the staff, and here's some new names we came up with:

SWEET CHERRY WAND

BUTTERY CHERRY STICK

CHERRY SHAFT

THE 'GLAZE MY CHERRY' SUGAR PIPE

These are good, damn good, but i think we can do better.

anyone?