"Janet Puistonen" > wrote in message
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> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>> "Peter A" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Consumer Reports did a taste test of coffee from various restaurants
>>> and found that McDonalds beat Starbucks.
>>>
>>> http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...949.shtml?s=us
>>> --
>>> Peter Aitken
>>
>>
>> This, from the same testing organization that said Japanese home
>> stereo speakers sounded terrific in the mid-1980s, when they were
>> made out of cardboard.
>
> I recall when they said that Haagen Daz vanilla ice cream was "too rich."
> They preferred Friendly's, IIRC.
>
> Right.
>
> You always have to be careful and read the criteria they use for judging.
> They probably don't like dark roasts. BTW, isn't MacDonald's selling Paul
> Newman organic coffee nowadays?


I don't trust any test that doesn't involve measurements with instruments,
and even those tests can be designed incorrectly, as we saw with the baby
seat debacle.