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Self-Heating Latte Cans Bring Out Lawyers — NYT

(I have to note that I was much more amused when I thought it said “Self-Hating Latte Cans Bring Out Lawyers.”  One can only imagine what a self-hating latte can would be — perhaps its labeling would say “C’mon, it’s just coffee and hot milk in a can, and you’re paying three bucks for it?!  I’m not worth it, you pretentious-yet-oddly-downmarket consumer.”)

Anyway, it’s an interesting story about Wolfgang Puck’s line of self-heating lattes-in-cans being withdrawn due to utterly predictable (to the non-self-heating-latte-specialist, anyway) Bad Things(tm) — exploding cans, leaking chemicals, etc.

The story also contains a stunning blast of obviousness at the end:

But one beverage industry expert says that self-heating coffee was never going to be a booming business. “This package was an interesting novelty, but was never going to be a big idea,” said John Sicher, publisher of Beverage Digest. “It’s not exactly hard to find a hot cup of coffee in America.”

(Via WSJ LawBlog.)