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Re: [OT] Suing for hot coffee



Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> a tapoté :

> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote:
> > Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes:
> > > Give me a break.  Coffee is hot.  It is made with boiling water.  This
> > > is not a case of a McDonalds employee spilling coffee on someone else.
> > > This is someone not being careful and spilling it on themselves.
> > 
> > "Coffee at 180 degrees" is a distinct item from "coffee".  Coffee is
> > not properly served at 180 degrees
> 
> What are you talking about?  When coffee comes out of a good coffee
> machine, it is near boiling.  Coffee enthusiasts even measure the
> temperature to make sure that it is extremely hot [1].  My water
> heater for tea is set at 203, and we serve it right away.  McDonalds
> was far from unreasonable.

Is it really 180° Farenheit... or Celsius? In the first case, sure it
does seems so hot.
 

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