What a terrible infographic. Half the colors are so close they canât be distinguished even with good vision, and a colorblind person wouldnât be able to see more than 2 of them. Whatâs the matter, donât like shapes? Your assignment: read some Tufte, go back, and do it over againâŚ
ASTONISHING REGIONAL COFFEE FACTS!*
A locked room in a salt mine in Utah contains the last 25 cases of Postum.
Twenty five counties in the south and midwest only consume coffee made from Robusta variety beans, on account of Arabica beans support terrorism.
In parts of the Southwest, the preferred method of making coffee involves boiling the grounds in a pot with an egg, the way âCookieâ on the chuck wagon did it.
Those little hourglass-shaped aluminum pots with the guy pointing up on them are illegal in two midwestern states.
A run of French Press coffee makers labeled âLiberty Pressâ are being sold to fans of the Glenn Beck show at a 322% mark up.
*Not. Look, I got bored.
Iâm not sure this map gets across the astonishing density of coffee shops in Seattle.
My five-mile morning commute in the Boston area takes me within a block of five Dunkieses, five Starbuckses (not counting all the Harvard cafeterias that serve Starbucks coffee) and a Peetâs. I feel like assigning one color dot to the âwinningâ chain in that scenario doesnât really express the degree of the crazy at work.
One Stumptown is worth a thousand of anything else.
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Stumptown.
Tim Hortons has installed at least 5 locations in the Ann Arbor area within the last year. They seem to be in it to win it.
So assuming I want a coffee that doesnât come from a chain or franchise, what are my chances?
Oh man if I count the super market starbucks franchises, within 3/4 mile walk I have 5 that I can walk to in my north seattle neighborhood.
A vendor was filling a coffee machine and I asked him which one would be the best. He replied the âregularâ over the flavoured coffees as the flavoured coffee is cut with âhickory and peanut shellsâ. Not really but not far off either.
This doesnât include smaller chains that dominate locally. Here in Milwaukee, itâs Colectivo. On my way to work, I pass two of them.
Depends on where you live. In my town (a Seattle suburb) we have a half dozen indie coffee stands within a mile radius of my house. Itâs decent, and I prefer to frequent those places as I like to support local businesses.
We also have a bit of a bizarre phenomenon in bikini baristas. Itâs not that surprising, but itâs interesting in that they started out as indie places, but got so much business that some of the bikini baristas have started chaining, and have a bunch of stands. âHot Javaâ is one of them.
Thatâs just the beginning of Canadaâs annexation of Michigan. People joke about how there are so many Starbucks locations, but there are something like 2.5x as many Tim Hortons locations per capita in Canada compared to the number of Starbucks per capita in the US.
You have no idea how fine I would be with Michigan being annexed into Ontario.
Every time I go visit family in Michigan, I notice more of them. If the Canadians just finish annexing the state already, I may have to move back so I can enjoy some fries with gravy (and not just poutine, but fries with brown gravy is genius).
This visualization mustâve been made with data thatâs at least five years old, as some Starbucks that I know of in Missouri arenât shown at all.
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