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LYC: It only took 3 hours for coffee to start seeping out of the bottom of my styrofoam McD's coffee cup. Gross and disconcerting. - nm

Posted by emoticripple Oct 16 '08, 09:49

But then, I guess if I'm frequenting McDonald's at all, the stability of the styrofoam should probably be the least of my worries.

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weird, their coffee cups were made of paper about a year ago. -- nm - Stacy Oct 16, 09:56 3
- too much heat transfer? -- nm - zork Oct 16, 09:59 2
  - yes perhaps, it had no jacket/sleeve and was rather hot. -- nm - Stacy Oct 16, 10:05 1
    - darn thermodynamics! -- nm - zork Oct 16, 10:08
they're still using styrofoam? maybe it's some sort of soy-rofoam -- nm - zork Oct 16, 09:53 2
- It does have a recycle 6 symbol on the bottom, and it says PS. Poly-styrene? Is that different from styrofoam? -- nm - emoticripple Oct 16, 09:57 1
  - I'm pretty sure "styrofoam" is just a brand name for polystyrene. - musubi Oct 16, 09:59
if it does that to styrofoam, think what McD's coffee could do to the ozone -- nm - crash davis Oct 16, 09:51 3
- I swear, straight out of the pot the stuff could probably be used in smelting. "Caution: I am seriously hot and caustic. For serious." -- nm - emoticripple Oct 16, 09:54 2
  - the stuff at the bottom of a pot that has sat there for an hour should be regulated by the feds -- nm - crash davis Oct 16, 09:55 1
    - at least they refill the pots when ther're empty -- nm - loosi SI#8456 Oct 16, 09:56

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