Also, re: Starbucks and Christmas -- I love Christmas and I love (most) Christmas carols (AFTER Thanksgiving, obvs) and I love all of the Starbucks winter foods and beverages and their Christmas blend, but sometimes I just want to snottily ask the baristas why there's no Chanukah blend. I mean, it's not like they're claiming that this is the coffee favored by the baby jesus, but no, Christmas is still NOT a secular American holiday just because a vocal majority thinks it is.
It's not that I feel oppressed by tinsel, or whatever, I just dislike the growing expectation that everyone celebrates Christmas and we don't even have to pretend that there are other winter holidays.
That said, I was at a Starbucks in southern CA once that did in fact sell Chanukah mugs. Props to corporate for that! Plus, let's face it, a proper Chanukah blend coffee would taste like the disapproval of my ancestors, and no one wants to drink that.
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Date: 2011-11-16 08:25 pm (UTC)It's not that I feel oppressed by tinsel, or whatever, I just dislike the growing expectation that everyone celebrates Christmas and we don't even have to pretend that there are other winter holidays.
That said, I was at a Starbucks in southern CA once that did in fact sell Chanukah mugs. Props to corporate for that! Plus, let's face it, a proper Chanukah blend coffee would taste like the disapproval of my ancestors, and no one wants to drink that.