Coffee Nerds With Fancy Grinders Mocked by Twee Girl With Fancy Clothes [Video]
Michael Hession
Coffee enthusiasts everywhere felt the painful sting of pop-culture mockery last night when The New Girl featured butt-of-all-jokes Schmidt bitching about his conical burr grinder. If you watch the show, you know that Schmidt is a sort of combination douche/hipster/trend-whore, not the kind of person your average home-brewer would want to be compared to. More »


source: gizmodo.com
14 Mar 2012
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