APPALLING customer service!!! TOXIC COFFEE!
Shocking how a coffee house doesn't know what kind of decaf they serve ... SAFE? OR TOXIC?
I rang St Louis at Hyde Park ... to ask if their decaf coffee was chemically decaffeinated (which is toxic) ... or whether it was decaffeinated using the safer swiss water process. The woman (with a south american accent) ... who was VERY unfriendly/impatient, said she didn't know. She made NO attempt to put me on hold to ask someone who MIGHT know ... so as to prompt me to actually COME to there cafe ... she just told me (while appearing to mock me by laughing) that she didn't know.
MOST coffee houses, (who could care less about the quality of their coffee ... or the health of their patrons) ... serve CHEMICALLY decaffeinated coffee ... because the average Joe has no idea about the dangers. This is where they use a chemical SOLVENT - usually methylene chloride or ethyl acetate (see below for info on dangers).
The dangerous chemical residue remaining by using this toxic method, is more harmful than caffeine! Might also account for that migraine you get after drinking coffee ...
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Methylene chloride ... (CH2Cl2) is a colorless liquid that can harm the eyes, skin, liver, and heart. Exposure can cause drowsiness, dizziness, numbness and tingling limbs, and nausea. It may cause cancer. Severe exposure can cause loss of consciousness and death.
Ethyl acetate ... is highly flammable, as well as toxic when ingestion or inhaled, and this chemical can be seriously damaging to internal organs in the case of repeated or prolonged exposure. Ethyl acetate can also cause irritation when it comes into contact with the eyes or skin. read more