# In modern day America, we all live on the streets and eat coffee made from snow! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828 "2013-03-13T16:30:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![steviep24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@steviep24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steviep24)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/41 "2013-03-14T14:59:56Z")
Now I know what Starbucks Frappucinos and Tim Hortons Ice Caps are made of. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/42 "2013-03-14T16:34:14Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Of course, we’ve already eaten all our canetoads. Cane Toad Thursdays? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/43 "2013-03-14T16:46:02Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > You North Americans don’t know how good you have it. Here in the sub-tropics we have no snow. We have to just imagine what coffee would be like, and then attempt to feel perked up based on the fantasy. You haven’t been getting your ration of Sand-Coffee, then? No big loss. It’s decaf. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/44 "2013-03-14T17:09:51Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > Surely we have some Dopers who speak Korean I don’t speak Korean, but [this](http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2013/03/north-korean-propaganda-video-shows.html) person does. Basically, the video is really North Korean in origin but the translation is completely wrong. The real translation is down near the bottom of the page. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/45 "2013-03-16T23:46:48Z")
[QUOTE=XT] In modern day America, we all live on the streets and eat coffee made from snow! [/QUOTE] And with global warming, what are you going to do when domestic US snow sources evaporate? Soon, you will have to import it - and from where? Ha! We in Canada will _own_ you, you snow-coffee-swilling yankees! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/46 "2013-03-18T21:12:27Z")
You know, since there are no more birds all those KFCs are just sitting there empty and forlorn. Screw this, I’m packing up my tent and moving in there. At least I can lick the deep fryer… ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/47 "2013-03-20T21:28:38Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I can’t wait until summer. I really need to cut down on caffeine! > > Now excuse me while I go eat one of the last birds. On white bread. With mayo made of rain. You have white bread in the States? Luxury! Bloody luxury! Here in the UK we only have _black_ bread. made from _coal_. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/48 "2013-03-20T21:47:25Z")
A bird! Grab him! I’ll get some frost for the stuffing! Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/49 "2013-03-21T01:13:06Z")
> [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](#): > > You have white bread in the States? Luxury! Bloody luxury! Here in the UK we only have _black_ bread. made from _coal_. You have coal? Here in Canada we sit around fires of fake coal made from snow. Or at least we used to, because the Ministry of Prosperity just announced that we will be shipping our surplus snow south to aid the oppressed people of the United States. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/50 "2013-03-21T13:16:51Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Piper] And with global warming, what are you going to do when domestic US snow sources evaporate? [/QUOTE] Well, apparently we still have cheap and plentiful sources for heroin, so I guess there is that. > [@](#): > > Soon, you will have to import it - and from where? > > Ha! We in Canada will own you, you snow-coffee-swilling yankees! I always knew you sneaky bastards to the north would have us over a barrel (of snow) some day!! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![hiebram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5fc32e/32.png) [@hiebram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hiebram)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/51 "2013-03-22T14:27:58Z")
I’m sure it has been noticed by many people already, but I would like to point out the irony of so many news agencies credulously running a story about how how gullible North Koreans are and how they will believe ridiculously fake propaganda about America. You just have to take a moment and appreciate that. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/52 "2013-03-22T14:41:15Z")
> [@hiebram](#): > > I’m sure it has been noticed by many people already, but I would like to point out the irony of so many news agencies credulously running a story about how how gullible North Koreans are and how they will believe ridiculously fake propaganda about America. You just have to take a moment and appreciate that. Can you name some? The article linked in the OP clearly stated that the video was alleged to be from North Korea, and it’s clear they were skeptical that it was from them. I did a search on CNN and couldn’t find any mention of the video at all. And after the dream nuclear attack on the US (which was from North Korea), I’d say that people could be excused somewhat from jumping to the conclusion that this was as well, so I’m not seeing a heavy irony quotient here, to be honest…nor a real comparability between what’s fed to the North Koreans on a constant basis for the last half century and this. YMMV of course. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/53 "2013-03-22T14:47:42Z")
> [@XT](#): > > I’m not seeing a heavy irony quotient here, to be honest… I am. If nothing else from the responses in this thread. But I’m an old curmudgeon, I take everything on the Internet with a grain of salt. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828/54 "2013-03-22T14:50:42Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > I am. If nothing else from the responses in this thread. But I’m an old curmudgeon, I take everything on the Internet with a grain of salt. > 🙂 You do realize that most of the people responding in this thread were joking, right? 😉 Which is why this is in MPSIMS instead of, say, Great Debates. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-modern-day-america-we-all-live-on-the-streets-and-eat-coffee-made-from-snow/652828.md?page=2)