The Coffee Pot: A Story About A Woman Who Wasn't Crazy, And An Induced, Temporary Nation That Was
"It's Not Just The Image Of A Coffee Maker. It's The Image Of A Paranoid System."
Side note: I think if we had access to objects made behind the so called Iron Curtain, most would still work perfectly today. Note that she still had the same coffee maker long after her country (vast quarantine) had dissolved and her spying husband had died. That thing will outlive us all.
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After the Stasi's paranoia set in, they considered furtively switching to decaf. But the coffee commercials demonstrated that consumers could pick out their brands in blind taste tests.
What a fascinating story! Being a very observant person & married to a left handed man I always notice when my husband leaves our teapot or coffee pot with the handle faced to the left. Lol. My children thought I had eyes in the back of my head when I would come in & get onto to them for watching tv before doing their homework after school. I never told them I felt the tv & it was warm, mom’s are much too smart to give away those secrets. 😂