Hong Kong Starbucks apologizes for brewing coffee with 'toilet water'
OK, so this Starbucks didn't use water from an actual toilet to brew coffee. But it did use water from a wall-mounted faucet located mere feet from the urinal, which is also cause for alarm. Oh, but they filtered it — does that help? Workers were reportedly forced to carry water from the bathroom in a neighboring garage because of a lack of any nearby water source, but bathroom water? Thankfully, Hong Kong's Food and Environmental Hygiene Department issued a waing to the Starbucks, which we hope was stely worded. After news of the toilet water got out, the location switched to distilled water. Also from a toilet (kidding). [Source]
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