This tickles us ever so. Last year after 4,000+ folks in the Richmond held their breath until their faces turned blue, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban the popular coffee chain Starbucks from setting up shop at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Geary. Problem solved, right? Wrong.

Being the crafty little coffee making bastards that they are, Starbucks "had the audacity to sneak a kiosk into the Safeway store at Cabrillo and Eighth." (Hee!) Naturally, people curled up into the fetal position and started sobbing hysterically after seeing the chain serving its poisonous yet smooth brew. That is, until Jake McGoldrick got wind of this near-criminal activity and put his foot down. Hard. The kiosk has since stopped selling coffee there.

But isn't Safeway--a chain itself, we should point out--neutral territory? The Switzerland of retail marketing?

Anyway, Starbucks beans are still, oddly enough, for sale on store shelves at Safeway, which is fine by all, it seems. But pulverizing the beans and pouring hot water though them into differently-sized paper cups is the real problem here? Huh. Curbed goes on to point out that "the final fate of the shop will be decided within the next month, as city planners decided whether the thing should be treated as a separate biz or part of Safeway itself. Tedium reigns." And how.