Pastry War. Written By: Pastry War, (1838â39), brief and minor conflict between Mexico and France, arising from the claim of a French pastry cook living in Tacubaya, near Mexico City, that some Mexican army officers had damaged his restaurant.
[Photograph: National Post] Starbucks announced plans on Sunday to roll out their version of the Big Gulp: the new, massive, 31-ounce cup size called the Trenta.. (Trenta means thirty in Italian.) It will only be available for iced coffee and tea drinks, at $.50 more than a Venti. The rollout begins this week in 14 states, and will go nationwide by May 3.
Photo: The world's largest cup of coffee contained the equivalent of 216,000 expressos. The Guinness world record for the largest cup of coffee was 12,847.69 litres (2,826.09 UK gal; 3,394 US gal) and was made by PuertoRicoIsCoffee.com (Puerto Rico) at the Puerto Rico Coffee Expo 2011 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The coffee cup measured 3 m (10 ft) tall and 2.32 m (7.6 ft) in diameter and had a circumference of 7.18 m (23 ft 6.5 in).