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.
Red Bull is among the popular brands of high-caffeine energy drinks. Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times . Among the latest entrants in the energy industryâs caffeine race is a pocket-size squeeze bottle called Mio Energy. Each half-teaspoon serving of Mio, which is sold by Kraft Foods, releases 60 milligrams of caffeine in a beverage, the amount in a six-ounce cup of coffee, the company says. But one size of the bottle, which users can repeatedly squeeze, contains 18 servings, or 1,060 milligrams, of caffeine â more than enough, health specialists say, to sicken children and some adults, and even send some of them to the hospital.