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violachicBitter brew? For the past couple of weeks, those wags at Kramerbooks &
Afterwords Cafe in Dupont Circle have been marketing a beverage called the
"Trent Lotte." The menu describes the $3.25 item as "separate but equal parts
of coffee and milk" a not too veiled reference to Mississippi Sen. Trent
Lott's career-damaging 100th-birthday praise of fellow Republican Sen. Strom
Thurmond's segregationist 1948 presidential campaign. Yesterday bartender Mark
Kutcher told us that the coffee and steamed milk are served in two different
containers, and it's up to customers to integrate them. "We think it's really
funny," Kutcher said. "That's why we do it." But we seriously doubt if Lott is
laughing. Our call to the deposed Senate Republican leader's press office
yesterday was greeted by grim silence.
Afterwords Cafe in Dupont Circle have been marketing a beverage called the
"Trent Lotte." The menu describes the $3.25 item as "separate but equal parts
of coffee and milk" a not too veiled reference to Mississippi Sen. Trent
Lott's career-damaging 100th-birthday praise of fellow Republican Sen. Strom
Thurmond's segregationist 1948 presidential campaign. Yesterday bartender Mark
Kutcher told us that the coffee and steamed milk are served in two different
containers, and it's up to customers to integrate them. "We think it's really
funny," Kutcher said. "That's why we do it." But we seriously doubt if Lott is
laughing. Our call to the deposed Senate Republican leader's press office
yesterday was greeted by grim silence.
