You know, I rather thought that we were at the point where E-Commerce was a reality. The anything-I-want, any-time-I-want-it mentality was supposed to be alive and well. However, there’s still some things you just can’t find.

I was leafing through an issue of “Popular Science” (Yeah, I know… I’m a bit of a geek…) and I saw this really interesting product: It’s a cup of coffee that can heat itself up in just a few minutes to be ready-to-drink. So, I think to myself, “Holy crap! That’s wonderful! I can have a few bottles of this stuff sitting in my locker, and when I’m feeling down I can just bring it out, hit the button and I’m drinking coffee in minutes!” Problem is, its only being sold by “Wolfgang Puck”. Never heard of them myself, but apparently its a fairly big American company. So, OK, I think to myself, I’m not going to find it at Giant Tiger any time soon, but big companies all have websites to buy stuff from. Not Wolfgang Pucks, it seems. While their site seems fairly modern you can’t buy a bloody thing from them! However, I’m a level-headed geek so, naturally, I check out Amazon.com, the home of everything being sold anywhere on the internet, and while they DO offer Wolfgang Puck coffee, it’s the boring ground kind. Far from cool and even further from fast. I even searched E-Bay, hoping someone’d put a few cans up for sale there, but, alas, there was nothing.

Guess I’ll just have to wait until there’s a Canadian distributor. So much for the new “boarderless world” in which we live.

EDIT: It turns out one of the tea-towels in the kitchen is made by Wolfgang Puck. Huh, the things you find out….