The bare-breasted mermaid has returned. Starbucks Corp. is festooning its coffee cups in Oregon and Washington this month with the company’s original logo as part of a 35th anniversary tribute. Some think it’s just a little too risque – at least for the eyes of babes.A suburban elementary school principal has asked teachers who come to school with a cup of Starbucks joe to cover up the logo with a cup sleeve. “The principal felt like it was distracting so she asked the teachers to use coffee sleeves,” said Becky Hanks, spokeswoman for the Kent School District south of Seattle. She declined to identify the principal or the school where she works…The two-tailed mermaid in the original logo was based on a 16th-century Norse woodcut and was designed to capture the seafaring tradition of early coffee traders, Starbucks said.
What’s next, a burqa for Copenhagen’s “Little Mermaid”?
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