Iced Out

As the chilled coffee season approaches, watered-down beverage fraud gets our columnist hot under the collar

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Gersh Kuntzman
Newsweek
Updated: 6:25 p.m. ET April 25, 2005

April 25 - Ah, summer: The days are longer, temperatures are higher and people willingly pay more for watered-down coffee. Yes, iced-coffee season is upon us, which means that scam artists are gearing up to charge you more for less. But this year, you're going to fight back, aren't you? You're not going to let them charge you $3 for an iced coffee when they charge $2 for the same sized regular coffee, are you?

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