Well, the palm trees put up by Starbucks in front of the Duomo in Milan last Thursday certainly didn't last long. They were already burned down by protesters last night (video below). Starbucks certainly doesn't understand Italy if they hoped to break into its coffee market by using a theme championed by Mussolini to hail his North African Empire, not far from where he and his mistress were hung upside down.
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