The official explanation involves warm air meeting cold air, automatic defrost cycles, compressors, fans, and a store manager who would prefer you stop asking whether aisle seven was built over an ancient burial ground.
But the evidence remains troubling.
The door sighs when you open it. A bag of corn falls for no reason. Somewhere in the mist, a pizza appears to have moved since Tuesday.
This is especially convincing before coffee, when the brain has not yet loaded its practical explanations. Before coffee, refrigeration fog is paranormal activity. After coffee, it is condensation and a reminder that you forgot the peas.
Coffee does not make the supermarket less strange. It simply gives you enough administrative capacity to distinguish a faulty fan from a Victorian child asking you to leave the ice cream aisle.
Probably.
Coffee note
Daily Coffee News recently profiled Two Fold Coffee & Kitchen in Tampa, an all-day café that shifts from a multiroaster specialty coffee program by day to natural wine and chef-led food later on. Its owners designed the space to feel comfortable and lived-in rather than overly polished, while the coffee program highlights expressive coffees from an international roster of roasters.
It is a useful reminder that a café can be more than a counter where caffeine changes hands. It can be a place designed for staying, meeting, working, and returning—ideally without spectral frozen vegetables.
Read the article: https://dailycoffeenews.com/2026/08/06/two-fold-doubles-down-on-quality-in-tampa/
Featured Canadian coffee roaster
Name: Trinity Coffee Company
Website:http://www.trinitycoffeecompany.ca/
City: Trinity
Province: Newfoundland and Labrador
In their own words: Trinity Coffee Company is a rural Newfoundland roastery established after Ian White acquired Auntie Crae's roaster in 2014. It produces small-batch, roast-on-demand coffee and accepts direct orders through its website.