After a break for refreshments, the company tried to keep things going by delivering a number of letters to the Brookes' home, each rumoured to contain an even huger bid for Mr Brooke's prison diary – top offer was £40,000 – and by ringing the doorbell.
The drinks, called iced shaken refreshments, are the company's latest salvo in one of the coffee industry's most hotly contested fronts: the summer.
In the past 5 years, the ladies auxiliary has raised over $40,000 for the fire company from refreshment sales, catering, and annual quilt auctions.
Taking over New Zealand's very own White House on Auckland's Queen Street, with delicious refreshment from Behemoth Brewing Company, we treated the crowd to the first two episodes of Tom Arnold's quest.
Pictures of protesters served with refreshments by oil companies or using their facilities only strengthened the suspicions.
The city of Cape Town had its origin in 1652, when the Dutch East India Company established a refreshment station for its ships on the shores of Table Bay.
Back home, practically every other day, a refreshment truck for a production company sat parked near my corner, there for the filming of an episode of "Law & Order," or maybe "Sex and the City".
A spokeswoman for Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, Susan Stribling, said the company would rather help address the plastic litter problem by increasing the availability of recycling programs.
The refreshment stands, run by an outside company that operates the school cafeteria, are card tables set up in the hallways.
