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Announcing the AliExpress winners: Round 2

Added 2022-11-03 16:00:13 +0000 UTC

I hope you're all doing well. The second round of Patron winners for the AliExpress items have now been drawn and contacted by email.

The winners of the questionable AliExpress items were:

Max from the UK won the Turkish sand heater
Mead from the US won the spoon scale
Alex from the US won the spice pen
Brandon from the US won the smart thermos mug

Winners of the more useful AliExpress items were:

Bethan from Canada
Jacob from the USA
Dusty from the USA
Muna from the USA
Joseph from the USA
Ryan Q. from the USA
Miranda from the USA
Kyle from the USA
Cole from the USA
Robert from the USA
Chris from the USA
Ryan R. from the USA
Dominic from Germany
Dan from the UK
Oliver from the UK
Adam from the UK
Lewis from the UK
James H. from the UK (via Australia)
Daglar from the Netherlands

Here are some of our favourite answers to the contest questions:

What should get printed on a latte?

Pope Francis!!
A photo of real latte art.
A picture of a minion... Banana :)
If at a cafe, the name of the person the latte is for to make things easier for pickup

What would you do with the bean costume if you won it?

Run a marathon in it and become the world's fastest human bean
Exclusively brew coffee whilst wearing the costume. It won't matter when or where. No costume, no coffee.
Do a crawl of the best coffee houses around London
Use it this halloween to scare people with IBS
Wear it to work, obviously.
Look at it askance.
Clearly I'd wear it on a coffee tour of the UK
That's my Halloween sorted for at least the next 10 years I should imagine
Find a sports team that needs a mascot