According to the stunned patrons of local coffee shop Beans United, the café’s menu display is written in over 10,000 shades of chalk. “I went up to the barista to order a drink, but when I saw the menu overhead, I was so dazzled by the vast array of colors that I couldn’t speak,” recounted James Marshall of his experience with the display written in more colors than the human eye can reasonably differentiate. “Sure, it made the menu hard to read, but the colors were so beautiful, such a delight to the senses, that somehow I ended up ordering forty dollars worth of food and drink.” At press time, Marshall was marveling over the menu’s 500 slightly-different turkey sandwiches.

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