Announcing the AliExpress winners: Round 2 (Patreon)

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