City November 20, 2009 5:48 AM

"Mug of Hope" to Benefit Cancer Research

“Mug of Hope” to Benefit Cancer Research

If you have a java junkie on your Christmas list, check out this special and meaningful opportunity: $100 for a mug that refills itself for free, all year long.

Amanda and Shannon are teenagers who love art, and they've also endured months of intense chemotherapy treatment - together. They are two of five Roswell Park Cancer Institute's youth artists from The Paint Box Project, and they have left their handprint - literally - on the newest Paint Box gift.   Just unveiled is the first-edition Dunkin' Donuts "bottomless" cup of coffee, "Mug of Hope."

The limited edition mug is on sale now through www.paintboxproject.com for $100, and entitles purchasers to unlimited free coffee from participating Western New York Dunkin' Donuts restaurants from date of purchase through December 31, 2010 - a value estimated at more than $500 if used daily, and even more if purchasers "run on Dunkin" in 2010. All proceeds benefit Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and with a limited supply of just 1,000 mugs, Dunkin' Donuts expects to raise $100,000 for Roswell Park.  The mugs are ideal holiday gifts for coffee lovers.

This year marks The Paint Box Project's 20th anniversary. The project has raised more than $7.4 million since its beginning. What started out with gift cards during the holidays has grown into something bigger and even more special, as evidenced by the Mug of Hope.  Now that's a loving cup.

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If Wilson Farms, Spot, Cafe Aroma, Comfort Zone, Tim Horton's or Sweetness 7 matches this offer, I am IN! (Nothing against Dunkin Donut's just not in my neighborhood)

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If Flying Bison matches this offer, I AM IN TOO!

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Yeah!

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Nice to know Dunkin' Donuts cares so much about finding a cure for cancer. However, it's hard not to be a little cynical about the gesture when you consider their products are laced with partially hydrogentaed vegetable oil, a trans-fatty "preservative," that--oh, by the way--CAUSES cancer.

http://www.breastcancer.org/tips/nutrition/new_research/20080411b.jsp

Is anyone else getting a little tired of the greed and ignorance that sullies these supposedly "feel good" efforts? Reminds of when I did the "Race for the Cure" a couple years ago and they handed out granola bars, containing the aforementioned partially hydrogenated oils. If Roswell Park is behind this, shouldn't they know better?!?!
Not trying to sound like a whiner. In fact, if anybody has suggestions about how to wake people up about this issue, I'm all ears!

Glazed Donut

(https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/nutrition/Product.aspx?Category=Donuts&id=DD-530)

INGREDIENTS: Donut Dough: Donut Mix [Enriched Flour (Wheat, Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Soybean Oil, Dextrose, Salt, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda), Defatted Soy Flour, Maltodextrin, Wheat Starch, Mono and Diglycerides, Gums (Cellulose, Guar, Arabic, Carrageenan, Xanthan), Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Soy Lecithin, Enzymes, Artificial Flavor, Annatto and Turmeric (Color), Nonfat Milk, Egg], Water, Yeast; Glaze: Sugar, Water, Maltodextrin, Contains 2% or less of: Propylene Glycol, Mono and Diglycerides (Emulsifier), Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Agar, Citric Acid, Carboxymethyl Cellulose, Artificial Flavor; Shortening: Palm Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil and Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil with TBHQ and Citric Acid added to help protect flavor.

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dude you are lame....

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Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

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bdb203, you make a good point.

Any person who has had cancer would agree, it is time to eliminate the crap from our food.

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