It figures Popularity can help get you ahead, but not if you don't have the sense to back it up. Eventually people see through that. If you've got a good head on your shoulders, though, and you're a caring person which you obviously are, then you've got it made. It takes the whole package to make the person people really want around. Learned that the hard way over the years. And that's my thinking! No one's useless, not to this seal thing.
Gingerbread is sort of amazing, it's a spicy little cake like treat with cinnamon and nutmeg and all sorts of other sweetness. They make it into bread or cookies or, in this case, coffee. I think you should definitely do a flavour a day. Try a different one and write about it. You can have your own coffee blog!