You know they dont understand the word "large" in a Starbucks. I stopped at one yesterday in honor of this thread. Had a 3.50 cup of tar and it was a VENTE.
"But I wanted a large"
"You poor fool, had you been more than the pitiful agrarian you are, you would have soon learned that we use various words from other languages to provide an artificial sense of "STYLE" to our product"
" So, Can I order in Setswana or Polish?"
"dont be silly, these are our sizes, deal with them, you hick"'
"Can you understand F**k you?, your workin for a company that makes you get dressed up like a Brownie", and your givin me advice?"
" So,I got my coffee at a WAWA" At least They dump their old coffee every 20 minutes so it doesnt get stale, and their beans are cheab robustas but it tastes like fresh coffee at a Hiway stop or a Dunkin Donuts. It doesnt taste like hot furniture polish.
You who prefer Starbucks probably think that Olive Garden is Italian food.
Exactly!
We recently ran out of coffee at home and I was at a regular grocery so I picked up a bag of Starbucks beans. Two days later I was near Trader Joe's so I picked up my regular selection. I've been mixing in a few of the SB beans just to get rid of them.
The first 'varietal' coffee I ever drank was Jamaica blue mountain. I haven't had any in years, but it was delicious.
littlek, if you check out Trader Joe's coffees, I've just bought the Aussie blend. It's not as dark as the double dark Mexican but pretty good even when blended with a bit of the SBs.
I'd kill for a Starbucks here in Houston. Coffee here means Folgers or a trip to McDonalds.
Argh.
There's good food to be had here - but it seems to be wasted on the locals, who have no clue.
BTW, I've never heard of "double dark Mexican". Is that one that decided to combine a vacation with a border crossing?
There's no Starbucks in Houston?
How can that be?
Yes but Houston is huge and not a walking city. Starbucks is all about walking in, not driving through.
How has Starbucks infiltrated our society so fully??
It is pretty scary.
They succeeded by creating a need no one knew was there. I mean: People do appreciate good coffee, but those super-rich, super-sweet concoctions are what brings the money in.
Howard Schultz wrote a book about it...
Huh. I think there scones are made of concrete. I guess I march to a different drummer.
Starbucks coffee is pretty awful. But a woman who works in an independently owned coffee shop where the coffee is good told me she buys Starbucks even though she thinks it's bad.
The reason? She thinks, and I agree with her, that they put something in it that makes you crave it.
One more thing that may prove this: Someone was telling me about how they just bought one of those fancy new high tech coffee makers, the kind that has more functions than we have bodily functions-- The instructions on the coffee maker say specifically: Do not use Starbucks coffee. This makes me think there is some chemical in it that will erode the machine, that same chemical, perhaps, that keeps people going back for more.
The reason not to use starbucks' beans in those coffeemakers is that they tend to be more oily than others and the machine needs to be cleaned more often. Also when the beans are grinding they stick together instead of falling freely to their aromatic demise.
I am tiring of charbucks and thankfully there is a great alternative straight from Vienna in my neighborhood.
Julius Meinl
Well, I thought of one good thing about Starbucks:
They donate a lot of their 'leftover' bottom-of-the-barrel beans to shelters across Canada.
At the one place, featuring supra-cheap meals and coffee for folks, 30 cents for a cup of coffee, I was delighted at how good the coffee was. Turns out the brew was a mix of many varieties of Starbucks beans brewed in a regular old coffee maker.
The result was delicious. :wink:
Un huh. Like you're going to get a good cup of coffee in a paper cup.
roger - It was an old-school foam cup. Who doesn't love a foam cup?!
The only way to drink coffee is from a big, thick
white mug like they used to have in diners.
sublime1 wrote:The reason not to use starbucks' beans in those coffeemakers is that they tend to be more oily than others and the machine needs to be cleaned more often. Also when the beans are grinding they stick together instead of falling freely to their aromatic demise.
I am tiring of charbucks and thankfully there is a great alternative straight from Vienna in my neighborhood.
Julius Meinl
Aha. That explains why the Starbucks beans aren't supposed to go in the coffee maker. Still, I am convinced they do put something in the beans that makes you going back for more. When I go on road trips I am always happy to find that Starbucks has become the Hpward Johnsons of the highway.
Yeah but Starbucks doesn't have all you can eat fried clams on Fridays.
