As I skimmed over the words to avoid reading the article, I’m simply reminded that Starbucks has terrible coffee. That is enough to cause me to avoid it.
How is JC Penny doing these days?
I read that a lot on Free Republic. What's wrong with their coffee? I quite like it. I drink very strong coffee and their coffees have loads of flavor. I doubt they'd be as popular as they are if they had terrible coffee.
Sorry Pastor, but I disagree. In the past I have patronized Starbucks but will do so no longer. I am not trying to destroy the corporation. However, I choose not to support an organization that not only works against my most sacred beliefs, but also openly tells me that it does not want my business or investment dollars. Being a Christian means we are called to forgive. But Starbucks has not asked our forgiveness. And we are not required to subsidize our own persecution. And believe me, sooner rather than later, Christians who refuse to endorse same-sex “marriage” will be subjected to the draconian punishments of an increasingly totalitarian state. In formerly free countries like Canada and the UK, this has already happened.
It is a literal minefield out their in the market, and people of moral character will be wise to actively seek out those increasingly fewer companies who don’t bow to the sodomite Molech.
It’s hard work and inconvenient, but we have to do it.
Interesting story, that.
It seems that in Italy, poor people could not afford decent quality coffee beans with which to brew their espresso, so to compensate for the low quality they would roast the cheap beans extra dark. Many of these Italian peasants emigrated to the United States, bringing their over-roasting ways with them. Now, at some point, it became fashionable among the coastal elite to consume espresso, espresso being foreign and therefore stylishly superior to the American coffee of the plain folk. Since their point of reference for espresso was the roasted-to-within-an-inch-of-coaldom drink brought to the New World by the dirt poor, that is what they assumed was normal. The over-cooked flavor, now being firmly established as being the style of the high class, soon migrated from espresso of the anointed to the coffee of the anointed. This burnt tasting coffee was effectively comoditized by Starbucks, Seattle's Best, et al., and now people all over America can pay exorbitant prices for nasty tasting coffee and feel superior doing so.
The moral of the story? People are idiots.