Posted on 04/19/2018 4:16:24 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Weird? Yeah, they looked at me funny and it was somewhat awkward when I ordered a medium coffee with milk, no sugar. Too many questions, I didn’t know what they were asking.
The Coffee Bean is good, just order the light.
Starbucks coffee is really nothing but burnt battery acid.
I’v tasted better out of my thermos that has been capped for three weeks and I had to skim the mold off.
I take it your gas mask failed in Boot Camp and all your taste buds died.
The only explanation I can think of.
YUP; had my first cup at about 4 or 5 years old.
My Mother caught me putting cream in it and about handed me my head.
She said if I was going to drink coffee then I was going to do it right “BLACK ONLY”.
Been doing it that way ever since, still have my old “Marine Corps Lifer Mug”.
The only time I add cream now is if I know I am not going to be able to eat real food for 2 or 3 days.
Try Mayorga (from Costco). $14 for a 2-pound bag of beans. Nice rich flavor and no burnt taste.
A lot of gas station breakfast blends are pretty darned good, too.
Starcuck’s? Nasty, bitter, “I’m a coffee aficionado I’ll have you know!” snob swill.
However, in the late 80s, in the tourist rich city near which I live, there was absolutely no "coffee house" type of business.
On a trip to Denver circa 1990, I recall going to a coffeehouse that offered of course, coffee along with muffins and newspapers (no internet at that time, of course). At that time I recognized how successful such a business would be in our city, but lacked the wherewithal, expertise and courage to open one. Wish I'd had the foresight to invest in publicly owned companies that provided this service.
Who takes a shit in a public restroom? 54 years old and has never and will never.
“Who takes a shit in a public restroom?”
Well, nobody WANTS TO, but sometimes sh!t happens...
My strangest Starbucks story is when...never mind, that was Dunkin Donuts. I’ve honestly never been to a Starbucks because I couldn’t tell you where the closest one is; in my working-class neighborhood nobody would spend that much on a cup of coffee.
Thanks. Don’t do Costco.
Costco, gun banners and West Point grad killers.
Ever been to a Buc-Cees?
Their public restrooms are cleaner than your bathroom at home.
I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Ikea, but their food area has the worst coffee ever. Several times we’ve been there, the coffee is either really watered down like dishwater, or burnt. Skip the coffee urn, go to the other side of the counter and use the automated coffee machine that dispenses cappuccino, latte, and regular coffee - the automated is better than the human-made coffee. (Ikea charges more for it but just pay for regular coffee and get the automated, they don’t care, everyone does it, if you have a family account the coffee is free.)
I will try....thanks.
I believe you are correct here. Starbucks has inadvertently set a precedent that will incentivize people to loiter in their stores hoping to be asked to leave so they can hit the lawsuit lottery. The employees will be completely handcuffed after being instructed not ask anyone to leave or to call the police to remove anyone for any reason (unless they say 'Merry Christmas' or something else equally "offensive").
This is going to attract the ferals, homeless and other societal dregs thereby driving away their paying customers. It will happen over time, but it will not end well for Starbucks.
It’s a regular worker joe’s coffee, not a cafe experience.
I have been drinking Dunks since I started drinking coffee.
I have noticed it getting a little thinner recently. The other thing they did is start making all of those stupid sandwiches.
The no greater aggravation than standing in line for ten minutes behind these people who order sandwiches. Then the next one, who has also been standing there for ten minutes, get to the front and not have any idea of what they are going to order.
And they go there every day.
But I will go to dunks every day of the week before I go to a Starbucks. And that is even before they started being jerks.
But the best coffee I’ve ever had was on a shop in Main Street in Corning New york. Every time we went visit our daughter when she was in college we would buy about $100 worth of coffee to bring home. I miss that coffee.
There is convenience store that gets it, super clean, large selection of everything and have enough well trained/paid staff that they are fast and effective. If others would follow their lead.
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