Posted on 04/18/2018 8:50:59 AM PDT by C19fan
What the late Lionel Trilling used to call the liberal imagination was captured by the plight of two black men who went to a Philadelphia Starbucks and didn't order anything. 8,000 Starbucks stores closed yesterday for sensitivity training and the conscience of an anguished world pulsated with guilt and grief over the arrest of the two men, whose only offense was to stand there.
The two men were exactly right: The right thing to do in Starbucks is not to order anything, because the coffee is disgusting. Starbucks' response, to be sure, was incommensurate with the problem: Rather than subject their employees to the ritual farce of sensitivity training, the company should spend money on high-quality coffee beans, and roast them lightly rather than burn them into acidic volcanic ash. The best coffee (namely Italian espresso) is not bitter, but bittersweet, like dark chocolate. High-quality Italian coffee (for example Illy or Lavazza) is widely available in American supermarkets, and the persistence of Starbucks in the face of higher-quality competition is a testimony to the poverty of the American palate.
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Get some cans of those, and a decent quality espresso machine (say Breville, $200+) with a frother, and even if you are a Starbucks addict, you'll never step foot in there again. FAR superior.
I think it was a set-up, and I bet it was financed either by BLM or Soros, somehow. “Sit there/ don’t leave/ up the ante- be belligerent/ make them arrest you. We’ll start a BLM protest the very next day. We have the PR ready, the signs are being printed, and we have other grad students who need money ready to go into the stores and scream and shout.’
I mean, the pattern is pretty old by now and awfully redundant.
So now a business is a free space for all . Hey if you arne’t buying anything - go some place else. They have to pay rent, electricity, water, sewer, employees, taxes. So they are now supposed to let the homeless camp in their stores????? It’s the same dang rule for any color of skin pigmentation. If you want to use the facilities, buy something.
LOL. This reminds me of a story.
Not long ago I went into a local sub shop (not a national chain like Subway). At this place you have the option of ordering your sub on either whole wheat or white/French bread.
This particular location, in a very liberal city, had mostly Millenials working there who had numerous tats and piercings.
In a rather loud voice I said, “I’ll have a number 10 on ‘white’”.
Trigger!!
For the next minute and a half this female Millenial snowflake kept repeating my order out loud, “One number 10 on FRENCH!” “Here’s a number 10 on FRENCH!”
I kept an eye on my sub as it was being made just so there were no “additives” to my sub. But man, I was dying of laughter. She was so triggered it was absolutely hysterical.
“Starbucks ... coffee is disgusting. .... Rather than subject their employees to the ritual farce of sensitivity training, the company should spend money on high-quality coffee beans, and roast them lightly rather than burn them into acidic volcanic ash.”
BTTT
Besides, even if it was decent or good, I wouldn’t patronize those liberal f&*^tards. I’d go for ANYTHING from the Black Rifle Coffee Company https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/
Henceforth Starbucks will be open to black men congregating there without buying anything, at least anything from Starbucks. Perhaps Starbucks can try to levy a % charge on drug transactions. The shootings and stuff will just be part of the cultural Ambiance. The implications here is that Starbucks doesn’t stay viable.
LOL, I took your advice, ProtectOurFreedom, and you are right...the last paragraph particularly!
His comments about craft beer sound kind of snobby...I don’t really care for the taste of beer itself, but I enjoy it as a social drink...something to have in the hand and give you a small buzz.
My palate never grew to appreciate it...or wine...or scotch, though I drink plenty of those!
I’m not a fan either - when I’m with someone else and have to go then just like you I refuse their choice of words and order a medium or large black coffee....just a drip coffee people in a large cup ... this isn’t hard....
I find McDs and Dunkin’ Donuts to be much better then Starbucks and much better value... cost wise.
I don't like Starbuck's self righteous PC virtue-signalling, but I must say that the Sumatra dark roast is the best coffee out there. It makes Dunkin' Donuts coffee taste like crap.
I can't believe so many Freepers complain about Starbucks coffee -- have they no taste buds? I'll bet they drink their coffee with cream and sugar, anyway. So great coffee is wasted on them. Pussies.
Just sayin'.
The answer to Starbucks coffee?
Lot’sa cream. Lot’sa sugar.
If I need to use a restroom, I usually try to buy something, even a pack of gum. But as I get older...when the bladder comes-a-knocking...I am not beyond going in and making a beeline to the head. And then I even buy something on the way out.
But I have no problem with any place specifying that you don’t occupy space unless you are a customer. And while it is true there are some places that would have no issue with non-customers milling around, I have seen from personal experience there are some places that have to actively discourage it because the courtesy is abused by people...especially in busy places.
The CEO of Starbucks (Schmidt), told me not to come to his stores if I were a Christian.
So I don’t go to Starbucks.
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That’s awesome.
I’d step it up and say that you you’re allergic to the French wheat and must have white bread.
I’m on the road for work a lot. I’d get fat if I bought something every gas station I stopped at.
Starbucks, Panera and McDonald’s proclaim themselves as a de-facto community center. That includes the bathroom’s.
I understand. That wasn’t at all a knock on anyone. It is just how I conduct myself.
I get a little tired of people telling me what I should like.
Sometimes I’m in the mood for some “roasted to ash” coffee.
I don’t care for “hoppy” beers. However there are some craft brews that I like. That’s one of the joys of trying different mico-brews. Though on occasion I’ve been seen drinking Coors Light.
I’ve been known to put a bit of ketchup on a steak, cooked medium-well.
I guess the difference between the author and myself is I won’t tell him that he’s drinking his coffee too mild, his beer too malty, or even that his steak is raw.
I often do too, but certainly not every time.
I generally will stop at places I do buy from. I buy a lot of gas at WAWA gas stations, so even if I haven’t bought gas, the chain gets thousands of dollars from me a year, enough to justify a flush or two.
I don’t buy communist gas from Cigto, so I also don’t stop there for anything else.
Yes...we have used McDonald’s as a “rest stop” for years...sometimes we buy something
Cool! Why pay for internet now? I can go to Starbucks down the street and hang out all day and night with my laptop. I don’t even have to buy anything. Great business model!
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