No bagel for you for one year. (Paraphrasing Seinfeld)
Frankly, IMHO Starbucks is overrated and overpriced. She’s better off buying bagels at the supermarket and making them up at home the way she likes.
I dunno, I sort of sympathize...
I get so irritated when I go to places where they have two sizes, medium and large. What’s with that???
This one is smaller than that one. Call the former small and the latter large. There can only be a medium size if there are three sizes.
Why is that so hard for people to understand?
Arrrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!
The genius of Starbucks is marketing.
First, they appeal to their customer's elitist inclinations (Seattle being an ideal place to start) by convincing them that the only coffee worth drinking is coffee made with very dark (actually over-roasted) beans. Then they convince them to pay for the addition of 600 calories (or more) of flavorings to make that cup of bitter coffee drinkable.
Eh, viola! A cup of good tasting black coffee that cost maybe $0.25 to produce and should be sold for no more than a dollar, can now cost $3.00 to $5.00. Brilliant.
And, if anyone complains about the underlying burnt taste or exorbitant pricing, just impugn their ancestry, education, or politics. In that case, Starbucks should be the official coffee of the Democratic Party. Certainly would fit with its place of origin.
In New York City, of all places, buying a Starbux bagel makes NO sense. I don’t even like their coffee, but their fare beyond that is horrible. Better to go to Panera if you want chain bagels or coffee.