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Halloween Horror Story: The Case of the Missing Pumpkin Lattes
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 6, 2012 | By LISA FLEISHER

Posted on 10/08/2012 9:03:54 AM PDT by Altariel

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To: Altariel

We spent a couple of weeks this August driving the Oregon Trail through Wyoming, reading pioneer diaries, looking at exhibits. I came away knowing that I need never whine again.

These guys need to hit the Hard Edge of Reality in a really bad way. Probably voted for Obama? Have they no LIVES??


21 posted on 10/08/2012 10:21:07 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Ann Archy

You wanted a cigarette? Must have been REALLY good LOL!


22 posted on 10/08/2012 10:25:54 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Romney/Ryan 2012)
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To: livius

Serve it with a piece of bacon. Yum, I kid you not!


23 posted on 10/08/2012 10:32:22 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Altariel; mikrofon; martin_fierro
Great Pumpkin Latte,
Oh come, visit me tonight!
Sincerely I wait.
24 posted on 10/08/2012 10:33:25 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Venti my frustration.)
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To: bboop
When my family went west in the 1840's Only 25 people died enroute. In the train behind them a 173 people died, there were worse, Cholera got a lot of them, exhaustion many more. What many people don't realize, as opposed to the movies, that unless you dropped a kid you walked behind some smelly oxen, horses couldn't feed. My GGrandmother lost half her family, buried beside the Platte.
25 posted on 10/08/2012 10:33:25 AM PDT by Little Bill
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To: Charles Henrickson; Altariel; martin_fierro

Horror of Horrors-
No more Pumpkin-spiced Latte!
The world ends, for some…


26 posted on 10/08/2012 10:34:07 AM PDT by mikrofon ($tarbuck$)
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To: Altariel; Charles Henrickson; mikrofon

PUMPKIN COFFEE??!

27 posted on 10/08/2012 10:37:16 AM PDT by martin_fierro (ptui)
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To: Altariel; mikrofon; martin_fierro; livius; CJ Wolf
Four bucks or five bucks,
I need my fix at Starbucks!
PSL IV!
28 posted on 10/08/2012 10:48:47 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Venti my frustration.)
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To: bgill

I’m thinking pumpkin beer is kind of sweet and dessert spicy? I guess that could work with a piece of bacon!


29 posted on 10/08/2012 10:56:05 AM PDT by livius
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To: Altariel

The idea of a pumpkin latte SEEMS so cozy and delicious to me, because I love both coffee and the fall season. “Seems” is the keyword, though. I hate Starbucks coffee, but I gave in to the hype and bought a pumpkin latte once. The thing was so sickeningly, syrupy sweet I almost gagged, and ended up pouring it out. I bet the calorie and carb count of the thing rivals that of a couple of huge slices of cake with frosting.


30 posted on 10/08/2012 11:12:06 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: livius

I don’t like pumpkin anything - except my own homemade pumpkin pie, of course. This morning, I heard two people at the gym talking about pumpkin beer...urp! They said it tasted just like pumpkin pie, which they seemed to think was a good thing.

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Their taste buds are broken.

None of the pumpkin ales I’ve had (and I try a few new ones each year, and have for a number of years now) are anywhere close to pumpkin pie. A hint of pumpkin (more or less) served with a nice bitter hoppiness.

I assume they make this comparison to pumpkin pie because they have no other basis for comparison.


31 posted on 10/08/2012 11:16:55 AM PDT by dmz
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To: Altariel

Probably Obama voters.


32 posted on 10/08/2012 11:17:07 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Try one at Caribou coffee instead (extra bonus - you can use the words small medium and large instead of Starbucks speak).

The coffee is better and I don’t remember it being cloyingly sweet.


33 posted on 10/08/2012 11:22:41 AM PDT by dmz
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To: dmz

Thanks, dmz-—I wish we had one of those around here. If we did, I’d definitely try it.

Oh, how I HATE that “grande” bullcrap at Starbucks.


34 posted on 10/08/2012 11:26:02 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: Altariel
"My world almost ended this morning when the local Starbucks told me they were out of Pumpkin Spice Latte,"

Wow. Someone needs to get a life.

35 posted on 10/08/2012 11:33:33 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Altariel

“I just left, depressed,”

&&&
I this crybaby needs a lot more than a latte.


36 posted on 10/08/2012 11:37:23 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Vaduz

McDonald’s coffee got a very high ranking in “Consumer Reports” some months ago.

I buy a cup of coffee so seldom that I really don’t have much of a basis for comparison, but I am pretty sure the 12-oz cup I bought yesterday at my grocery store for $0.89 was a good deal.


37 posted on 10/08/2012 11:41:56 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Ann Archy

“... I took a sip and literally wanted a cigarette!!”

It was that good, was it?! (chuckle, chuckle)


38 posted on 10/08/2012 11:43:15 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: Altariel

MMMMMM Starbuck’s Pumpkin Latte. Worth every penny!
(Flame suit on)


39 posted on 10/08/2012 11:49:34 AM PDT by STYRO (Do not accept unconstitutional government as legitimate government.)
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To: Altariel
At my local, independent (ie real) coffee shop, Starbucks is known as the BBCC, the Burnt Bean Coffee Company. I think that Starbucks over-roasts their beans so much that their coffee is undrinkable.
40 posted on 10/08/2012 12:04:25 PM PDT by Bob
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