Posted on 04/11/2019 9:35:32 AM PDT by simpson96
I can proudly say I’ve never spent a dime at Starbucks.
That’s the hipster way to do it. Cast iron skillet, coffee grinder, etc.
Starbucks is a “Yuppie” thing. A Starbucks cup says “I didn’t have time to make A coffee because I am too focused on my goals”.
At the beach last year : “Guys, do we have time to stop so I can get a Latte?”
Me: “There’s the coffee and there is ice cream in the freezer. Pretend”.
“Burned S***”
That’s what I’m told straight Starbucks tastes like. Never been there.
As for REAL coffee, I’m not a Navy man, but G.I. coffee boiled in a ten gallon kettle then ladeled into your canteen cup and drunk down while standing there shivering in the pre-dawn cold next to your tank....
That’s a real coffee experience, too.
;^)
Starbucks?
Nasty overly-strong coffee that tastes like paint stripper?
Surly baristas cranked-off over the fact that they don’t have a cushy high-paying policymaking job in Washington with their Masters Degree in Womyns Studies?
Lousy music cranked up to 11 so that it’s impossible to have a conversation with anybody?
Shiftless Save-the-Planet types with BO sitting there parking on their WiFi for hour after hour?
No thanks.
Hope it isn’t Soylent Green.
That coffee sounds totally disgusting.
LOL! Brutal but accurate.
This is actually a really sad article.
Starbucks doesn’t really sell coffee. What they sell is a feeling of neighborhood and connectedness. But it is not real.
The baristas are chosen for their personalities and many have a following of customers. They get to know their customers and for many people it is a time of recognition and pseudo friendship. My daughter, the outgoing one, had customers who showed up 3 times day to her to say hi and connect with a sentence or two. We all have a basic human need to be acknowledged and seen.
The holiday season she worked there she received numerous invitations to customers’ homes for the holidays. From high end people too, doctors, an attorney, business people, and a psychologist. People who somehow thought she was a friend.
We both thought it was pretty sad. Customers projecting their hopes and needs on to people who are paid to be polite and friendly.
Effective and lucrative business model.
To me it has a strong after-taste of marijuana, or skunk, or sh*t. Its a bad experience.
True but I admire the fact that Starbucks figured out a formula that appeals to so many idiots. Company has made a fortune on their ‘ luxury ‘ product.
one’s hierarchy of values should be made in the full context of one’s knowledge and other goals and obligations
Best get used to poverty ...
I wouldn’t spend another $ for Charsux. Dang that’s one tasteless, narcissistic millennial, but then I’m being redundant
She’s a (7, 9) with a “not very bright” chaser.
“I’ll say this...if spending $7 a day on her little bit of heaven is what makes her happy, then go for it.....its a cheap heaven when you think about it...”
Plenty of judgmental commenters on this thread...snobs, in their own way.
Once in a rare while they have something worth reading, but most of the time it's just navel-gazing by self-absorbed millennial hipsters who think they're somehow qualified to give the rest of us advice on how to live our lives.
I don’t understand these people. Put that way, I’d NEVER spend another penny on designer coffee. Silly me. I’d sit there with my small coffee at McD’s or a no-name at home, thinking about how I was going to use that $20,000, in a few years, after it earned some interest.
Vox is great reading while you are puking up soy. :-)
Maybe I shouldn’t say it but Starbucks coffee is horrible and way overpriced.
In all honesty, I’ll take a McDonald’s iced coffee any day.
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