[Pablo64]

"My first and only cup of Starbuck's tasted like the tossed out the bean and brewed the sh!t."

Starbuck's starts with mediocre - mediocre + beans, then burns the crap out of them in the roasting process to cover up their disgrace.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"Starbuck's starts with mediocre - mediocre + beans"

Seattle's Best is better.

[Gorzaloon]

"My first and only cup of Starbuck's tasted like the tossed out the bean and brewed the sh!t." Starbuck's starts with mediocre - mediocre + beans, then burns the crap out of them in the roasting process to cover up their disgrace.

Don't forget the secret of the brewing!

They make it at 5 AM the day before.

Honestly, it's not "Strong", per se. I like espresso, so that cannot be it.

No, it is just coffee that, if served in a diner in 1960, would have been thrown in the waitress's face.

I have a dear friend, a suspected Democrat (We do not talk about those things for fear of...) who loves the stuff, but I suspect it is because at some point tne NYT ordered her to.