Why All the Hating on Starbucks?

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by classicman

That is so effed up, cloud. I dislike starbucks - got coffee there a couple times - didn't think much of it either. Certainly not worth the price.

We have a Great Harvest right next to a Starbucks coffee. I always make a beeline for G.H. For a dollar and a half I can get the best cup of coffee in there. It's called Tully's.

For 3 xs that much I can get a burnt cup with half a pound of sugar in it from Starbucks. No wonder people are mad. :p Except me. I'm smiling when I walk past those bitter sippers.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

So stick to the 12oz of brewed for a buck sixty. Come on.

Or only drink large lattes at home, homemade.

I can go to a wawa and get a 24 oz of Hazelnut for $1.54 - yup thats twice as much coffee for the same price AND it is actually enjoyable, unlike Starbucks which just tastes burnt. I hate when they just pump a flavor, whatever flavor, into an already lousy cup of coffee & then shovel sugar into it. It is not the same as having them brewed together.
I find it ridiculously overpriced and of sub par flavor, taste &/or quality. For 3-5 times the price too - you gotta be kidding :
Diff'rent strokes, I guess.

Originally Posted by skysidhe

We have a Great Harvest right next to a Starbucks coffee. I always make a beeline for G.H. For a dollar and a half I can get the best cup of coffee in there. It's called Tully's.

For 3 xs that much I can get a burnt cup with half a pound of sugar in it from Starbucks. No wonder people are mad. :p Except me. I'm smiling when I walk past those bitter sippers.

You and me both!

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

We have a Great Harvest right next to a Starbucks coffee. I always make a beeline for G.H.

I'm moving across the country this weekend, to a town with 2 Great Harvest Bread Companies. I am going to be in heaven as soon as I get a job and can actually afford the stuff...

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

For a dollar and a half I can get the best cup of coffee in there. It's called Tully's.
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We have a Tully's here and it is straight ass mixed with essence of more ass. Seriously, it's on the side of the package.

I don't like Starbuck's coffee much but I do like some of the mixed drinks.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by lookout123

We have a Tully's here and it is straight ass mixed with essence of more ass. Seriously, it's on the side of the package.

I don't like Starbuck's coffee much but I do like some of the mixed drinks.

lol

well that tells you how bad I think Starbucks is if comparison is any measure. It must be worse than I think if I think ass tasting Tully's is better.


SOO what coffee do you like?

I like African, Indonesian and Kona coffees. I also like Seattle's Best and Boyd coffees too.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

So stick to the 12oz of brewed for a buck sixty. Come on.

Or only drink large lattes at home, homemade.

Smashing up a Starbucks just tells me antiglobalists are morons. As if more proof were needed. Oughtta slam their cocks in that 164-degree dishwasher -- and run it. It's not like their thinking could get any worse that way, and it might actually take a turn for the better.

And no, Starbuck's coffee is hardly crap. 'Smatter you?? West Virginia roadside coffee -- now there's crap.

[Cloud]

the Coffee Traveler for $13 is a great deal. Show up in the morning at the office with one of those and you're a hero.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Seriously. Starbuck's, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Peet's... they're all good, all using high-end beans. There's nothing to choose between them for quality of brew, every one of 'em knows their stuff, and the little independent places are as good. Their sole advantage is they can market bumper stickers that say "Friends don't let friends drink Starbuck's" which I just find cheerfully capitalistic and vibrantly competitive.

[TheMercenary]

eh, their coffee is over roasted. Not my first choice. Dunkin Donuts coffee is da bomb.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

eh, their coffee is over roasted. Not my first choice. Dunkin Donuts coffee is da bomb.

Can't find much Dunkin' Donuts around my end of SoCal, though I remember liking it very much in places where I could... youth in South Dakota, in the Seventies. [Website says there are none within fifty miles of me.]

Now are you sure you actually want to taste your coffee? Because light roasts and some mediums just... lack something. A robustness. A forthright declaration. I'm still trying to figure out what the deal is with Kona, as every cup I've had of Kona blends even from high-end roasters and shippers like Lion has been unmemorable. Okay, but no dark roast.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Now are you sure you actually want to taste your coffee? Because light roasts and some mediums just... lack something. A robustness. A forthright declaration. I'm still trying to figure out what the deal is with Kona, as every cup I've had of Kona blends even from high-end roasters and shippers like Lion has been unmemorable. Okay, but no dark roast.

That is because Kona (like Jamaica Blue Mountain) should not be a blend ... the stuff's so darn expensive, though, that's why you rarely see it as a stand-alone bean. What varies wildly is the percentage of Kona to non-Kona beans. I suspect that most of them contain the minimum amount to still be considered Kona. Kind of like Hawaiian Punch saying it's made of fruit juice, when the actual juice content is 7-10%.

In other news, I also prefer a dark roasted coffee.

[glatt]

We stayed near Kona on the last few days of our honeymoon. 15 years ago.

Kona coffee:

[Sundae]

McDonalds are far more of a target in this country than Starbucks.
But then we had the McLibel trial, which showed the strong arm of corporate restaurants at its very very nastiest.

Also it sells meat, which doesn't endear it to many minority interests (whether religious, moral or green based ideology). And of course it's despised by those who grew up seeing it as cheap and nasty - I've heard plenty of middle & upper class people boast about never having eaten a McDonalds in their life, as if it's on a par swimming across the Channel for Sport Relief. Meh.

I don't drink coffee, so Starbucks doesn't bother me. In fact many Brits aren't that interested in it. It does mean it's mildly annoying when the franchise in a bookshop or a supermarket is a Starbucks, because we'd prefer something home-grown - with crumpets and muffins and teacakes, and proper tea, more tea Vicar? thank you. But not enough to really bother us.

[TheMercenary]

Yea, I couldn't understand why they would even attempt the UK market unless they went to all tea.

[wolf]

Dunkin' Donuts used to be good, but all of the local franchises have gotten taken over by Pakistanis, and those guys can't make coffee to save their lives, despite having a standardized recipe from corporate!

Wawa all the way for me.