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Damn you, Starbucks!Follow
So it's a given. Most Asylumites love the color blue and hate Star Bucks coffee.
Jeebus, Starbucks doesn't taste THAT bad. 
That or my coffee standards aren't too high.
That or my coffee standards aren't too high.
DSD wrote:
So it's a given. Most Asylumites love the color blue and hate Star Bucks coffee.
I hate Starbucks. It's too strong and over priced. Now, Dunkin Donuts on the other hand is the master of coffee!!! I drink at least one cup a day.
Atomicflea wrote:
Starbucks sucks. I like their mocha frappucinos and most of their pre-packaged yums, but their actual coffee, what their business is based upon, is about as tasty as burnt leather soaked in pure ***.
Okay, that one had me giggling for several minutes, and evoked the "I gotta share that one with Mr. Ambrya!" response.
I suppose I should clarify--I never have just plain black coffee at Starbucks. I usually have a mocha, or a mocha frappucino, and even then, it's still bitter! Even in the sweetened drinks, it just sets my teeth on edge. I shouldn't feel the need to add sweetener to a mocha, y'know?
Tare wrote:
It bugs me to see a Starbucks everywhere I go. I'm not sure why.
I knew there was a problem with the whole Starbucks thing about 10 years ago when I was visiting Vancouver BC. There's an intersection on Robson (Vancouver's Miracle Mile type street) that has two Starbucks. On the same intersection! One is on the northwest corner of the intersection, the other is on the southeast corner. So you can sit there sipping your coffee watching people go in and out of another Starbucks. It was weird.
DSD wrote:
I had a friend who worked there years ago and he told me the way they get such a strong (burnt) taste was that they actually over roasted and burnt their beans. So basically Star Bucks coffee is burnt coffee.
Well, that pretty much explains it all.
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The only thing from there I really enjoy is their Cafe Mocha. I really like it, but not as something I need every day.
I don't drink black coffee, but usually once a week or so, I go for a mocha. And this is where I found I preferred Coffee People over Starbucks. With Starbucks, even a mocha with whip seemed like it needed more sugar.
According to my husband, the black coffee isn't better. He was there meeting a client last weekend and ordered a short black coffee (the size not on the menu.) Now, when he has black coffee at home, he adds less than a half a packet of Splenda to sweeten it. If he fills his thermos with coffee at home, he usually adds a whole packet--for four cups. That short black coffee at Starbucks, he said he added TWO packets of Splenda, and it was still bitter.
I don't get it. How did such an empire evolve from shi'tty coffee?
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My advice? Buy a Keurig and check out all the different options out there for it. I have found some amazing coffee that I never would have been able to check out before I bought that coffee maker. Its easy to make a travel size mug of coffee, a lot cheaper in the long run, and better tasting coffee than those giant corporations.
Well, like I said, I rarely drink black coffee, I just have the occasional hankering for a mocha or frappucino-type thingy (at Coffee People they were called Mindfreezers.)
Kaelesh wrote:
It's coffee. Let's not read to much into it.
Monx continues to suffer from the delusion that someone actually cares about his input.
Coffee sucks!
/bends over and awaits spanking from DSD
/bends over and awaits spanking from DSD
MentalFrog wrote:
Coffee sucks!
/bends over and awaits spanking from DSD
/bends over and awaits spanking from DSD
Nah, that just means more coffee goodness for myself ;)
You gotta work harder than that, Mental
Ambrya wrote:
Kaelesh wrote:
It's coffee. Let's not read to much into it.
Monx continues to suffer from the delusion that someone actually cares about his input.
I might have been more responsive to his drivel but I hadn't had my coffee yet.
Ambrya wrote:
I don't get it. How did such an empire evolve from shi'tty coffee?
Skin-puppets jumping on the fashion wagon.
Give me a simple cup straight from Folgers at the house.
Edited, Jan 30th 2007 1:04pm by Kaelesh
DSD wrote:
MentalFrog wrote:
Coffee sucks!
/bends over and awaits spanking from DSD
/bends over and awaits spanking from DSD
Nah, that just means more coffee goodness for myself ;)
You gotta work harder than that, Mental
Okay then.
/Takes coffee maker, beans, brew, sugar, cream and whatever else you use to make coffee and burns it in the incinerator.
Now that should get you all steamed up.
MentalFrog wrote:
DSD wrote:
MentalFrog wrote:
Coffee sucks!
/bends over and awaits spanking from DSD
/bends over and awaits spanking from DSD
Nah, that just means more coffee goodness for myself ;)
You gotta work harder than that, Mental
Okay then.
/Takes coffee maker, beans, brew, sugar, cream and whatever else you use to make coffee and burns it in the incinerator.
Now that should get you all steamed up.
Steamed! HA HA! A coffee joke! Steamed...get it? Aww ***** it...
Edited, Jan 30th 2007 1:12pm by Kaelesh
Ambrya wrote:
I knew there was a problem with the whole Starbucks thing about 10 years ago when I was visiting Vancouver BC. There's an intersection on Robson (Vancouver's Miracle Mile type street) that has two Starbucks. On the same intersection! One is on the northwest corner of the intersection, the other is on the southeast corner. So you can sit there sipping your coffee watching people go in and out of another Starbucks. It was weird.
Southeast Corner Represent!
That's actually kinda cool.
Ambrya wrote:
Monx continues to suffer from the delusion that someone actually cares about his input.
lol, I'm not the one that thinks there's problems with consumers voluntarily purchasing coffee from buninesses voluntarily selling coffee. The problem is you fool. Your medicine too good for you to taste or something?
DSD wrote:
Exactly. Like DSD, I prefer to make my own from home. I love my travel coffee mug as it keeps my coffee warm for hours on end and I enjoy trying different coffee beans.
It's also a hell of a lot cheaper than paying ridiculous amounts of money for Starbucks coffee - I do like my Venti Soy Mochas on the rare occasion or something similar (not necessarily a Starbucks shop), but I don't frequent them on a daily or even weekly basis like I used to.
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So it's a given. Most Asylumites love the color blue and hate Star Bucks coffee.
Exactly. Like DSD, I prefer to make my own from home. I love my travel coffee mug as it keeps my coffee warm for hours on end and I enjoy trying different coffee beans.
It's also a hell of a lot cheaper than paying ridiculous amounts of money for Starbucks coffee - I do like my Venti Soy Mochas on the rare occasion or something similar (not necessarily a Starbucks shop), but I don't frequent them on a daily or even weekly basis like I used to.
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I'm related to the Starbucks. Kiss my burning bean ***.
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I do like my Venti Soy Mochas
OMG these were simply awful!!! I tried one while I was off milk for awhile in the hopes that it would be a substitute for a mocha. I took one sip and spit it out. I just can not do soy
The first coffee that I like as a kid was espresso, made either in an old fashion express pot or French Press. By th time I was 18 I would take it with just a twist of lemon peel. I like a good dark roast coffee, but not burnt.
I can't stand Starbucks coffee, as no amount of sugar and cream will take away the bitterness. If I find myself having to buy from them anything, it always a cup of Honesty Tea.
I sometimes will get a cup of coffee at Caribou Coffee, when I take the bus. They also make a great cup of Irish Breakfast Blend tea and have a cranberry orange scone, that are wonderfully filled with fresh orange peel.
I can't stand Starbucks coffee, as no amount of sugar and cream will take away the bitterness. If I find myself having to buy from them anything, it always a cup of Honesty Tea.
I sometimes will get a cup of coffee at Caribou Coffee, when I take the bus. They also make a great cup of Irish Breakfast Blend tea and have a cranberry orange scone, that are wonderfully filled with fresh orange peel.
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Yeah, my folks got me hooked on Soy when I visited them down in Los Angeles about 4 years ago. I can't drink milk anymore except for the occassional ice cream. I don't mind soy mochas at all.
At home though, I still use Carnation hazlenut creamer instead of soy because it is pretty nasty using soy in my home coffee. But in my cereal, it rocks. I've hooked other folks on it it. Call me the Soy Pusher Man.
All this talk of coffee - I'm gonna make a cup now.
(We need a coffee drinking smiley!)
At home though, I still use Carnation hazlenut creamer instead of soy because it is pretty nasty using soy in my home coffee. But in my cereal, it rocks. I've hooked other folks on it it. Call me the Soy Pusher Man.
All this talk of coffee - I'm gonna make a cup now.
(We need a coffee drinking smiley!)'Lo, there do I see, the line of my people, back to the beginning, 'lo do they call to me, they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave...may live...forever.
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Soy is not Milk. It's not Pepperoni, it's not a HotDog. It's not anything other then a fucking BEAN!
Keep away from my coffee. **** is vile.
Keep away from my coffee. **** is vile.
Coffee? EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
bye!
bye!
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Damn you, Starbucks!
Thanks, now I have to walk down to the corner to get some...you just had to bring up Starbucks, didn't you?
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Isn't it strange that putting something ON makes you look more nude?
why are you linking dirty FFXIer stuff when I said Asylumites, Thumb? *confused*
Blue is ugly.
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