Oh my gosh, a marketing op, at the Olympics?
Is nothing sacred?
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Well done, sir. Well done. I will cop to liking Starbucks. But I always load up my coffee with cream and sugar regardless of who the maker is. Can I tell crappy coffee? Yes. Is it Starbucks? Generally not, in my opinion.
What would you coffee hipsters and snobs have to rail about if Starbucks hadnāt brought a better quality of coffee to the unwashed masses?
Major record labels
Google workers
Computer/phone brands
Rude motorists encountered while biking on busy urban roads
Kony
Vinyl (h/t @semiotix)
I think something like
āHoward Johnsonās Coffeeā
would be more in line with the question, but as you have demonstrated there are more than enough things to complain about.
As for Starbucks - It is the reasonable choice for me within walking distance. To get better I would have to drive. I would not have to drive far but it is an hour walk to better coffee. Starbucks has improved the coffee situation in many places.
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Geeze, ANOTHER Yeti Gland Coffee drinker who thinks theyāre ahead of the curve.
Sir? SIR? I just spent the last four years steaming in a hot box and youāre sirring me?
Anyway. I can think of more than a few brownwater diners, greasy spoons, dive bars, and sketchy delis that have far worse coffee than Starbucks. So yeah, if the āworst coffee youāve ever hadā was at a ubiquitous chain store, yeāve not sampled nearly enough dregs.
Signed,
The Anti-Hyberbolist
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Well, apparently my time of sirring you is coming to a middle.
Iāve drank my fair share of lousy coffee, pale watery stuff, burnt swill out of the bottom of the office Bunn, but I could not tell you where those were, forgotten like a leaf on the wind. As bad as many of those were, none were like the wake up call of charred over-roasted crap that Starbucks served to me as some kind of pretentious quality brew. They are consistent, and after repeated violations if I now ever find myself to order a beverage at a Starbucks Iāll have tea (and FWIW that is unremarkably mediocre, but not offensive). Iāve had plenty of bad coffee. Starbucks is the worst.
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Jesus wants his cross back.
The real shame here is that if you told them you didnāt like what you paid for, they would refund you, and probably offer you a free tea, which you like. But what would fuel your outrage then?
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Iāve no outrage, and no interest in martyrdom - its just simply the worst coffee Iāve ever had. Iāve no interest in chronicling such things - they just declare themselves.
I was not aware of their refund policy, if you are correct. Iāll keep that in mind if I ever find myself faced with the dilemma.
Iām surprised my expressed distaste would solicit any response. If Iāve offended any Starbucks fans, my apologies. And if you actually think their coffee tastes good, well good for you. Enjoy.
Itās not your distaste that solicited a response it was you chronicling such things while saying things like
That actually is martyring yourself.
'4. colloq, usually derog
Someone who wishes or chooses to be or to be seen as a suffering victim, especially in circumstances which they could have chosen to avoid.
Exactly. āSynergy, Lemon.ā
Expressing my distaste for Starbucks does not equal being a victim.
My saying their coffee tastes bad is just saying their coffee tastes bad.
It is not saying that Starbucks did bad coffee to me.
Sorry, but you are projecting your own conclusions.
none were like the wake up call of charred over-roasted crap that Starbucks served to me as some kind of pretentious quality brew
Yes, Iām sure its always other people projecting. And itās everyone else who is pretentious, too.
I donāt mean to pick a fight. Have a good day.
If the coffeeās acidic, you could replace that pinch of salt with a slightly bigger pinch of baking soda.
Sometimes I grind up 5T of beans, throw it in a pint Mason jar overnight, and run it through the drip-coffee-maker filter. Viola, cold coffee.
Wow, one Starbucks for 200,000 people. As it should be. I live in a town thatās 10% the population of Wellington and there are three. Admittedly, itās a college town, one is on campus, one is in a Barnes and Noble, and the third is in a grocery store (yes, really.) But three Starbucks in a town of 26k? And theyāre hardly the only coffee shops. Itās like the 90s took a crap on our little town.
Yeah, Starbucks was the company that raised the bar here in the U.S. Itās hip to hate it because there really are better coffees to be had, but if you were to come to the U.S. in 1989 and order a cup of coffee, you would have had something that only vaguely resembles the āhorribleā coffee Iām sipping right now.
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People have different tastes. To me? All coffee is horrible. NBC folks like Starbucks? Good for them for finding a way to bring it in despite the Olympic sponsorship monopoly.
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