I believe it’s a “breakfast blend”, which if i recall correctly not a Starbucks term but a general term for a type of light roast. Light roasts often have a higher caffeine content because heat naturally gets rid of caffeine, so Breakfast blend = Strong coffee. Ironically Americans equate dark roasts to strong coffee but that’s not really true… perhaps a stronger coffee taste but not caffeine-wise.
You probably already know this, or more info than you care for but figured i’d jump in 
I switched to a light(er) roast because it should contain less acrylamide.
… so you can now eat more bacon instead? 
TBH a toasted bacon buttie is one of the very few times I consider a coffee mandatory.
There are some pretty light roasts that are really low on acrylamide and low on acidity (if you also suffer from acid reflux), one of the best is Monsooned Malabar. I’ve had it myself and is a very delicate cup of coffee but its great and a high quality bean. On the acidity i do know a little bit more: You can also try cold brew if the acidity in the coffee is a particular problem, steeping the coffee in cold or room temperature water avoids the acidity from showing up in the first place. Again you might already know this but pointing it out in case someone else is interested
I mean what you’re asking for is drip coffee. You can walk into any Starbucks or the fanciest coffeeshop in the world and ‘a XX oz cup of drip coffee, please’ will get you what you want.
At a particular Starbucks, they could be serving at least the following entirely different types of coffee, before you factor in flavors or anything crazy that could get into the “NOT REAL COFFEE” stuff people get all worked up about.
All of that comes with customization, etc, but all of the above is basically just coffee and water.
@Grey_Devil got into the different types of roasts, but all you want is what you used to get at every gas station in the world, you just need to ask for a medium drip coffee, and if they ask you what blend, smile and say whatever they suggest, or ‘something bold’.
It’s worth noting that the idea of ‘archetypal example’ is absolutely a cultural thing, and we’re seeing it shift for coffee in the US significantly. But the idea that everywhere in the western world ‘Coffee’ just means drip is crazy. In Italy and environs, they drink espresso. In Britain and much of Europe, it’s overwhelmingly instant coffee. I think a lot of the coffee is Japan is canned coffee drinks.
In the USA it’s historically been ‘black drip coffee, burned beyond recognition and probably from month old pre-ground beans’, but Starbucks was founded almost fifty years ago (and were by no means the only or original coffee shop, but just talking about cultural spread), and the ubiquity of espresso and other coffee drinks is pretty common for the last 10-20 at least.
There we go again. More coffee ‘jargon’.
(And I am in the UK and it’s not all instant any more … sadly. Nor in most of the rest of Europe. I mean, I know we’re backward, but…)
ETA - Penny dropped: drip coffee = filter coffee. Yeah that’s the stuff. One up from instant and nothing else is needed.
Well the Europe thing was definitely secondhand from folks that traveled over there and were unhappy with the coffee, so I’m open to being wrong about it. 
You do know how funny that would be to most coffee-drinking Europeans. The idea of American tourists criticising Europe for bad coffee…
There are 4 star bucks in a 1 mile stretch near where I am… 2 stand alones, one in a BnN and one in a target.
I found it utterly bizarre but heard it from multiple people, so treated it as gospel.
I’m guessing the stores being closed by Starbucks will be converted into Mattress Firm locations.
Depends when (and where) this was. 80s and 90s Britain - yep, instant was your lot.
Germany was filter coffee all the way.
Why I drink tea (not coffee) after lunch
As much as I love coffee this is why I have decaf after the first cup in the morning.
In the morning, I brew up a French press’s worth of coffee, most of which fits in a 20 oz. travel mug. I figure that more or less jibes with this new study:
…at least for now, until the next study about acrylamide comes out.
In hindsight I am not even sure that coffee’s what causes the midnight jitters. Sometimes I get heart palpitations, and decreasing caffeine never seems to affect it. Two things I’ve strongly suspected are phenylephrine (i.e. fake Sudafed) and black (not green) cardamom. As of this week I’ve added ibuprofen (at least, one particular store-brand formula) to that list, as the palpitations went away when I stopped taking it. Of course, this means that I now have to drink more caffeine to compensate, as I was taking the ibuprofen for headaches that are probably caused by caffeine- and/or sleep-deficiency in the first place…
So, about .00001% of total Starbucks?
A modest suburban shopping center near me in. El Cerirto has 3 different Starbucks. A free standing one, one in the grocery store, and one in the Barnes & Noble, all within a hundred yards of each other. I almost expected a fourth one in the Barns & Noble bathroom…
I drink a big mug of coffee in the morning. Think it’s about 2 or 3 cups of coffee, but it’s the only time I drink caffeine during the whole day and I typically don’t have problems sleeping. Don’t understand how other people can drink coffee throughout the day :o
By Grapthar’s Hammer… what a savings.
