Lou FCD
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| Quote (dogdidit @ May 23 2008,13:45) | | Quote (Lou FCD @ May 23 2008,11:56) | | Quote (Alan Fox @ May 23 2008,11:31) | | Bloody hell you read a lot into my post. No really, what is Starbucks? |
A coffee house chain that's based in (ahem) Seattle of all places.
The coffee's mediocre, the prices are outrageous, and it's the place to see and be seen by the mindless hordes of lemmings that wouldn't know good coffee if it bit them.
Most irritating of all, instead of ordering your coffee in small, medium, or large, it crashes right through the stupid and pretentious barrier by labeling its sizes as "tall, venti, and grande" (or maybe vice versa on the last two, I forget). |
Tall, grande, and venti, in that order. You can actually get small, medium, and large sizes, too. They just don't advertise them. (Americans prefer their coffee supersized, along with everything else.)
Alan, Starbucks is coffee almost as good as the average coffee served throughout Europe and South America. It is head and shoulders better than the thin swill that typically passes for coffee here in the states (what my Dutch friends call "look-through coffee"). Other than that, Starbucks is indeed mediocre and over-priced. But when you can't find anything that meets your standards, lower your standards. Hence I go there often. :) It's really good coffee!! |
Don't listen to him, Alan. It's little more than warm water with a few coffee grounds and a magic prayer waved over it.
My daughter brings me the frozen coffee drinks from time to time, and I like them, but don't tell anyone. You'll ruin my coffee-curmudgeon reputation.
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