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I too feel their prices for a double shot are reasonable. I hardly ever drink the stuff with milk/cream in it. Like 338WIN says, if you don't like semi-dark roasted coffee, don't go to Starbucks. I personally prefer Peets here in the SF bay area, and their roasting makes Starbucks look awfully girly.

And what relevance does Jackie Mason have to real life anyway. Give me a break.

Art, you may not like Starbucks, but if you are a real coffee lover, I know you got to have a favorite drive through place up there in Los Anchorage. And I bet you're paying more than a buck for 16 oz of coffee too. Come on and fess up <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

And, I have personal knowledge of one of our other CA posters(who shall remain nameless) that spends a good bit more than a buck on coffee, but I think a good part of this is because the store owner happens to be a cutie.

Lastly, you wan't lousy coffee, go to China. Two and a half weeks without a real coffee, much less an espresso. I even brought back some Hainanese beans, thinking it was the way they brewed it, and not necessarily the fault of the beans or roasting process. Nope, this stuff is for girls like you that don't know the pleasure of a good, strong, dark roast. I got a half a kilo of this to drink. I'm taking it to work....

With all due respect to you drinkers of watery girly coffee <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
Scott

capt_e
As I sit here smugly drinking my second monster mug of coffee, stout enough to kill large barnyard animals with but a single dose, I have to agree I cannot take girly coffee. But Starbucks ain't girly, it's ruined by burning rather than roasting. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

As for Jackie Mason, a little Jewish angst humor goes a long way with me, but I found a lot of this very insightful, even clever.

You think China is bad? Try NY! Have you ever been to a classy restaurant and had them serve instant coffee? It can only happen in NY... I think... Though I cannot actuallt comment on China because I've never been, the coffee in Taiwan was good, must have been the evil American influence. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
art

Well I just finished my Tim Hortons X-large double double, have not been to a Starbucks in sometime now.
It was not bad, but pricey and Tim Hortons is good enough for me, till hunting season, where I can get the good camp coffee.
Bill

SD, I can't speak to Taiwan, for the same reason you can't speak about China.. But the "directions for use" on the bag of Hainanese beans say to pour the fresh grounds into boiling water. Blech, boiled coffee :P~~~~~

And serving instant in a classy restaraunt is not just a NY phenomenon. There are cheap b*****ds everywhere. May they be forced to drink lukewarm Sanka eternally during the afterlife.

I still haven't had a double shot since I've been back. I may be on a mission for two items that have been missing from my diet for the past three weeks. A big bad burrito with jalapedos and a double espresso. I pity the person that has to use the bathroom after me this afternoon <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Regards,
Scott

Y'all and your sissy drinks, have a good cup of ol Chicory coffee and then you can talk COFFEE!

I really don't mind Starbucks coffee when I'm in the mood to blow a couple bucks and no guns, ammo, or girly magazines are around. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
The worse thing is the copycat coffee shops around town. I'm not sure what their hiring policies are, but it seems every one hires from the same alternative newspapers. Every time I go into a "Coffee People" or some place like that I'm "served" by someone, usually a girl (I think), with the weird colored hair, white base makeup with black lipstick, eyebrow pencil, and nail polish, and enough rings in her eyebrows, ears, nose, lips, navel, and other appendages- all in plain view- to build a nice Rem. 700 out of. More than once I've left quickly after telling the would-be waittress that I suddenly lost my appetite. I'm sure they are still wondering why.

There is a coffee roasting place right next to one of the supply houses I go to and the smell of roasting beans is just incredible some days, especially the days they are making the Irish Cream and other specialty coffees. I love the smell even though I can't drink the oil cured coffees anymore.- Sheister