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RE: 87,000 possible coffee combinations at starbucks... - 1/12/2013 10:27:08 AM

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$3.50 for a cup of coffee? what? is the stuff laced with gold? they going to have some hot babe give you a blowjob under the table?

I can get a cup of decent, if weak, coffee at Denny's for less than that.

I don't make a habit of visiting the actual Starbucks stores for cups of coffee but when I have I have never ever ever ever ever ever paid $3.50 for a large coffee. Never. I don't know what Starbucks you visit. Wait - you don't even go there. How the fuck would you know what it costs?

I really don't get all the anti-Starbucks sentiment that exists. I guess I can understand the sentiment against the Starbucks mentality but that's really no different from any coffee shop I have been in. People rave about this little one off coffee shop in town here. It's a nice little place but it isn't fundamentally any different from a Starbucks. I think Starbucks coffee itself is good (especially the Italian Roast) and if you are a careful shopper and have a triple digit IQ you can find it at reasonable prices.

Actually, I got the price off their website.

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RE: 87,000 possible coffee combinations at starbucks... - 1/12/2013 10:48:39 AM

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I have tried Starbucks coffee several times.

It's bitter, oily, burnt, and leaves a nasty, horrible, after-taste.
And it's a kings ransome to boot!!

The last time I had a 'standard' cafe latte in Starbucks (about 2 months ago), it cost me £3.75.
At today's exchange rate (1.61), that works out at $6.05!!!!
What a rip-off!
And I couldn't really drink it - it was awful.
I had to have decent coffee half an hour later to get the awful taste out of my mouth.

They sell it here at the supermarkets for home brew but it's more than 3x the price of the ground coffee we buy.
I'll be sticking to our colombian blend - much nicer

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RE: 87,000 possible coffee combinations at starbucks... - 1/12/2013 11:24:15 AM

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In truth I am against any "gourmet" coffee shops.

They are overpriced, pretentious, and unnecessary.

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RE: 87,000 possible coffee combinations at starbucks... - 1/12/2013 11:38:43 AM

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Actually, and I don't even like Starbucks very much, but let's be realistic about pricing.

jlf says "$3.50 for a cup of coffee." According to Starbucks' Price List, A Cup of Coffee runs between $1.45-$1.75, depending on size.

It's the specialty espresso drinks (with flavors, etc.) that run $3.25-4.25, depending on size.

Nobody is paying $3.50 "for a cup of coffee" at Starbucks.

As for gourmet coffees, well, the Mister jokingly calls me a coffee snob because I am super particular about my coffee. I buy Peet's Major Dickesons. It's strong, rich, smooth, and delicious. I don't like most other coffees and there are some coffees I just can't drink at all. It's a taste preference thing.

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RE: 87,000 possible coffee combinations at starbucks... - 1/12/2013 12:04:26 PM

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NV is correct. The specialty drinks are expensive but the regular old light, medium and bold roasts are less than $2.

I'll go to Starbucks in a pinch but really think their coffee beans are way over roasted and often bitter.

Given the choice I'd rather make french press at home with Intelligentsia or Stumptown beans, but I'm snobby like that.

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RE: 87,000 possible coffee combinations at starbucks... - 1/12/2013 12:10:03 PM

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Isnt this over kill?

I mean coffee, strong, two sugars, light cream and it must melt the metal spoon is all I ever needed.

Who the fuck needs 87000 possible coffee combinations?

I cant even imagine how long it would take you to drink that many cups of coffee to try each one.

79.45 years to try every variety at 3 cups a day (87000/3=29000/365=79.45). So basically, one would have to start drinking Starbucks coffee at the age of about 3 to try every variety, lol.

Personally, I don't like their regular coffee at all. I'm a caramel macchiato (with at least one extra shot) fan, and that's really the only kind of coffee I drink. It is expensive, but I only drink it once in a while as a treat, since I don't really drink coffee at all.

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RE: 87,000 possible coffee combinations at starbucks... - 1/12/2013 12:11:09 PM

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Actually, and I don't even like Starbucks very much, but let's be realistic about pricing.

jlf says "$3.50 for a cup of coffee." According to Starbucks' Price List, A Cup of Coffee runs between $1.45-$1.75, depending on size.

It's the specialty espresso drinks (with flavors, etc.) that run $3.25-4.25, depending on size.

Nobody is paying $3.50 "for a cup of coffee" at Starbucks.

As for gourmet coffees, well, the Mister jokingly calls me a coffee snob because I am super particular about my coffee. I buy Peet's Major Dickesons. It's strong, rich, smooth, and delicious. I don't like most other coffees and there are some coffees I just can't drink at all. It's a taste preference thing.

As I said, I got the price off the website. The search I used might have yielded the wrong results.

However, there is a local gourmet coffee shop that has 8 varieties of plain coffee, and the prices range from $1.25 a cup to $6 a cup, depending on which coffee you order.

There is also a coffee bean that has passed through the digestive tract of an Asian Elephant and it costs $50 a cup. There is also civet coffee refers to the beans of coffee berries once they have been eaten and excreted by the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other civets.

Civet coffee can cost between $30 and $80 a cup.

Now, I am not crazy about ingesting anything that has passed through the gut of an animal.

Of course there is the only domestically produced coffee in the US, that is grown in Hawaii and can cost $60 a pound.

What is wrong with maxwell house?

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RE: 87,000 possible coffee combinations at starbucks... - 1/12/2013 12:23:10 PM

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What is wrong with maxwell house?

Not a thing, if you like it. To me, it tastes like crap.

It's like asking me the difference between Far Niente Chardonnay and Two Buck Chuck. And yes, I *have* noted the difference in a blind taste test!!

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RE: 87,000 possible coffee combinations at starbucks... - 1/12/2013 12:32:32 PM

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What is wrong with maxwell house?

Not a thing, if you like it. To me, it tastes like crap.

It's like asking me the difference between Far Niente Chardonnay and Two Buck Chuck. And yes, I *have* noted the difference in a blind taste test!!

Actually I buy coffee beans at the store and grind them there, for about $1 more than the store brand coffee.

As for wines, I prefer a Moselle to anything else.

Now if you want to talk whiskey, the best I have ever drank was distilled by my great uncle Roosevelt and put in a cask in 1942. Uncle Roosevelt distills about 15 gallons of whiskey a month, 5 sour mash corn whiskey, 5 Gallons of a blend of corn and rye mash, and finally 5 gallons of a barley whiskey. He then puts it in charred casks he has made locally and stores it in the highest part of his barn.

Uncle Roosevelt is 87 years old and has passed on the recipes to his grand son. Since they do not sell it, technically they are not bootlegging.

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