18
Jan
Does it matter if Starbucks sucks?
The fundamental problem with Starbucks is that, bottomline, their coffee is beyond awful. You probably couldnt even call it coffee to be honest. It’s more like a bland tasting - burnt if you’re lucky - brown water. When a run of the mill instant coffee tastes better you know you’ve got problems.
Yet people flock to it. Why? That’s the part i don’t get. Especially here in Melbourne where we actually have choice. I’m not talking about a choice between Hudson’s Coffee, Gloria Jeans and Starbucks, i’m talking about coffee from real cafes. I guess that’s the thing. Starbucks’s bread and butter is more likely to be their chemical-laden, calorific, cream topped bullshit sugar drinks than an actual espresso or flat white.
Ideally coffee should be fair trade and organically grown (the amount of pesticides used is enough to put you off regular coffee) so if you support Starbucks not only do you have no taste but you’re also a total asshole.
For a straight caffeine hit i’d recommend a No-Doz.
— reblogged via jessicalouise
Ok. You and my life coach Denis ‘Coffee Flavored Coffee’ Leary are right. And I know they are evil, very evil. However, in my defence…
1. There is a lack of real cafes in the Brisbane CBD.
2. Where else can you ask to be called The Robot, Batman or Keyser Soze when you order and then they call it out like it is real?
3. “We met at Starbucks” from Best in Show.
4. There are Big Issue sellers outside of Starbucks so I always go buy a magazine and talk to them instead of standing in line with the suits. Makes point #2 all the more fun when I’m late and they call my fake name out loud multiple times.
5.Triple espresso anything on their menu and it tastes wonderful.
