Thread: The struggle to continue life without...

Let's all donate our money for these fat lazy bastards who can't make there own coffee or walk across the street for the next Starbucks...god forbid this Yuppies will be caught dead in a Dunkin Donuts or perish the thought...a regular and cheaper mom pop coffee store.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

.......Starbucks!

Starbucks Gets Pleas Not to Close Stores - WSJ.com

Starbucks Gets Pleas Not to Close Stores

By JANET ADAMY and ANNA PRIOR
July 21, 2008; Page A3

Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations it wants to shutter, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.

In towns as small as Bloomfield, N.M., and metropolises as large as New York, customers and city officials are starting to write letters, place phone calls, circulate petitions and otherwise plead with the coffee company to change its mind.

"Now that it's going away, we're devastated," said Kate Walker, a facilities manager for software company SunGard Financial Systems who recently learned of a store closing in New York City.

Her hopes were dashed last week when Starbucks released the list of the stores it plans to close. She jumped on the Internet to find a phone number for the company's main office so she can ask officials to reconsider. "Knowing Starbucks, there's probably [another] one within a few blocks," she said. "But that's probably two blocks too far."

Online, several "Save Our Starbucks" petitions have popped up for stores across the country, including locations in San Diego, Dallas and New York City.

Yay!!! Starbucks is going away!!

starbucks coffee is bitter and nasty. i'm going to my kitchen now to fire up my moka pot and make a nice cup of black coffee. who will give me 3 bucks for it? it will cost me ten cents to make if that. i grew up in logging country, truck stops sell good coffee starbucks sells "oh isn't that special"

Never had one in my life

Does this coffee come with crack? Mine didn't come with it.
I wasn't impressed with it.

I didn't mind their iced coffee, but then again I was on the road and interested in giving them a second shot.

never been there either.

I knew this one chick in high school who was consumed with being trendy. She'd fucking drive 40 minutes just to go to starbucks.

Originally Posted by fufu

consumed with being trendy. .

That is the one thing I hate about people.

I see everyone now with those funny rectangular glasses now, to me they look ugly but it's in style now.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

That is the one thing I hate about people.

I see everyone now with those funny rectangular glasses now, to me they look ugly but it's in style now.

Or those gigantic praying-mantis eye sunglasses?
People are very impressionable.

I was never impressed by starfucks.

Their white chocloate mocha is good. But I like Caribou better.

[QUOTE=Little Wing;1806874]starbucks coffee is bitter and nasty. i'm going to my kitchen now to fire up my moka pot and make a nice cup of black coffee. who will give me 3 bucks for it?QUOTE]

Agreed. I've never liked Starbucks coffee, and it's bitter and over-rated. Starbucks tried a marketing concept based on being 'authentic' and 'original' but in the end....it's a chain.

And it sux.

Starbucks rocks so hard. I am not one for trends. The reason I went there in the first time was because I ran out of Maxwell House. I was on the way to work and saw a Starbucks. I decided to try it out. I fell in love on the first sip.

The reason I keep going back is convenience and espresso. Espresso machines are expensive, and a pain in the ass. I love my Venti coffee with two shots of espresso. I am probably pushing 500mg of caffeine in that one drink.

About half of the stores in Mobile are closing, but my favorite locations aren't going to be one of the stores closed.

I get my Starbucks for free

I got hooked a couple of years ago though. My housemates GF worked there and would bring us pounds and pounds of free coffee. I r addict.

Originally Posted by Little Wing

starbucks coffee is bitter and nasty. i'm going to my kitchen now to fire up my moka pot and make a nice cup of black coffee.

Never tasted bitterness, but coffee that costs more than gasoline is a sham. I haven't looked into it but supposedly the corporate side of Starbucks is more shit than savior, i.e. forcing people off their land and such? Who knows. They are hated by some people, and not just for the coffee but the politics.

Originally Posted by Mudge

Never tasted bitterness, but coffee that costs more than gasoline is a sham. I haven't looked into it but supposedly the corporate side of Starbucks is more shit than savior, i.e. forcing people off their land and such? Who knows. They are hated by some people, and not just for the coffee but the politics.

yea a lot of big companies have dirty little secrets.

Agreed, pretty much all of them probably have done something shady to stay on top at some point. Always justified in one manner or another.

They now have a drink with whey. I haven't tried it yet because it has added fiber, I'm not down with that added fiber. I like the strong drip coffee though!!

They don't have 100% Kona coffee so I don't drink their, hell the gas station has Royal Kona brewed fresh. I really like the Lion Coffee Brand, right now they have Special Edition Kona Peaberry and their Sumatra which are really good. I also love their Espresso and Macadamia flavored blends...

You lucky bastard

Kona isn't readily available here or I would buy it - I got some one time when I went to Hawaii and it was the best coffee I've ever had.

i had an idea once to make coffee-pot. you get caffeinated and stoned at the same time. i don't use weed anymore so this idea is up for grabs. get rich somebody.


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Fuck Starbucks.