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post #31 of 39
12/14/06 at 7:30pm
Yes! Honestly I'd rather drink coffee (or tea) totally cold than very hot. Sometimes I'll ask people if something is hot before taking a sip and they'll say "No, not at all" and then I'll burn my mouth so bad my eyes water. I wish, really, that iced coffee meant coffee on ice and not whatever those things usually are.
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post #32 of 39
12/15/06 at 5:24am
I usually ask for a few ice cubs on the bottom of the cup. People look at me funny too, but when I order coffee, I want to drink it NOW, not in 10 minutes!
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post #33 of 39
12/15/06 at 6:06am
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Originally Posted by tiffanyjbt View Post
I usually ask for a few ice cubs on the bottom of the cup. People look at me funny too, but when I order coffee, I want to drink it NOW, not in 10 minutes!
EXACTLY!!

I know they have to brew at a certain temperature, for health reasons...but still!!

I'm a coffee addict and personally if I don't drink it before leaving in the morning, then my driving abilities are like that of a drunk person. It doesn't make sense for me to get on the road, pick up coffee, and then be able to drink it by the time I pull in to work...taking up 3 parking spaces.
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post #34 of 39
12/15/06 at 6:57am
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Originally Posted by 2dogmom View Post
They can't even call their coffee SIZES something normal like small, medium, large, etc, that has to sound like a description of a seizure.
So after I finished cleaning up the tea I snorted through my nose laughing at this ...

Personally, I think Starbucks coffee tastes gross. It's kind of ... I don't know ... burnt or stale-tasting? I've never understood the Starbucks fixation.

The town I live in has one Starbucks, and it's attached to the Chapters (which I've always considered a brilliant marketing ploy: read a book while you drink your coffee). Starbucks doesn't tend to do well here because of fair trade issues (which I'm not well-versed in, unfortunately); this being a university town with a lot of student activists, Starbucks is often boycotted against -- I don't think it would be profitable for them to open a second store here. Besides, Tim Hortons has a strong hold on southwestern Ontario.
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post #35 of 39
12/15/06 at 5:21pm
Eh. Starbucks...one of those things you can't possibly avoid in this day and age. There are a lot of really good coffee shops around here...but there are also some really BAD coffee shops around here, and I actually just had this conversation with my fellow adoption counselors at the shelter....sometimes it's tastier and less pretentious to go to Starbucks in certain parts of the city than the indy shops (also SBucks is sometimes cheaper, which is scary). The only things I ever order from there are shaken black iced tea (the largest size, which should be called alto grande but is called venti, with 3 pumps of plain simple syrup), skim iced vanilla lattes or skim no-whip pumpkin spice lattes. PSLattes are the only thing I haven't been able to find anywhere else. And the selection of teas at SBucks, for lack of a better word, sucks. A high-brow coffee shop should be serving loose tea, not some bagged garbage.

I read this big thing about how Starbucks is trying to franchise directly across the street from existing Starbucks, basically to cut down on wait time. Kind of out of hand!
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post #36 of 39
12/21/06 at 8:36am
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Originally Posted by Jen View Post
At the coffee shop I work at, I love when people come in and order Caramel Macchiatos and I had them a tiny cup with a shot of espresso with a drop of cream on top and a shot of caramel syrup in it (gross) just to see the look on their faces. Sure that is kinda mean and I have to remake the drink heh. Starbucks makes Macchiatos with milk and that is where everyone gets it from, a macchiato does not contain milk. What starbucks makes would be I don't know, some sort of latte? So when people come in and order a caramel macchiato I give them just that, the shot of espresso with the cream on top and caramel syrup mixed in. We are not Starbucks!!
I have to say, that's my favorite drink. They actually make it with vanilla flavoring, milk, espresso and caramel drizzled on top. If I had an espresso machine, I'd save myself a LOT of money by making it myself. If they don't make it right, I'll remember not to order it elsewhere.

Btw, it's also delicious iced.
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post #37 of 39
12/21/06 at 8:00pm
I'm about as close to Starbucks as a person can get. They not only call Seattle home and employ up to 2000 here, but I'm a professional recruiter and although they have their own human resources team, the firm I work for holds the staffing contract for them in the Seattle area. Starbucks generally is a good company with a good heart. Because they try to hold themselves to a higher standard of "social responsibility" they intentionally shy away from supplying their coffee products on a large scale in those endeavors that would be considered political. Let me put it in perspective: giving money to third world nations to improve their water or underwrite a cottage water business that turns into a major supplier for the bottled water sold in all Starbucks is very different than supplying coffee products to the troops overseas, regardless of which side you favor. Subsidizing farmers in equatorial and impoverished coffee producing nations is another example. Supplying coffee to the winter olympics to warm skiers, etc, another. It is true they do not support the war, but the comments were taken out of context and applied to whatever media or source decided to interpret them. I'm no expert on Starbucks but being in Seattle you can't help but talk about this stuff.
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post #38 of 39
12/23/06 at 10:31am
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Originally Posted by Mirinae View Post
The town I live in has one Starbucks, and it's attached to the Chapters (which I've always considered a brilliant marketing ploy: read a book while you drink your coffee). Starbucks doesn't tend to do well here because of fair trade issues (which I'm not well-versed in, unfortunately); this being a university town with a lot of student activists, Starbucks is often boycotted against -- I don't think it would be profitable for them to open a second store here. Besides, Tim Hortons has a strong hold on southwestern Ontario.
We have a few here now but they really can not even pretend to compete with the line ups at Timmys, and before I would set foot in a starbucks, I would go to Second Cup anyway.
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post #39 of 39
12/25/06 at 1:45am
i like the mocha lattes..but steve gets free gift cards once in a while and i use those to get them. i wont pay that much for coffee....not really a drinker anyways.

but, steve has become addicted to the new stuff from cariabou...obsidian..i have to get him a bag here and there so he can have that instead of his maxwell house...
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