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Your being a tad naughty again STEED :hmm:

Just got this from a Starbucks company director.....special delivery http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellit...115[1].gif http://xylo.xy.ohost.de/images/smilies/36_5_8.gif

The Times reported what we all knew, Starbucks sucks. :p :rotfl: :p :rotfl: :p

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Starbucks. Tried it twice. Both times did not get coffee, but who-knows-what. "Grauslige Plürre."

Want to have the real taste? Make espresso, in a manual machine, no automatic thing. According to the Italian's national institute for espresso culture (no joke, that thing really exists), an original espresso must have 25-30 ml espresso per cup, brewed with 2.6-3.0 mg Espresso powder per 10 ml finished liquid. Press it tightly until it almost is a tablet, there are special stamps for that. The machine must create steam pressure between 11 and 15 bar, temperature not below 93°C, the ready liquid in your cup must have passed through the powder in 12-15 seconds. You do not want a fully light (=underextracted) and no fully dark (=overextracted) cream, but a spotted cream - then it is done right. Use much sugar, drink while hot.

No coffee comes even close to that. :up: Believe me, my espressos are enjoying legendary reputation over here. :D

But Green Tea (Sencha) or Roibosch Tea isn't bad either. :lol:

A true lover of coffee. :up:

Starbucks is just rubbish. I don't want nice atmosphere and a fancy looking shop with something they call ambiance. I just want bloody good coffee. Is that not too much to ask? :damn:

At times, in London.....yes :lol:

Over 12,000 posts Jim you like your coffee.:rotfl:

Nope, can't usually stand the stuff.....but I love my station desktop and Blackberry whilst out on the streets http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...es/wolfcop.gif

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Dont Know about Starbucks in Australia but we do have another chain thats like it called "Gloria Jeans" - if Starbucks is anything like them then I shudder , I bought 1 cup once when their first store opened near me , payed some over inflated price for a cup of I dont know what it was but it wasnt coffee:down:

Ive got my own esspresso machine and coffee that I pay $22au a kilo for:up:

One thing for sure, as long as Starbucks is prospering, it's a sign that a lot of people have plenty of $$$. $3.75 for coffee is steep.

On the horizon: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22804805/

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Originally Posted by danlisa

The quality of Starbucks ( & other 'Coffee Shops) was shown to me the first time I went into one of the stores....

"Hi, I'll have a Black Coffee please"

"Sorry we don't serve plain Coffee"

WTF!!!:damn: :damn: What kind of coffee shop doesn't sell old fashioned plain black coffee.

I don't like artsy fartsy, namby pamby girly 'coffee'.:stare:

That reminds me of that DI from The Thin Blue Line:

"Hoity Toity, Snooty Tooty, Mamby Pamby...Fannying about!"

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Next time I'm in the town I will pin up the article in my Starbucks when no one is looking. :shifty:

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Next time I'm in the town I will pin up the article in my Starbucks when no one is looking. :shifty:

Look out for the craftily hidden securuity cameras.....people have been lifted for less, (if of course the company find it detrimental to their business) ;)

You know what? Starbucks hasn't arrived to Sweden yet!:o

During my visit in New York earlier this month, I noticed this about the Starbuvks chain:

It's everywhere....until you look for it....then you'll never find it.

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Next time I'm in the town I will pin up the article in my Starbucks when no one is looking. :shifty:

Look out for the craftily hidden securuity cameras.....people have been lifted for less, (if of course the company find it detrimental to their business) ;)

Plan B

P*ss in the coffee cup and complain, while there busy kissing my butt whamo up it goes. :D

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Tell us something new. :lol: :roll:

There coffee sucks and tastes like something from the deepest ocean.

I've always felt that way about their coffee, like it was burned or something like that.

Personally, I never do anything but Dunkin' Donuts coffee. My day just doesn't start without it.

"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of java that the thoughts aquire speed,
the hands aquire shaking, the shaking become a warning.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion."

Starbucks gets cheap Colombian coffee, which is about the lousiest coffee in the world. Then it over-roasts it to give it more flavor with the smallest quantity of coffee.

The best coffees come from: Peru, Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia. My father used to get a sack of coffee from Peru and he would roast it at home. I had to do the grinding. Ah, the results were superb.

Later, my ex inlaws got coffee from what used to be their coffee farm in Tanzania. Hmmmm. Great stuff equaly as good as Peruvian stuff.

At the present, I buy Burundi coffee from Trader Joe's

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At the present, I buy Burundi coffee from Trader Joe's

Oh how I miss Trader Joe's :)

I don't go to Starbucks that often. I seldom drink coffe. I'll take an steaming hot Earl Grey over it anyday. I tried Starbucks black tea once:down::nope:. I'll just brew my own tea at my house.

Tea drinker here too. :yep:

More of an apple juice person

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More of an apple juice person

Awwwwww :lol:

I myself cant stand coffee. Especially not the snobby "double latte whipped cream shiz on a stick random french words" that comes in a tiny little cup that couldnt hydrate a newt

I like real coffee. No fancy stuff, just a coffee or espresso and usually black though the odd "café au lait" or "café renversé" in Geneva (don't ask me why) in winter is a nice change.

I do like on occasion the thick, powerful Ottoman Empire coffee (I mean Turkish, or Greek, or Lebanese) but that stuff is to be used with caution.

Never drink coffee after 5 o'clock or so unless I am planning a late night. Lately I have been drinking a lot of tea. Either green loose tea from China (Gunpowder brand) or the standard Earl Grey, Ceylon etc. Partly because the machine at work is kind of crappy though it is free.