What is the fascination with fancy Coffee places anhd "energy drinks"
Tiredtraveler
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Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:43 PM
I don't understand the fascination with coffee bars. I drink coffee but refuse to $$ spend to get a Vetted or Venti or grounded or grande burnt coffee for $5 or $10 a cup.
WTF I can make an entire pot of good quality coffee for pennies, pour it into my big ass mug with its huge handle that fits my ham hands and not have to stand in line to pay some rude emo douche-bag to write my name on a eco-friendly cup that burns my fingers for a really shitty cup of coffee.
I guess it is the same can be asked of tooth rotting Mountain Dew for breakfast, snack, lunch and dinner of a few years ago. Now its grande, mocha, frappe, nonfat, crappy chino! or one of those caffeine or ephedrine laced sugar laden "energy drinks" that advertisements make fat slugs think that if they drink it they are able to leap buildings at a single bound whereas in reality it just gives them heart palpitations/attacks and makes them fatter.
I think if I was a strip club owner I would put in a 'starbutts' coffee bar and staff it with bottomless baristas. Serve Irish Coffee with a side of Fish Flavored Taco. LOL
WTF I can make an entire pot of good quality coffee for pennies, pour it into my big ass mug with its huge handle that fits my ham hands and not have to stand in line to pay some rude emo douche-bag to write my name on a eco-friendly cup that burns my fingers for a really shitty cup of coffee.
I guess it is the same can be asked of tooth rotting Mountain Dew for breakfast, snack, lunch and dinner of a few years ago. Now its grande, mocha, frappe, nonfat, crappy chino! or one of those caffeine or ephedrine laced sugar laden "energy drinks" that advertisements make fat slugs think that if they drink it they are able to leap buildings at a single bound whereas in reality it just gives them heart palpitations/attacks and makes them fatter.
I think if I was a strip club owner I would put in a 'starbutts' coffee bar and staff it with bottomless baristas. Serve Irish Coffee with a side of Fish Flavored Taco. LOL
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I'm not a big coffee drinker and don't necessarily like the taste of coffee - I like the different flavors Starbucks makes, I can get my caffeine with something that tastes good (to me) - I do agree it's too-expensive but IMO on gets a consistent product (coffee, staff, facilities).
Have never tried energy drinks - w/ my high bp I'm concerned about them, and what's in them.
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But yes, prices are high, and for myself, it either has hotties or I stay away. Never patronized Starbucks.
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The fact that you're talking about "burnt coffee" makes me think you're talking about Starbucks, which is NOT "fancy", it's the TGIFriday's of coffee chains -- poor to mediocre quality coffee, that's targeted at people who don't know it, and think they're being fancy. If you hang out with people who are as crazy and knowledgeable about coffee as tusclers are about strip clubs, you'll have complete consensus that Starbucks is the no-alcohol low-mileage high-$ fat-strippers strip club of coffee shops.
There are plenty of actual craft coffee places with skilled baristas who make amazing coffee -- especially if what you're after is next-level amazing coffee, particularly espressos, pour-overs, etc (or, in other words, the Follies of coffee places). Worth every dime if you love amazing coffee. If you're basically drinking a steamed milk, caramel, whipped cream, ultra-sweetened liquid donut, I guess Starbucks is fine, you fat fuck, enjoy your diabeetus.
Not that I have an opinion on this, or anything
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Never would pay money for coffee shops without you such. Never patronized Starbucks or TGIFriday's, or anything else like that.
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WTF - Juice and I drink it every day walking home after work bagging groceries at Piggly Wiggly.
They still make Four Loko, they just took out the elements that made it an "energy drink." While a great idea, the energy drink element was a stimulant and the alcohol element was a depressant which made a great high, but had disastrous results. You were lucky if you just blacked out, a few college students actually died.
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Brilliant!
I like to support local businesses. The place I mostly go to gets their pastries from a literal mom and pop operation. Good food and I'm helping to keep locals in business. And there was a barista with a really nice rack for a while. A brilliant rack! ;)
Starbucks is fine for airports. You know what you're getting. It won't be great but in my experience it won't be horrible (my sole exception that edged into undrinkable: a Starbucks in PEK - I definitely should have ordered tea and not coffee).
Pete's isn't bad. But all chains regress to the mean. Typically OK, but never great. Local can be great or it can be horrible or anything in between! :)
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"If you're basically drinking a steamed milk, caramel, whipped cream, ultra-sweetened liquid donut, I guess Starbucks is fine, you fat fuck, enjoy your diabeetus.
Not that I have an opinion on this, or anything"
LMAO!
Starbucks: because you don't care what your coffee tastes like, but you want to pay a lot for it
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I make my own coffee these days, grinding whole beans by hand and using a french press. As good as any high-end coffee shop. Starbucks whole bean roasts are actually pretty good.
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most excellent idea.
as it is... some stripclubs do have coffee and tea from a 'per cup' machine and some clubs have starbucks frapechino bottles.
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I would never waste my time or money in any kind of a coffee shop which lacked this additional appeal.
Friends don't let friends patronize Starbucks.
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Book has been highly acclaimed and it gets into the issues of hang out places, like for example sexism.
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That said, I definitely appreciate an amazing espresso or pourover, especially made by well-trained baristas and with beans freshly roasted within the past week. This is a great time for coffee aficionados.