Finally, fuck Starbucks. Fuck Startbucks with an arsenic laced, spike covered telephone pole. Starbucks sucks. Support your local coffeehouse. Support your local roasters. Support South American farmers.
Amen!! I only frequent local/private-owned coffee shops. There's one here in town where the owner/barista was trained on coffee in Italy, makes everything in-store (i.e. all sauces, syrups, chocolate, caramel, etc.) and gets the coffee beans from a family-owned plantation in South America.
Coffee & Crema, it's called. Damn good. What actual coffee tastes like.
I used to work with a Cuban guy who had relatives send him the real-deal Cuban coffee from the old country.
That stuff was like crack in a cup! After one cup, I was wired like no other coffee in my life. Though I'm not much of a coffee drinker to begin with.
I never understood the appeal of Starbucks, paying 8 or 9 times what any intelligent person would pay for a cup of coffee. I had co-workers a few years ago who ordered from them every day, and I often volunteered to pick up the stuff, so I became familiar with the operation without being an actual customer. I tried the coffee once or twice to see if i was missing anything, I tried some of their sandwiches, but ultimately just found everything overpriced and not worth the money.
