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I dunno. I think there is something far more y about getting a cappuccino at McDonald's than at Starbucks.
Best McDonalds commercial ever.
Actually, just about the only McD's commercial I've ever liked since MJ and Larry.
I dunno. I think there is something far more y about getting a cappuccino at McDonald's than at Starbucks.
it's like going to a 5 star restaurant by stealing the leftover food out back.
People go to Starbuck's for good coffee?
I'm sure some people do.
I go to Starbucks for their coffee milkshakes, though.
Their coffee always tastes burnt/bitter to me. The only reason I go there is pure laziness on my part.
Nothing beats Lavazza and a simple Moka. I want a Saeco, but don't want to dole out the cash for one. Damn you, Santa.
your getting the burnt/bitter flavor mixed up with peepee
Meh... I'm picky enough about coffee to know that Starbucks isn't the best available, but not so picky to be able to taste the burnt/bitter flavor (a pretty common complaint about their coffee).
For my morning cup of coffee, I make my own. If I go to Starbucks, or any other coffee house, it's because either a) I'm going with other people, or b) I specifically want a mocha or a frappuccino or one of the other girly drinks that I'm too lazy to make at home.
Yeah, it does have a wang to it.
It's been a rather recent (within the last year) change in their coffee taste. I don't know if they've changed product or changed protocol, but there has definitely been downward trend in taste at the Starbucks I go to.
The bigger problem I've had recently, and at several different locations, is with barristas scalding the milk. That's a supremely unpleasant taste.
I wouldn't know. I usually have a double espresso or regular, black coffee.
Maybe I should stick to the girly drinks.
aren't their machines timed? i remember hating making coffee drinks working behind the bar at the alamo drafthouse.
If they are, there must be ways around it.
it's pretty bad to send out a drink with scalded milk, especially since the smell of it is so easy to detect. not to mention the foam in scalded milk disappears quite quickly and is very noticeable. (to me at least)
I've noticed that it seems to coincide with the recent trendiness of ordering drinks hotter. I have a few friends that work in coffee houses and spend enough time hanging out in them to overhear lots of drink orders, and there are tons of people specifically ordering their lattes at 140 or 150 degrees to keep them from getting cool too fast.
starbucks komodo dragon is delicious. you pansies who can't handle their coffee call it burnt
btw, the steamers in starbucks aren't timed, they are temperature based.
ahh ok, i was going off what a former starbucks employee ~5 years ago had told me.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty.
This book is very, very good:
http://www.amazon.com/Intellectuals-.../dp/0060916575
Excellent reading, highly recommended.
Writing about the foibles of great thinkers rather than their ideas is weak sauce.
Let me guess. You voted for that dumb Palin.
I'm not even American. And I fail to see the merits of your guess. This isn't about politics. Is it because Johnson is a conservative and I quoted Buckley?
Okay, go with George Steiner. He's an intellectual, and a left leaning one, who's very well aware of the dangers of intellectualism. Read some of his interview books, for example.
ETA: Oh, read Camille Paglia. She's a leftist, a lesbian and a scholar. And she makes a very good analysis about American contemporary Academy, intellectual circles and the vices of overly educated people. Paglia is a very interesting analyst.
See the last 8 years for the dangers of anti-intellectualism.
Hey, F you, too.
And last week I had my first-ever Sausage McGriddle. Hokey smokes, those things are scrumptious!
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