Comments on: Starbucks: Coffee or Crack?

By: helpunderdog

helpunderdog — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:49:00 +0000

*$s has the best coffee out there. I buy their whole beans and grind them at home. They're popularity is well deserved.

By: ariamia

ariamia — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:07:00 +0000

Wow! I don't eat pastries myself, but I sure do love Starbucks coffee and have often wondered what is really in it. Anyone catch Glenn Beck last evening? How about that new drink, Cocaine? Let's all get high the legal way! Hooray, just thinking about it puts me in a whirl. Imagine - triple the caffeine in one delicious, mind-zooming drink! I hope some dimwit doesn't come up with the "There oughta be a law" thingee. I like it that a concerned citizen is starting an education campaign and then we can "vote in the marketplace."
ariamia

By: SteveOk

SteveOk — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:16:00 +0000

I would like to thank you all for eating those expensive SBUX pastries and coffees because I own stock in SBUX. Next time I watch a Deneuve movie I will have a muffin and buy some more stock.

By: Dymphna

Dymphna — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:00 +0000

Ah, Starbucks. I love the baristas' ingo; it's a throwback to the old diners, where waitresses would yell "two eyeballs over on a shingle, kill the hog" -- i.e., two eggs over easy with toast and bacon.

Now the mixes people demand are so individual, it's hard to keep up. "Skinny vente, half-caf" is probably the most common...

I make scones (better than Starbucks does), though I don't eat them anymore. But I can't touch their coffee. It really is the best.

And you reminded me of "The Last Metro" ... wonderful. Absolutely. Another one to add to my "To Buy" list, if I can find it on DVD.

By: cabgx2

cabgx2 — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:25:00 +0000

I would hate to spill my coffee while naked. What little I have, I don't want burned.

I'm a Southener. I get my coffee and pastries at my local convenience store.

By: artgal

artgal — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:20:00 +0000

So this is what it comes to. Guess we shouldn't be too surprised with Bill Clinton's behavior at Starbucks after his complete breakdown with Chris Wallace this past weekend.

I suppose a Starbucks pastry is worth that sort of trouble, too, when you have no time to collect your wallet & clothing from the mistress's place, and Hillary is looking for you.

By: AskMom

AskMom — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:15:00 +0000

I wore the (favorite color here) apron for a few years and have witnessed much strange and compulsive behavior. Customers can become completely unhinged when their favorite pastry, syrup, coffee blend or barista is not available. One woman had to be removed by police when the customer directly in front of her got the last Pumpkin Scone. She screamed about her important meetings and her psychological addiction to the scones and threatened everyone in the store with death. Death AND lawsuits. Talk about high maintenance.

And there are always venti-tummied middle aged men jonesing for the college barista cuties. One miracle cure is the sweet request for a phone number, promptly dialed by an angry-looking manager. The few wannabee stud muffins who don't leave pronto, stay only long enough to beg or snatch back the paper with the phone number.

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:12:00 +0000

Careful not to spill any coffee on that crisp white linen shirt.

Then again...