Not to mention luxury coffee shops being the most useless thing on planet earth. honestly how many people can tell the difference in a blind taste test between starbucks and freeze dried instant coffee?
[Disclaimer: I’m a coffee snob]
Most people who go to Starbucks would probably not be able to tell if they’re drinking specialty coffee or grocery store coffee, my impression is that they don’t go there to get great coffee, but out of convenience. Chains like Starbucks are the fast food equivalent in the coffee world. I wouldn’t go to a Starbucks myself, if I’m on a long trip I love stopping by a good coffee shop where they serve specialty coffee. “Luxury coffee shops” (local coffee shops) have a place in our society, in my opinion international coffee shop chains do not.
I’m a total coffee addict too I drink a pot a day, I consider starbucks more like a teenage ice cream shop though, their drip coffee is good, but I usually go to dunkin for their xtra large cups, but starbucks does light roast coffee which you can’t find anywhere and it’s like 30 cents more a cup so i’ll go there sometimes for that. If i do blow money on something like a latte I’ll go to starbucks. but i dont think ive been there in maybe 3 years? I used to get the beans back when I ground my own. Now i just stick to folgers and maxwell house, don’t even bother putting sugar in it anymore . Id never get beans or get a latte at mcdonalds, even though I go there just for their $1 any size coffee all the time.
However Starbucks also sells ice cream drinks that the teenagers love because they have caffeine and are more “adult” than a giant milkshake. So starbucks became a trendy place for suburban white teens to hangout, mostly just because it was one of only three stores in the whole town, but also because it was a legal drug for teens, so it became a cool place for teenage white girls to eat ice cream and hangout. Coffeeshops in europe have a whole long storied traditios of intellectuals, poets, and political history etc but not in America it’s just a burger joint that focuses on coffee, maybe there is some genuine cultural crossover there, but its mostly about selling ice cream to suburban teenage white girls
[Disclaimer: I’m a coffee snob]
Most people who go to Starbucks would probably not be able to tell if they’re drinking specialty coffee or grocery store coffee, my impression is that they don’t go there to get great coffee, but out of convenience. Chains like Starbucks are the fast food equivalent in the coffee world. I wouldn’t go to a Starbucks myself, if I’m on a long trip I love stopping by a good coffee shop where they serve specialty coffee. “Luxury coffee shops” (local coffee shops) have a place in our society, in my opinion international coffee shop chains do not.
I’m a total coffee addict too I drink a pot a day, I consider starbucks more like a teenage ice cream shop though, their drip coffee is good, but I usually go to dunkin for their xtra large cups, but starbucks does light roast coffee which you can’t find anywhere and it’s like 30 cents more a cup so i’ll go there sometimes for that. If i do blow money on something like a latte I’ll go to starbucks. but i dont think ive been there in maybe 3 years? I used to get the beans back when I ground my own. Now i just stick to folgers and maxwell house, don’t even bother putting sugar in it anymore . Id never get beans or get a latte at mcdonalds, even though I go there just for their $1 any size coffee all the time.
However Starbucks also sells ice cream drinks that the teenagers love because they have caffeine and are more “adult” than a giant milkshake. So starbucks became a trendy place for suburban white teens to hangout, mostly just because it was one of only three stores in the whole town, but also because it was a legal drug for teens, so it became a cool place for teenage white girls to eat ice cream and hangout. Coffeeshops in europe have a whole long storied traditios of intellectuals, poets, and political history etc but not in America it’s just a burger joint that focuses on coffee, maybe there is some genuine cultural crossover there, but its mostly about selling ice cream to suburban teenage white girls