List of Starbucks closures

[bobbob1313]

I don't think you really feel that way.

 

Don't you have some workers to be exploiting?

[JUDE]

Don't you have some workers to be exploiting?

 

I have underlings for that. Always keep your distance from the really dirty stuff, deniability and all that.

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

So if you can get good beans, you can taste the diff. Most buyers in metro areas sample every shipment of beans before pimping them. I would guess Charbucks gets the leftovers. It is a good biz model for earning $. They burn them on purpose.

 

 

Hey, I don't care either. It saddens me that people get duped into thinking that is 'good' coffee. It is a fact that they are leftover beans that are roasted beyond what coffee should be roasted to gain the flavor of the bean. They are tasting char (bucks).

 

Is there harm in understanding different types of coffee (or any food product)? Harm in understaning how a business has become profitable?

Which is it? Or am I misunderstanding a distinction?

[aricandover]

Charbuck's

 

dog piss

[sweetheart-mine]

we got so burned out on green mountain coffees in the northeast that i'll drink anything else. anything, including whichever fifty-year-old instant in a jar my mother drags out when i visit.

[fatheadfred]

Well, let me waste some more time on the internets and find some damn proof. Forgive my gaffe at being parsed.

 

While I am at it I'll find some taste test results, from experts.

[mfwahl]

While I am at it I'll find some taste test results, from experts.

[Sir Stewart]

Up in here, up in here.

[bobbob1313]

While I am at it I'll find some taste test results, from experts.

 

It won't make a difference.

 

You are talking about taste. It is always going to be subjective. Stop.

[mfwahl]

It won't make a difference.

 

You are talking about taste. It is always going to be subjective. Stop.

I'm hoping he was joking about the expert taste test thing.

[Sir Stewart]

Experts, bobbob. EX-PERTS.

[myboyblue]

YOU HAVE BEEN DUPEDDDD!!!

[embiggen]

I'm a taste expert.

[fatheadfred]

Reviews http://coffeereview.com/allreviews.cfm?search=1 huh, charbucks ain't in that list 50 or so. Sumbitch

 

I did see this one though with an 84:

Starbucks Coffee Sumatra

Origin: Northern Sumatra, Indonesia Review Date: January 2007

Attractive aroma: sweet, gently scorched cedar with a distinct hint of semi-sweet chocolate. Very roasty in the cup, but with patience the sweet burned notes round toward a vague, caramelly chocolate. Simple and sweet in the short finish, mildly astringent in the long.

Overall Rating: 84 points

 

Here are snippets of an article that appear to be mirrored on this thread: http://www.coffeereview.com/article.cfm?ID=17

 

the tension between (and among the members of) the two camps is real. Darker roasting, with its lower acidity and bittersweet tang, has attracted a sizable chunk of the American coffee-drinking public, probably people who either never drank coffee before or who stopped drinking it because they came to associate it with the (genuinely) under-roasted, sour-tasting, thin-bodied, stale stuff served in gas stations and fast-food chains.

 

The main accusation of the lighter-roasters level at the darker-roasting camp is that dark roasting removes everything that makes individual coffees distinctive. By roasting the coffee so dark, the lighter roasters claim, its nuances, its subtleties and distinctions, are burned off and sent up the chimney. Sumatras taste like Costa Ricas, high-priced, rare coffees like cheap coffees. The coffee itself barely matters, since all we're really tasting is the impact of the dark roast.

[the carlos]

Up in here, up in here.

i heart you.

[jenbobblehead]

They have good Cheesecake and peanut butter cup cookies in the Barnes & Noble ones.

oh my cod.

i have to have one of those.

[fatheadfred]

and this for the source even though I don't have tracking #s from customs and shit:

 

They seemed to have been brought along a bit too quickly in the roaster, accentuating burned, carbon tones, and judging from the look and taste of the beans, may have been based on low-grade Sumatra coffees rather the finer (and higher-priced) Sumatras.

 

from the same article.

 

So yes, you pay equal or more for a cup of coffee at Charbucks as you would from a local roaster, though the local roaster has fresher, higher quality product. So you are paying more for Charbucks rent in the equation than the bean. Dupers.

 

and don't say it is subjective...do you ever review other things before you buy them? what's the diff.?

 

and, another reference to fox news...have you read the book? did you try the coffee?

[Sir Stewart]

oh my cod.

i have to have one of those.

You might want to contact an expert first.

[jenbobblehead]

You might want to contact an expert first.

Bobbob got paid to work at an ice cream joint, so i consider him an expert on treats.

[bobbob1313]

oh my cod.

i have to have one of those.

 

I fear my wording may have been confusing, though.

 

I meant they have cheesecakes AND peanut butter cup cookies, both of which are good. Sorry for the confusion.

 

and this for the source even though I don't have tracking #s from customs and shit:

 

They seemed to have been brought along a bit too quickly in the roaster, accentuating burned, carbon tones, and judging from the look and taste of the beans, may have been based on low-grade Sumatra coffees rather the finer (and higher-priced) Sumatras.

 

from the same article.

 

So yes, you pay equal or more for a cup of coffee at Charbucks as you would from a local roaster, though the local roaster has fresher, higher quality product. So you are paying more for Charbucks rent in the equation than the bean. Dupers.

 

CONVENIENCE.

 

and don't say it is subjective...do you ever review other things before you buy them? what's the diff.?

 

and, another reference to fox news...have you read the book? did you try the coffee?

 

You can consult someone else's opinion when making a purchase. You are holding their opinion up as fact.

 

And what is the 2nd bit even referring to?

[mfwahl]

I meant they have cheesecakes AND peanut butter cup cookies, both of which are good. Sorry for the confusion.

Damn You!!!

[bobbob1313]

Though, if you are looking for a similar treat, you can always hit up your local Dairy Queen for my favorite:

 

Cheesequake Blizzard with reeses cups. Oh man, heavenly...

[fatheadfred]

I fear my wording may have been confusing, though.

 

I meant they have cheesecakes AND peanut butter cup cookies, both of which are good. Sorry for the confusion.

 

 

 

CONVENIENCE.

 

 

 

You can consult someone else's opinion when making a purchase. You are holding their opinion up as fact.

 

And what is the 2nd bit even referring to?

 

Dude, I agreed w/ the covenience. Dude. I have bad days too, but lay off the caps lock or maybe you've had too many crappacino sourced from cheaped, burnt beans.

 

It is a fact. Starbucks coffee is second rate.

 

Do you speak it? english? what? say what again? GOOD COFFEE, do you ever drink it?

[myboyblue]

[watch me fall]

I drink McDonald's coffee. Now there's some good stuff.