I drink Folger’s mostly. If I’m out, I’ll go to Dunkin’ Donuts. I also have a Gevalia subscription.
I never did understand the appeal of Starbuck’s other than the “Look at me, I pay $5 for a cup of coffee” factor.
Bill Ayers drinks Starbucks. That’s all you need to know. His taste in coffee is as bad as his taste in women and presidents.
Ooooh, I've been tempted - I love their coffee.
Folgers is much too acidic for me, and 8 O'Clock leaves a funny after-taste.
We drink Melita - hooked on it would be a more accurate term.
Plain coffee isn’t $5. The lattes and frappocinos cost more. I get a large toffee nut latte for $3.50. I haven’t found a latte that I like at other coffee shops. I also can make it at home, but it’s not as good as starbucks (even though I use their syrup).
I laughed a year or so ago when I saw a new drive-thru Starbucks being built over in Indio (90 percent Hispanic, and decidedly low-income brown collar demographic), being sure it'd shutter up within a few months.
The place is going gangbusters, and always has a line second only to the legendary In-N-Out Burger chain.
It’s trendy to smugly rag on Starbucks, but the notion of a $5 cup of “coffee” is a canard. You can get a large cup of brewed coffee there for something like $1.87. Not all that bad, and the bathrooms are always clean, and they have WiFi. Great place for business travelers to make a pit-stop.