[mountn man]

I was working in downtown Chicago 2 years ago, just off of Rush street (VERY trendy and VERY expensive)

The guy I worked with an I, would get to the job and walk a few blocks over for coffee and a roll every morning. He just HAD TO HAVE his Starbucks coffee. He'd rave about it, and tell me about the oils and such, and the best way to make it...yada, yada, yada.

I'd walk ANOTHER block down and get a Dunkin' Donuts coffee and doughnut.

I CAN'T STAND Starbucks swill. It tastes like burnt, over roasted crap to me. What I hate EVEN MORE, are the pretentious people who work there and buy there, and think that Starbucks is just sooooo great. LOOOONG before I had a Starbucks coffee, I surmized it was nothing but a shallow, trendy place, for shallow, pretentious people. After going the first time, I figured I was spot on. I tried it a couple more times just in case I had a bad cup the first time. I did.
...And the second...and the third...and the fourth.

The only time I've had a good cup of coffee in a Starbucks, is when I brought in a Dunkin' Donuts coffee.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

They were giving away samples of Starbucks (or, as another Freeper calls it, 'Charbucks') Via instant coffee at my Costco over the weekend.

I don't care what you do to it, instant coffee ALWAYS smells like instant coffee - and this stuff was no exception to the rule. I spotted the smell as she was pouring it, and it had that same Nescafe taste.

But, hey! It's Starbucks, man. Do ya hear me? Starbucks!

Whatever...

[VRWCmember]

Too each his own. I like my coffee pretty strong (it doesn’t take as much water to make coffee as most folks seem to think it does) and every time I’ve tried Dunkin Donuts coffee it has been not quite as good as a cup of Sanka instant coffee.

If I had a choice of paying for a cup of Starbucks or getting a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee for free, I would probably flip a coin to decide which way to go.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Dunkin’ Donuts seems to be on the wane but yeah, they do have some great coffee. These days my favorite place for a good, fast, “plain old coffee” is McDonalds. Most who haven’t tried it would be pleasantly surprised, I bet.