Neil Young Boycotts Starbucks Over GMO Lawsuit

Rolling Stone ^ | November 15, 2014 | Miriam Coleman

[Bryanw92]

Where’s the Huge Manatee when you need it?

Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.

[left that other site]

You hit the nail on the head, my FRiend.

[Eddie01]

Just go away.
You’re making it hard to listen to your music anymore.

[ConservativeStatement]

I made a rare trip into Starbucks about a month ago. I asked for a dark roast. The person at the cashier said “Would you like to try our (unknown to me). It is much better.” I wasn’t sure how to interpret that. The dark roast is lousy or they are trying to push the other variety.

[Enten]

By gosh, that’ll teach em!!! I’m sure they will change the policy immediately.

[SamAdams76]

I listen to Bob Dylan and go to Dunkin Donuts. Does the Neil Young vs. Starbucks tiff affect me in any way?

Hopefully somebody can send me instructions on what to do.

[blackdog]

Neil Young's Greatest Hits, (sung by his cat) is the best of his work ever.

Neil Young...........Don't need to keep him around anyhow.

[TigersEye]

I can’t boycott a company that has never offered a product that I would buy even at half the price.

[left that other site]

Just pushing the tres chic la di da hoity toity flavor of the month is my guess.

[driftdiver]

They are over roasting unripe beans. Cheap beans, the dregs of what other buyers don’t want because its cheap.

Then they make unsophisticated coffee drinkers think that is what good coffee tastes like with lots of marketing.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Coffee made at home is cheaper and better tasting than at some fru-fru coffee place.

He doesn't have a home anymore. He's living on what's left of his boat with you-know-who.

Pretty cool for a 25 year old. 69? Not so much.

[ComputerGuy]

Good one.

[NonValueAdded]

I believe she asked if you would like to try a blonde. You should have run with it :)

[mylife]

Amen!

[rdl6989]

I’m not a coffee drinker, so don’t miss Starbucks swill and liberal nonsense.

[Mears]

Their iced coffee is great.

I drink it black and unsweetened and it is much better that DD’s-——but I like DD’s hot coffee better.

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[driftdiver]

Their iced coffee is good but then it has half a days calories in it so it should be good.

[Mears]

No calories in mine.

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[ConservativeMind]

Without a doubt, Starbucks is over-roasting beans, which lets them use poor quality beans. “Dark roast” and, even worse, “French roast” is specifically meant to do that.

Look up the history on “French roast” coffee. The French found you could make crappy beans taste palatable if you over cooked them, which burns off most of the bad flavors, but it also gets rid of the good flavors, too.

You don't have many good flavors in poor quality beans.

It's been ingenious how Starbucks made it “cool” to drink the poorest quality coffees the world has to offer.

I have a relative with a sizable coffee plantation, in case these words are in doubt.

[Huskrrrr]

Come over to Peet’s Ol Neal.