As a "coffee snob" myself, I cannot STAND Starbucks coffee, it tastes burned to me. I cold brew my own (less acid, brings out the natural sweetness) and now detest any inferior coffee when I'm out in public.
Plus there is the ever-present wokeness at Starbucks that I started noticing a few years ago, before I started my cold brew process. Back then Starbucks had cultivated a sort of hip reputation, but all I really wanted back then was a simple cup of coffee, black, and a quiet place to read or use my laptop on their WiFi. Instead it was latte this, frappachino that, grande, etc, and I refused to learn their language.
Their own language was the whole reason I avoided this place to begin with! I remember YEARS ago, like when we were first hearing of Starbucks, being sent by a group of friends with this "grande" "Latte" and whatever-ey words I was supposed to use. I stumbled a lot, the cashier lady was nice and helped me out. I still sweat going to Starbucks if I have to, and will say "the largest size" or "medium" and they usually look a little annoyed I am not speaking their language. It's embarrassingly ridiculous that their "hip" words and foo foo coffee has infiltrated our society. By the way, if I HAVE to go, for whatever reason, I will get a tea for like $2.50. it's not bad and not a liquid candy bar.
As a "coffee snob" myself, I cannot STAND Starbucks coffee, it tastes burned to me. I cold brew my own (less acid, brings out the natural sweetness) and now detest any inferior coffee when I'm out in public.
Plus there is the ever-present wokeness at Starbucks that I started noticing a few years ago, before I started my cold brew process. Back then Starbucks had cultivated a sort of hip reputation, but all I really wanted back then was a simple cup of coffee, black, and a quiet place to read or use my laptop on their WiFi. Instead it was latte this, frappachino that, grande, etc, and I refused to learn their language.
Good riddance.
Their own language was the whole reason I avoided this place to begin with! I remember YEARS ago, like when we were first hearing of Starbucks, being sent by a group of friends with this "grande" "Latte" and whatever-ey words I was supposed to use. I stumbled a lot, the cashier lady was nice and helped me out. I still sweat going to Starbucks if I have to, and will say "the largest size" or "medium" and they usually look a little annoyed I am not speaking their language. It's embarrassingly ridiculous that their "hip" words and foo foo coffee has infiltrated our society. By the way, if I HAVE to go, for whatever reason, I will get a tea for like $2.50. it's not bad and not a liquid candy bar.
I'm not sure what it was, but I've never liked them - somehow always knew they were a liberal leftist marxist operation. And their coffee sucks.
Could it be the burnt beans ?
A few hundred years ago hauling coffee beans in the hole of a wooden ship meant a well burn't bean was safer to drink. Now they're just ruined.
Yeah, you could say they taste like they came out of a house fire