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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 19h ago
Most people who go to Starbucks don’t like coffee they like sugar.
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u/Xathule96 19h ago
I've had Starbucks once, it was a bad coffee, but an ok milkshake.
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u/kalashnidog 19h ago
I drink coffee black 95% of the time and Starbucks is really bad for that.
Genuinely Chick-Fil-A or Whataburger coffee is better black than fucking Starbucks lmao.
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u/_Ban_Evader 18h ago
It's burned. It's just objectively fuckin burned. And they know it's burned, because they have a corporate manual telling them how to burn it.
I'm not a coffee snob. I'll pour yesterday's coffee out of the pot and put it in the microwave. If you want some burned coffee, I 100% support your right to drink it. But it's burned.
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u/kalashnidog 18h ago
But like… why…? Does burning it ensure a consistent taste across all locations or something?
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u/hactid 18h ago
yes on consistency, also they're gonna dilutte the crap out of it with milk, cream and sugar so you still have a semblance of a coffee flavor in there.
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u/MyDixieWreck92 17h ago
I also have to assume that going over (burning) is easier to standardise than roasting it perfectly every time.
Support your local roaster!!
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u/kalashnidog 17h ago
Intersting strategy I gotta say 😂
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u/HolidaySpiriter 17h ago
It works for them. If you want milk with some coffee flavoring, Starbucks is the best place to go. If you want decent coffee, go anywhere else that's local.
I'd love to meet anyone who regularly drinks Starbucks coffee black, because I had the same experience, it's terrible. Genuinely the worst coffee I've ever had.
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u/kalashnidog 17h ago
Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I seek out Starbucks. But it’s the biggest coffee chain ever so inevitably I’m going to be offered it. Meetings, conferences, parties, etc. My work also replaced the actual okayish coffee shop we had with Starbucks so there isn’t really a better option in the dead-ass industrial park we’re in.
I’ll drink it when I need a caffeine bump but I reserve the right to complain about how mid it is lol.
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u/Dreamo84 10h ago
Not even local, 7 Eleven has pretty good coffee for a fraction of the price. Even McDonald's and Burger King are pretty good.
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u/tiredbarf 16h ago
It's waaaaay easier to get a consistent product with different beans and different roasters if you roast super dark. They care more about consistency than quality.
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u/an0nym0ose 14h ago
I love burnt black coffee. I dunno what it is, that shitty gross burnt flavor makes me warm and fuzzy. I will schlurp that shit down and ask for seconds lmao people look at my like I'm crazy when I get black coffee at Starbucks and I do that shit on purpose because they ALWAYS BURN IT just like I like
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u/_Ban_Evader 5h ago
Haha yes this. I'm not a Starbuck's guy but this is how I feel about auto mechanic waiting room coffee.
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u/Unknown-Meatbag 18h ago
Starbucks black coffee tastes like straight sewage.
I'm a coffee snob, through and through. I've grown my own, go to coffee places every where I go, and I've only had Starbucks black coffee once, when it was free after voting. It was hands down the worst coffee I have ever drank. And I can get down with some waaaay too many scoops drip pot coffee but that was absolutely undrinkable.
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u/Witty_Bug6200 17h ago
You ever had hotel lobby coffee? Ohio rest stop coffee? Auto repair shop coffee? Starbucks sucks, but come on.
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u/sluttycheesepizza 17h ago
They said they’re a coffee snob, so their basis for comparison may be a bit skewed.
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u/enthusiasticGeek 17h ago
its unfortunate cause, at least in my opinion, the beans themselves are actually pretty decent. not great by any means, but not terrible - itll please your average consumer more than folgers. i used to work at a starbucks, and after i saw how they wanted us to do it, i said fuck that and decided to make it to order. we did pour over since it was quicker and yielded a better product than the large brewer. unsurprisingly, we didn't sell enough black coffee to make that much of a problem, and the customer was always happy with their much better cup of joe after the wait
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u/604Ataraxia 19h ago
I think they literally choose it to optimize to their milk and sugar abominations. They can't conceivably think it is a good coffee black.
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u/kalashnidog 19h ago
What’s crazy is I actually had an argument with a group of 8 or 9 coworkers about whether or not Starbucks was good.
They all agreed it tasted good, even black. Either they’re insane or I’ve never been gaslit so hard in my entire life. 😭
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u/Solonotix 18h ago
Taste is subjective. Maybe you simply don't like Starbucks, and no amount of reasoning or open-mindedness will change that.
Branching out from there, as someone who worked at Starbucks years ago, what people think of when they say "black coffee at Starbucks" is not going to be the best drip coffee experience ever. It'll usually be better than your average trip to a diner or fast food location, but not by much.
Starting back around 2005, Starbucks introduced a new policy of having one lighter coffee and one dark roast, as well as a decaf. The lighter coffee was required to be their newest addition to the lineup: Pike's Place. They put all kinds of flowery language around that product, but the summary of it is that it was engineered to be unoffensive; boring if you will. The dark roast was usually something at the opposite end of the spectrum, like their French Roast or Café Verona. The French Roast was often roasted so dark that I would liken it to being burnt. Grinding those beans always smelled like fish to me. Not in a rancid way, but just a pungent aroma of organic compounds.
Prior to that time, it was standard practice that the stores would rotate through their choice of coffees available from the entire lineup. Today you go in and it's Colombian for the light, and Ethiopia Sidamo for the dark. Tomorrow it's some new seasonal blend for the light and Sumatra for the dark. Hell, I just went to Google to see if I could dredge up some names of their coffee blends and 95% of the products were either a super dark roast or one of their unoffensive light roasts.
One of the Black Apron coffees on offer when I worked there, and one of the first coffees I ever liked to drink black, was Ethiopia Sun-dried Sidamo. The Ethiopia Sidamo blend was normally classified as a dark roast, but the Ethiopia Sun-dried Sidamo leaned closer to a light roast. It had tons of bright acidity to it, and it actually had character that wasn't just "earthy".
In general, I'm not a black coffee drinker, so my palette isn't the same as yours. I usually like a medium roast with some cream and some sugar (approx. 1tsp sugar and ⅓oz cream in a cup) to bring out the caramel notes while toning down the acidity. But I've also known some black coffee drinkers that don't actually want flavor, and the presence of anything other than "mud" is offensive to them. Not saying you're in that camp; just remarking that the Barnum effect is all too powerful in discussions of taste, especially when the participants in discussion aren't fluent in how to be specific with their particular stance. Saying "This is bad!" is easy to say, but hard to qualify. Bad in what way? Because in all likelihood the sentiment of Starbucks coffee being bad is probably much more diverse in the specifics than the dog-pile of upvotes might lead one to believe
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u/kalashnidog 18h ago
I have to strongly push back that I “don’t like flavor”. Flavor is extremely important especially considering I don’t typically add anything to it. It’s a myth that black coffee drinkers just like “mud”. Just because I don’t add 40 lbs of sugar and cream into my coffee doesn’t mean I like coffee to taste bad. To me black coffee tastes amazing when made right.
I am somewhat sloppy at making coffee myself but I can always tell when I brew it too weak or strong or when I try a new brand that doesn’t land.
Starbucks coffee, regardless of roast, has a weirdly metallic taste that frankly tastes like almost no other coffee I’ve had. Well, actually now that I think about it I have the same complaint about Dutch Brothers.
I don’t know the exact science behind why I think it sucks, but I don’t need to. It just doesn’t taste good to me versus almost any other non-fast-food coffee.
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u/hfxRos 7h ago
Taste is subjective. Maybe you simply don't like Starbucks, and no amount of reasoning or open-mindedness will change that.
Yeah like I find Tim Hortons coffee to be just on the line between drinkable and undrinkable coffee. I can get it down if it's all I've got but I'm not going to happy about it.
And yet Tim Hortons defines coffee in Canada. It's by far the most popular coffee in the country, and many Canadians have never had a coffee that didn't come in a Tim's cup.
I think it's awful. But if millions of people love it, then it's clearly just a matter of taste.
I don't care for Starbucks either, but I'll take it over Tim Hortons in a heartbeat, and if I want "middle end" coffee I'll usually seek out a Second Cup before a Starbucks.
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u/McBrodoSwagins https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ 15h ago
I work at Starbucks and im the only person who works there who drinks black and it tastes like shit. The cold brew/nitro and some of the whole bean roasts are decent but hey, it's free so I won't complain too much haha
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u/SuperPotatoThrow 18h ago
Their "black coffee" is just filler material. Ive asked for regular drip coffee once when my coffee maker took a shit one morning and it was absolutely revolting. It tasted like it had burned and then sat out for 3 days.
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u/MyDixieWreck92 17h ago
Unpopular opinion but McCafe has pretty solid black coffee. At least where I live.
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u/Helithe 17h ago
McCafe has good coffee because it started out in Australia and we don't drink shit coffee.
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u/MyDixieWreck92 17h ago
Thank you for your contribution to civilisation. I'm saying this from across the ditch where we too don't drink shit coffee. You'll be glad to know that McCafe is also really solid in South East Asia.
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u/SpprtRdclHbts 18h ago
Chic fil a cold brew with just the milk without the syrup is fkn BOMB. Expensive tho. Definitely not a regular thing for me lol
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u/kalashnidog 18h ago
Not huge into cold brew but it does hit the spot in summer. Might try theirs soon since it’ll be summer until November here lol.
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u/SuperPotatoThrow 18h ago
If you grind the beans kinda more on the coarse side vs fine, leave if in a French press after pressing it then let it cool off on its own and stick it in the fridge, its pretty damn good. Doesn't even taste flat, even if you drink it black. Little bit of a process, but worth it in the summer months lol.
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u/FacePalmDent 18h ago
I don't know if it is all IHop of just the one we have but that is the best damn coffee for not being home brew
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u/kalashnidog 18h ago
I worked at IHOP for 3 weeks and probably drank more money’s worth of their coffee than they actually paid me. 😂
It was pretty solid, I won’t lie.
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u/LeviAEthan512 10h ago
EXACTLY. Starbucks is a dessert shop. Idk why people keep asking them for coffee.
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u/DarkPolumbo 8h ago
First time I went there I asked for a "regular black coffee"
You'd have thought I was speaking Martian, the way they looked at me. After an awkward pause, they figured it out and handed me one, smugly correcting my diction: "Here's your tall drip."
That was the only time I've had Starbucks. I've been inside them plenty, because I used to drop in to bullshit with my barista roommate, and hit on his coworkers in front of him
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u/Infamous-Grab2341 19h ago
You can buy sugar in stores
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u/kukkoinen 19h ago
Yes but no-one likes to put 5 spoonfulls of sugar in to their coffee themselves, if someone else does it for you and you don't see it it doesen't count.
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u/Silviana193 19h ago
Even then, it's still probabily cheaper to buy something like instant flavor powder, right?
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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 19h ago
If you're just looking for a caffeine fix, some trucker pills or just a bag of caffeine powder would be most economical. No need to stoop down to coffee crystals.
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u/The_Mosephus 19h ago
caffeine pills exist, no need to buy straight powder unless you're looking to live out a tony montana fantasy.
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u/Dumeck 15h ago
Liquid flavoring is the move, most coffee shops I see use Torani. A flavored creamer and a cold brewer is all you need to go get better coffee than Starbucks though. A cheap pour over brewer, like $12 and a kettle and tou can make hot coffee that is at least as good as Starbucks, you could even buy Starbucks coffee and make the same thing.
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u/BlendedBaconSyrup bruh 19h ago
Pretty much. It's 50/50 sugar addicts and people who make enough money they don't care about throwing away hundreds every month for the convenience
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u/CreepyClay 19h ago
About once a week I go to a local place mainly because the best I can brew is classifiable as motor oil and they make a very good chocolate Guinness cake.
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u/KrustyKrabFormula_ 15h ago
nah its definitely caffeine and sugar. both of which you can get from making your own coffee...
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u/dandroid126 14h ago
If I want coffee, I make it at home. If I want an elaborate coffee-inspired dessert, I go to Starbucks.
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u/umabbas 13h ago
I drink coffee without sugar 90% of the time, mostly just coffee & milk
but there are days, mostly after driving through the gauntlet that driving in here is, where i just order Spanish Latte, which is basically a coffee flavoured liquid sugar.
No Starbucks though, we've been boycotting them for years now.
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u/hardlopertjie 17h ago
100% if you had to get coffee with no sugar and syruppy shit added then StarBucks absolutely sucks. They are great for sugar. Not for real coffee.
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u/Normal_Boobies 19h ago
$7 for a coffee you can make at home for $0.20 is wild
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u/18Apollo18 17h ago
I don't have caramel mocha pumpkin spice hazelnut syrup at home
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u/42stingray Shower Enthusiast 18h ago
Yes, but if I buy a $7 coffee then it's because I can't make it at home for one reason or another
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u/Diabetesh 17h ago
There are two starbucks people, that one and those who want convenience, which happens to be the starbucks on the way to work or wherever. Like the starbucks near me is right before the highway to get on it. Every other coffee option is less convenient to get to and then get on the highway even if it is by 1 min.
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u/Dr_Mephesto 15h ago
I can’t stand those sugary “coffees” so I always get an actual coffee from Starbucks and I’m always reminded how bad it actually tastes.
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u/torturekiller2025 19h ago
I like ising a French press. I'm the only one that drinks it at home, and I don't drink a lot... I think.
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u/know-it-mall 17h ago
Yea I don't get why more people don't just use a French press or percolator.
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u/Oscaruit 17h ago
Because aeropress, chemex or a vario pour over are superior.
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u/bassistciaran 9h ago
Yeah but a french press costs like 10 bucks, requires almost no effort or knowledge to operate and can take any old coffee in it.
Even used poorly with cheap preground coffee, its still better than Starbucks.
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u/Able-Bid-6637 9h ago
I make black coffee for guests and they’re frequently like, “this is the best coffee I’ve ever had 👁️👄👁️” and it’s… whatever coffee beans were on sale ground in a french press……
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u/DapperMolasses3280 7h ago
For real...once you use a French Press, it's hard to go back to anything else lol, the only option is to go fancier, like an Aeropress, but it's going to be marginal at that point, leaving coffee in a French Press overnight makes some of the strongest coffee this side of a cappuccino 😛
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u/masterpepeftw 7h ago
Yeah I mean pour over looks fun and all but a french press is cheap and idiot proof and I love it.
Cheap espresso machines have also gotten way better over the years but they still cost orders of magnitude more and need very well ground coffee.
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u/know-it-mall 14h ago edited 13h ago
Yea but they do take a bit more effort for only marginally better results so I don't really bother. If you do that's awesome.
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u/DapperMolasses3280 7h ago
Sure, but compared to a regular coffee pot, or even a kcup machine (depending on the settings), it's fantastic.
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u/hareofthepuppy 13h ago
Have you tried a moka pot? I used to use a french press, but a friend got me to switch a couple years ago. If you like your coffee strong or like espresso, it's the way to go.
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u/torturekiller2025 7h ago
I like my coffee strong enough to tap me in the cheek to wake me up, not punch me in the face.
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u/iamnotasnook 14h ago
I like using a french press because I don't need to also buy filters to make coffee.
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u/LinuxMint4Me 19h ago
That's the tiniest coffeemaker I've ever seen.
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u/Zwamdurkel 19h ago
This better be a joke
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u/AshtonBlack 11h ago
I detest Starbucks espresso. Their beans are "blended" to achieve national consistency, and they're over-roasted to extract the maximum amount from each both things make it at once "bland" and "bitter".
They taste like sadness and ashes.
I would rather drink English Breakfast Tea, with a splash of milk, than their coffee.
There is a ton of choice these days. Starbucks was a pioneer of the hyper-scale chain brands, but they've never, in my opinion, had good coffee.
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u/__generic 10h ago
Starbucks isn't popular because the coffee is good. The people who go to Starbucks are getting drinks that are so full of sugar that it masks any kind of coffee taste.
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u/Oldspaghetti 19h ago
Star Fucks ✨👨❤️💋👨✨
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u/LoocsinatasYT 19h ago
you literally don't even need that machine. All you need is coffee grounds and a coffee filter!
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u/DetectiveExisting590 17h ago
Instant coffee is better than ever.
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u/Ill_Session_6725 18h ago
Cowboy coffee. No filters needed. A pot, coffee grounds, water, and a cup/mug.
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u/LimeGrass619 19h ago
We have a coffee machine yet my mom still prefers fast food coffee. Not Starbucks, but she likes McDonald's. Its basically my dad's machine coffee machind.
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u/Robomartian323 17h ago
Whenever I’m on the road and need of coffee, McDonalds is definitely my top choice
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u/nderhill__ 16h ago
I was told Tim Hortons changed their bean supplier to save money, and McDonalds now uses the old Tim Horton beans. I don’t know if that’s true or not.
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u/Throbbing_Cock_452 18h ago
McDonald’s coffee is surprisingly acceptable. Better than Starbucks no doubt.
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u/Oleleplop 9h ago
I had Starbucks once and genuinely don't understand how its a legit business
Its overpriced and not good
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u/MourningWallaby 7h ago
because Starbucks brought the idea of a European Cafe to America, and transformed it into the American coffee shop.
they used to not be bad or too expensive, either. but over time as the coffee got worse and the prices got higher, it was already a household name
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u/KevB318 15h ago
It's coffee for people who don't like coffee. Let them have their special moment.
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u/Ok-Blackberry8086 12h ago
Even then, you can get a fully automated espresso+cappuccino maker at home for really not that much compared to the amount people waste at coffee shops. You add a bit of syrup to that and you've got your sugary garbage for $0.50 a cup.
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u/claudiocorona93 Linux User 14h ago edited 6h ago
No coffee tastes like the ones made in the coffee makers powered by fire.
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u/maybebaebea 19h ago
Everything at starbucks sucks. My grandma was gifted some starbucks hot coco packs and they were AWFUL. Tasted burnt no matter how they were prepared. So gross. A client of mine gifted me a starbucks gift card and I gave it to my aunt
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u/Lolomelon 19h ago
A pour-over costs me 5 cents per cup, using tasty coffee.
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u/agentsmithbobby 15h ago
Yeah with decent coffee beans it's the easiest and cheapest option which always makes great coffee.
For terrible beans I use a cold brew jug and it's always great. It's really forgiving and great in summer
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u/makawakatakanaka 19h ago
Or be like my wife who makes coffe at home then also buys it out and about
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u/CommonCumin 16h ago
So here you are, bitching about people bitching.
And here I am bitching about you bitching about people bitching.
The Internet was made for bitching.
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u/Big-Orse48 15h ago
USA and terrible coffee go hand in hand
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u/hareofthepuppy 13h ago
To be fair most countries I've been to have terrible coffee culture, but when you visit or live in one that doesn't... wow
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u/Jack_Crypt 14h ago
Starbucks is for people who like a teaspoon of coffee with their cup of sugar.
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u/Auctoritate 13h ago
People say this like customers only ever order ristretto macchiatos, as if their cold brews (which are just cups of coffee) aren't also super popular.
It's for people who REALLY like sugar, sure, but they also still sell regular reasonable coffees
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u/debid4716 19h ago
My only complaint with them is how often the coffee tastes burnt
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u/Sentinel555666 6h ago
I'm yet to taste a coffee that's better than what i make at home in 2 minutes and 30 seconds (including clean up) , and at a cost of 40 cents per 250ml ( including milk and sugar)
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u/A2Rhombus 8h ago
I prefer espresso over drip coffee. With that said, fuck Starbucks, support your local coffee shops
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u/Zestyclose-Try-5214 19h ago
Starcucks. Even simpler is the fucking $1.50 coffee I grabbed last night at dollarama
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u/Minnecraft Plays MineCraft and not FortNite 19h ago
I dont think you should fuck a $1.50 coffee, especially if its hot. It doesn't matter you get it at dollarama or whatever
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u/Twink_Link_738 19h ago
True, but i havnt the benchspace for one, i barely have room for a chopping board as it is
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u/lifeintraining 18h ago
Their coffee isn’t even that good. Go to different coffee shops and try their black coffee. Whichever one tastes best is probably where you should be going for your specialty drinks.
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u/Carbonated-Man 18h ago
I bring this up to my friends at work constantly. Love my black and decker. Got it pretty cheap at Walmart like a decade ago and it still runs fine. Never had a single problem with it. A full pot ready to go whenever I want it? Heaven.
And then most of them talk about how they prefer K-cups because they only need 1 cup at a time. And then they also proceed to whine about how expensive K-cups have gotten. 😆
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u/Individual_Slice_234 16h ago
Me too. When I was working, I took a little thermos of coffee to work every morning. It lasted all day, kept nice and hot, and didn't waste any paper or cardboard.
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u/carlos5577 19h ago
The modern version is to just buy a super automatic coffee maker. Bean to coffee is better.
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u/camus88 16h ago
Starbucks is like their way to validate their social status for them. It's like buying the latest Iphone even though their old Iphone only 2 year old, or buy unnecessary expensive bag. Plus they're not drink coffee. They're just buy bunch of sugar water "for their gram"
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u/SeedFoundation 18h ago
People buying starbucks everyday act like they can't afford an espresso machine. Your drive to starbucks takes longer to make the exact same drink and cost like 50 cents to a dollar per cup.
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u/hareofthepuppy 13h ago
Or a moka pot, far cheaper than any espresso machine, and honestly better than most affordable espresso machines.
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u/Techno_Beiber 17h ago
Friend bought a nespresso so he could stop going to starbucks. Just didn't taste the same and the pods were expensive so he bought a breville semi automatic espresso machine. He said a bag of coffee beans were cheaper.
It finally tasted right when he was grinding them beans. Turns out he didnt like the cleaning up and maintenance of having said espresso beans.
He went back to starbucks and both are just sitting in his kitchen unused.
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u/arizonadirtbag12 16h ago
There are a dozen different options of Nespresso pods and they ain’t expensive compared to going back to Starbucks.
Don’t get me wrong, plenty to criticize with Nespresso and it’s not the best choice. But if you’re truly lazy and want a push-button option for a solid cup of coffee into a travel mug on the way out the door…or a double espresso shot on the weekend…they’re not bad.
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u/TravelingStacker 17h ago
I can afford the machine. Problem is I have nowhere to put it.
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u/Elebrium 16h ago
There are some extremely thin machine that are decent ( still better than SB) and they cost $110 in my case. I have been using it twice a day, just need to remember to descale it. But basically imagine having 2 Starbucks a day when my coffee costs me less than $1.50 at most
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u/Hour_Maximum7966 19h ago
Dang we can't have a genuine intelligent discussion nowadays without someone suggesting something completely idiotic.
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u/envoy_ace 19h ago
I bought a 12 cup model 3 days ago. The nearest starbucks for me is over 30 miles.
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u/Mobile_Morale 17h ago
If I didn't like getting pussy. I would have never stepped into a Starbucks. I don't even like coffee.
Such a stupid experience and trying to order a drink involves a statistics degree.
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u/ryuujinusa 3h ago
Yep. It takes less than 5 minutes to brew coffee at home and literally costs orders of magnitude less. Like pennies per cup. Compared to the $12 at starbucks for shitily brewed burned water.
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u/TopDogTransport4731 19h ago edited 19h ago
Went to Starbucks because I got a gift card and I ordered for a black coffee and all the baristas stopped what they were doing and looked at me like I was an alien. Didn’t add anything no cream, sugar or any of that caramel or chocolate
Edit: Chocolate not chicken
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u/a_real_vampire Royal Shitposter 19h ago
That chicken coffee on a cold autumn morning hits hard tho.
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u/justlastsummer 18h ago
i worked at starbucks for 3 months man and we would get multiple black coffees a day. this did not happen to you
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u/Various-Salt-7738 19h ago
Well you're probably the only person who that's ever actually happened to
You either visit a Starbucks with very strange staff or you are an actual alien
What barista would be confused or bothered by someone wanting drip coffee poured into a cup-- Starbucks even has a station with stir sticks and multiple sweeteners for the people that order exactly what you ordered
Their coffee sucks anyway; they intentionally over roast it so the experience is consistent across all locations but it just tastes like burnt coffee
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u/Beginning_Annual5816 18h ago
no exaclty, like if someone is ordering black coffee my immediate thought is "thank god, its just drip". Anyone in food service isnt going to stop what they're doing to gather round for a normal and basic order, theyll stop what theyre doing for the weird ones. At most it'll get joked about in the back for a second.
this has to be rage bait, its following the same themes as those conservative coffee shop arguments.
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u/Auctoritate 13h ago
A barista or two probably just paused to see what the order was to could start making it, and that person mistook it as befuddlement lol
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u/Dildondo 17h ago
The most plausible reason is the employees looked in their general direction and they imagined a scenario in their head that never happened.
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u/FLICKGEEK1 13h ago
Former barista here. While we do honestly and truly love people who drink black coffee with nothing in it, theres also the 50/50 chance that the person who orders a cup of "Coffee, black" will come back with this disgusted look because they meant "10 sugar packets and an inch of heavy cream".
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u/BagOnuts 9h ago
lol, shut up.
If they stopped what they were doing to look at you, it wasn’t because of your order. I can guarantee that.
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u/ajchafe 7h ago
I don't bother with Starbucks because they are union busters and on the BDS list, but I don't actually think their coffee is THAT bad. It's no worse or better than other crappy fast food coffee. I get WHY people go for fast food coffee though; I don't even have kids and I find it hard to get things done in the morning before work between walking my dog, making breakfast, etc. I think that is a huge part for most people.
That being said, you can get a programmable coffee maker or even just put the grounds and water in the machine the night before which is what I do for weekday morning drip.
Anyway, don't support Starbucks. Find a better local small business instead if you don't make your own.
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u/Sneezy6510 19h ago
I like Starbucks because I like espresso.
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u/LifeIsOkayIGuess 13h ago
With how expensive their coffee costs, it honestly makes sense to just get an espresso machine to use at home. I got a breville machine and bean grinder and doing the math, they would pay for themselves in under a year compared to going to a cafe.
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u/Sneezy6510 13h ago
I don’t have Starbucks everyday. I do make espresso at home. It’s a when in Rome type thing. My wife use to work at Starbucks and would bring me home drinks. It’s nostalgic if you will.
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u/werewolf013 19h ago
Really? As an espresso lover myself I'm surprised to hear that opinion.
I can't stand starfucks espresso. Something about them tastes super chemically. Like they didn't rinse the machine after running a cleaner through it. Tried multiple times and multiple locations so I know that's not the case. Carribou Coffee is much better despite their recent collapse in quality. Making my own even with cheap beans and a cheap machine is a million times better any coffee from starfucks. 3rd worst coffee I've ever had.
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u/Oscaruit 17h ago
People like what they like. If you've only ever had Starbucks your pallette probably would reject a cafe's custom blended espresso. It would probably taste "weak" or bland. I knew a guy that loved starbucks beans from costco. He gave me some. They were rancid from the oil. He thought it was greatest coffee on earth.
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u/know-it-mall 18h ago
So the solution to not overpaying for bad coffee is to pay less over time for bad coffee?
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u/randomredditacc25 17h ago
whats peoples obsession with saying starbucks coffee is bad...have you guys ever thought that maybe the people who buy it dont agree?
who tf buys expensive coffee that they dont like? again and again.
no one, i get it some people dont like it, thats fine.
but i dont think its a big company because people who dont like it buy it constantly.
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u/IcyTransportation961 17h ago
Plenty of people take in bad quality things repeatedly because of habit, be it food or media or behavior
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u/axlsnaxle 19h ago
Aside from the fact that their coffee tastes like either dirty ass or a glorified milkshake, I don't support Union-busters.
Fuck Starbucks.