Starbuck's Coffee is Laced With Crap

So this morning an old, good friend, Leah, called me at a ridiculously early hour to tell me she was in town. Now the Farmer's Market is no big deal for me since I live right next to it, but she'd not been living in town for years, so that was the only thing she could think about, so needless to say that's where we ended up.

Taking a seat at the little raised area where they served breakfast, oddly being able to actually get a seat despite it being after 9:30 and every living soul in the city buzzing around. But looking at the menu we noticed they had both coffee and “Starbuck's Coffee.” Leaving aside the buzzkill that the presence of a Starbuck's can have on the wholesome image of a farmer's market, my initial reaction was “why on earth would anyone want to drink Starbuck's coffee if they had the choice?” Leah was rather baffled by my lack of enthusiasm, saying something about having just been on a trip to Seattle and staying in a house on Puget Sound next to the mansion of one of the founders of the company. But that, of course, doesn't change the fact that they sell burnt, stale, over-brewed coffee that sits in a bucket and gets pumped out like so much industrial effluent to make up the base for their flavoured warm milkshakes people love so much. Which is fine, for that purpose, no one could taste good or bad coffee underneath 6oz of whipped cream and cocoa anyway. But the idea of drinking it on its own is just bizarre.

Now it's true that most people don't know good coffee from bad, and I don't want to sound like a coffee snob, as I've been known to press the power button on a coffee maker to re-heat the last cup now and then, but Starbuck's should not even qualify as a potable substance. So anyway, just to be a belligerent prick, I very specifically ordered the “regular coffee” after she ordered her branded version. Long story short, she ended up not finishing hers.

PS. Stuffed French toast, which ends up being a fried cream cheese sandwich, is like nirvana in my spiritual quest for food that will kill me.

Will write more on the prevention of abuse of coffee beans in future.