Don't laugh at me, but what is ...?

Buzz-sawyer · February 14, 2006, 08:31:25 PM

I was thinkin...maybe you are the leader...and the hidden agenda is ultimate caffienation, and conversion to ARABICA.....of the poor ROBUSTO lovin masses ??? ???

Kirk_Allen · February 14, 2006, 10:12:43 PM

:D :D :D :D :D

IMERC · February 14, 2006, 10:32:35 PM

Quote from: Kirk Allen on February 13, 2006, 09:10:20 AM
IMERC

So if Starbucks is a cult who is the leader and what belief are they promoting? ???

YUPPIES or whatever is PC nowadays...
No clue on the promoting

getoverit · February 15, 2006, 12:03:09 AM

I drink coffee all day every day, and really enjoy the stuff. I've even been to South America where the stuff grows, and picked my own coffee beans. I like it hot, cold, cool, warm, iced or just about any way you can think of as long as it is black with nothing else in it.

I think I have bought maybe 5 cups of starbucks coffee in my lifetime, and havent made it to the bottom of a cup yet without pouring it out. It is ok when you cant get anything better to drink and need caffine, but there are limits to what I will do to my taste buds.

isassi · February 15, 2006, 05:53:54 AM

Couldn't keep quiet after the last few... :D...This is another defining moment for some of us. I guess I'm very dull, but I drink Folgers, every morning. When I was trucking, all across this great country, I do not remember any one place having coffee that would make me oooh and ahhh over. Now don't get me wrong, lots of coffee was burnt, stale, nasty, could be used to dispose of dead animals and tires, but generally, coffee is coffee to me. Guess it proves I have no taste or no culture, like the opposite of the guys who drink Scotch ;D or eat caviar....

Oh yeah, I have never had Starbucks coffee or caviar ...

Modat22 · February 15, 2006, 10:45:55 AM

I walked around for a long time thinking that BattleStar Galactica the original series was becoming popular again. Starbuck was the name of one of the main characters.

Paul_H · February 15, 2006, 08:52:53 PM

I love coffee and my favorite kind is the first and second cup in the morning but I'll drink it lukewarm or cold or even yesterdays leftovers if I have to,and like Getoverit,always black and strong.I do have very strict rules when buying coffee,it must be on sale.

I sometimes make up a special blend to drink,the other day I took the last scoop and a half of Folgers from the can and mixed it in with the freshly opened Nabob(on sale)

SwampDonkey · February 15, 2006, 08:58:07 PM

The little pouches of Costa Rican coffee where $2.99 around Christmas. I see they jumped to $3.99 in the new year, that curbed my craving. I'll be using the 1 KG for 4.99 (sale) Maxwell House for awhile. :D

Steve · February 15, 2006, 09:26:40 PM

My wife and I also like our coffee. I haven't bought it out of a can for years and years. Gotta be beans. Now I'm really into this organic, shade grown by happy farmers from Costa Rica kind. I have been roasting our own once a week or so. Now the fun is in figuring which roast we like best.
Is it the 5 min, 6 min or even 8 minute roast from the thrift store air popper?

Max sawdust · February 15, 2006, 10:17:23 PM

Here in Northern Wisconsin, I have NO coffee beans growing and the price of "fancy" beans is kinda high

so the stuff on sale in the can works for most days of the week. (I must admit if I can not kill it or grow it I am cheap :

) However I do break out the Costa Rica happy farmer beans for special occasions though;D

Steve,
You get green coffee beans sent to Hawaii from Costa Rica? Tell me more...
What about the good beans you have in Hawaii?

Max

isassi · February 16, 2006, 06:58:45 AM

Hey Steve? Don't you guys in Hawaii have local coffee? Like Kona? I had some Kona coffee...couldn't really tell the difference ( I have no taste or class), and after trying it, I couldn't see the 5 or 10 dollars a pound for it + shipping. ;)

Jim_Wahl · February 16, 2006, 10:15:06 AM

I guess I'm one of those guys who'll take it any way he can get it. Even Starbucks. It is even more expensive when you
realize that you aren't really buying, just renting it for a while. Kind of like beer that way.

Steve · February 16, 2006, 10:42:55 AM

Joasis

I moved to Oregon about a year ago. Hawaiian coffee is great but like most of Hawaii the price is ridiculous!

MSU_Keith · February 16, 2006, 04:25:54 PM

Besides a coffee shop, Starbuck was Capt. Ahabs first mate in Moby Dick...I still remember struggling through that one in school. :

IMERC · February 17, 2006, 02:26:03 AM

Quote from: MSU_Keith on February 16, 2006, 04:25:54 PM
Besides a coffee shop, Starbuck was Capt. Ahabs first mate in Moby Dick...I still remember struggling through that one in school. :

I thought that was Ishmeal

iain · February 17, 2006, 05:54:43 AM

Your both wrong, according to my boysn Starbuck is the fit looking lady viper pilot on Battle Star Galactica, or if you old the idot from the tv series

iain (happey to correct) ;)

eagles nest · February 17, 2006, 06:21:06 AM

i beleve star bucks was the boyfrend of the fitt looking hot lady on battlestar ;)
i like mine from folgers & a little weak

tryed theres once and gaged what a waste

SwampDonkey · February 17, 2006, 06:35:51 AM

I ~~like~~ can handle my own as well or better than from most coffee shops. ;D

Buzz-sawyer · February 18, 2006, 04:34:41 PM

When I was down in Callihan last month with Mr Tom and Mr Getoverit.....I learned what yesterdays coffee is good for, as a matter of fact it is MANDATORY that it be stale.....RED EYE gravy 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Frickman · February 18, 2006, 07:24:22 PM

I must be really out of the loop if so many of you know what this Starbucks thing and I don't. I don't necessarily live in the middle of nowhere, I just don't pay attention to alot of things outside of lumber and farming. I'd rather be out in the woods doing anything than sitting around a city.

Reid, I'm quite familiar with Pechin's. If Starbucks is the opposite, I get the idea. Yes folks, you can go there and eat lunch for a dollar. Pechins is it's own mini-mall with grocery, hardware, sporting goods, and other stores. Their competitive advantage is low overhead, they don't spend a nickel on a building if they don't have to. The old grocery was partially built above a stream, and you could look down through the floor to the water. Their meat is so low of a price that shoppers have gotten in fistfights over it.

Apparantly this Starbucks thing markets coffee the way Arky and I market wood. I can sell "Special, hand selected oak with unique, multi-colored streaks throughout the wood that give it each board characteristics like no other" for more than oak without any mineral stain. ;D ;D Same goes for gum streaks in cherry. If they can make a profit making people feel special about buying bad coffee then more power to them.

Don_Papenburg · February 18, 2006, 07:52:49 PM

Just got an email from my cousin that was sent to him by an oldMarine .
Seems he was in WAshington while his wife took a class or some thing and found out that Starbucks got a request from some Marines in Iraq . They liked SBcoffe and wanted SB to send them some to Iraq Starbucks sent them a note thanking them for their interest in Starbucks coffee ,But since SB did not support the war and any one that was there they would not send the Marines any coffee . :( >:( >:(

Buzz-sawyer · February 18, 2006, 08:54:33 PM

I know its trendy (SB)....but come on....no body is that stupid ....that is economic sucide....sounds like an urban legend ??? :D :D

Jodi · February 18, 2006, 09:05:32 PM

Aw man, I have no place in this coffee thread. I'm a tea granny.

Onthesauk · February 18, 2006, 10:47:30 PM

Urban legand. I've seen news clips of Starbucks being served there.

dail_h · February 18, 2006, 11:09:48 PM

Dail's Daughter Jennie:

I would just like to say that I wish I had known that sooner! I've been a pretty avid Starbucks drinker, but not anymore! That just shows what communist losers they are! I'll be sure to tell everyone that I know not to drink Starbucks anymore! I'm glad dad showed me this!

If you want to help the "war effort" check out this website...Any Marine

Thanks guys