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  faciliti

  08/05/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Starbucks in a Land of Coffee Snobs | BTalk Australia

  Perhaps (I thought), it was just that I was not a coffee snob. Try as I might to like it, the Starbuck's coffee flavor was just not my "cup of tea". The aroma was heady, but the taste was bitter and burned -- I felt. So, there I was in San Jose (in the San Francisco Bay Area), politely keeping my opinions on the flavor of Seattle's Totem, to myself.
  As an architectural designer, I was taken by the modernity of the Starbucks image and their slick products. But the coffee? No.
  Give me the no-name, unchained, corner coffee shops any time.
  
  We are kin, you people of the Southern Cross, and I.
  
  -Raymond MacFarlane
  San Jose, California
  August 2008

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  1261943

  08/06/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Starbucks in a Land of Coffee Snobs | BTalk Australia

  I agree with you Ray. The coffee is bitter. Just got back from a visit to Vienna and the coffee there is far much better, smoother, and enjoyable. I didn't like the strength of the coffee at Starbucks, nor the size, come to think of it, the last time I sat in one of those joints it must've been some two years ago.
  
  Jim Barghouti / Dubai

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  dancealot

  08/06/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Starbucks in a Land of Coffee Snobs | BTalk Australia

  They should support the troops and not snub them!

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  Hairmonia BCN

  08/07/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Starbucks in a Land of Coffee Snobs | BTalk Australia

  I was always very surprised with its success. For me it was too much quantity of coffee (not that great) and expensive. As they say too much o a good thing is bad.
  The market is wise and the snobs when else where for the next thing. I hope that those who lost they're jobs find it in a cozy corner bar with good coffee.