Granted I only go to Starbucks if it’s the only option when travelling for work but I’ve never had anything food or drink there wasn’t disgusting. I’d rather eat the stuff i can buy on the train (which is saying something) or shove a pilfered conference sandwich in the laptop bag for later. The drinks are gross. they can’t make tea at all, and the coffee is like a bucket sized cup of sweet yet bitter water. All the baked goods have that weird sweaty cold rubbery thing going on like the muffins you get wrapped in plastic. It’s repulsive and barely edible, all of it. gHow can you get addicted to it? Do they put crack in the smoothies in the states or one thing? Little shaker of crack to top the cream with?
If you (not you
@Otterly but the general you) are eating anything from Starbucks than you should reconsider your decisions in life. Shit is fast food.
I assumed by Starbucks addiction she meant their horrible sugar based “coffee” drinks which if true, makes her whole diet moot because that’s easily way too much sugar to have (I am assuming the yogurt drinks were fortified with sugar.)
Starbucks coffee is fucking horrible; it’s the only coffee I can’t drink black. It needs milk.
That’s general rule for coffee; if you can’t drink it black, then don’t fucking drink it. Those calories add up, even it’s just milk or cream.
If you really need caffeine but can’t drink coffee black then just get some caffeine tablets. It’s MUCH cheaper and your teeth with thank you later on.
I personally love black coffee to the point where I buy green coffee beans and roast them myself. All you need is pan, a stove, and about thirty mins of stirring. There are gadgets out there that will do it for you but they tend to too small for my consumption levels but they do work and you don’t need to constantly watch it. It’s not hard at all, you can control the temperature, and it is fucking cheap. Last time I did the math, it came out to $.65 a cup.
Every other weekend I roast about half a pound, let it sit for 24 hours and keep it in the freezer until I need to grind it.
Pour over coffee made from good beans tastes good; it doesn’t need milk or sugar. Plus, if you get good at cooking coffee, you can give it to people and if they know coffee, they will appreciate it.
People these days are either too fucking lazy or bought into the idea that every cup of coffee should be bought at a coffee shop which is wasteful on so many levels; not only money but the trash created is disgusting. Also, those cups are lined with some sort of petroleum derived film that’s not good for you. That and combined with a plastic lid and boom — micro plastics up the Wazzu.
Edit - sorry for the autistic power leveling. I just find modern coffee culture to be excessive and dumb
