Unabomber Posted 21 July 2015 Posted 21 July 2015 I also drink Taylors Hot Lava Java (strength 6) so it's not like I can't handle coffee.
Stadt Posted 21 July 2015 Posted 21 July 2015 (strength 6) I also drink Taylors Hot Lava Java (strength 6) so it's not like I can't handle coffee.
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 21 July 2015 Author Posted 21 July 2015 I love Blue Mountain coffee, but it's bloody expensive. Starbucks tastes like dishwater, compared to Costa, imo. My other half is Costa crazy, and she would spend all day there if she could. Everywhere we go, her first task, is to find Costa. She's really addicted to it, for some reason, but then, I'm addicted to real ale.
Monk Posted 22 July 2015 Posted 22 July 2015 For me, there's coffee, and there's chain coffee. I often get drinks from Starbucks and Costa but to me it's a different drink to what you get at a decent independent place. Starbucks Pike Place filter coffee is alright as filters go, but everything else from there is to milky for me these days. Costa, if you get a good barista on a good day can be decent. Their cortado isn't bad at all. There's a little roastery near my house called Steam Punk, and they supply a fair bit of edinburgh a coffee scene. Mostly brilliant coffees, with plenty of unusual blends. They also sell the beans to a local farm shop who totally butcher it and make a terrible burned milk mess of it. It's not all about the coffee.
Rob1742 Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 Both horrendous places, huge corporations that have brainwashed grown men to feel the need that they need a coffee. A bloke at work is like this, he will do a few hours work and then say "I can't go on unless I get a Starbucks". We all think he has grew a fanny. The High Streets are full of these places, where the masses flock to spend their £3 that only a few years ago they wouldn't dream of spending it on coffee. Then there are the twitterers, who have a little wee and post a picture if they have a coffee with something different in it like caramel. I can understand wanting to stop and have a break in a nice Italian cafe, but to have created this myth in your head to need a Starbucks or whatever has these huge corporations laughing all the way to the bank. You have helped create this corporate high street we have in our bland cities, you have been taken in by it all and are part to blame why our cities are like what they are.
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 Then there are the twitterers, who have a little wee and post a picture if they have a coffee with something different in it like caramel. Never understood this, there's loads of people who do it as well I can almost understand taking a photo of an outstanding dinner or a massive eating challenge, but a coffee or a pint? Unless you're from one of those proper third world dives, who gives a shit if you're having a normal drink?
Brizzle Fox Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 I can't drink coffee unless I know it's provenance. I have to have at the very least the name of the plantation worker who picked my beans and then the barista has to warm the said beans in front of me with a bunsen burner before he starts constructing my beverage. you just don't get that attention to detail at either Costa or Starbucks
Wymsey Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 Starbucks or Victoria Secrets?.....Who charges more per cup?
Smudge Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 I actually like roasting my own coffee... you can buy green coffee beans if you know the right people. And you know those electric paint strippers that burn the paint off, well you can use those to roast the cofee. Remember- you need two cracks for the best tasting coffee!!! Stick that on your tea horse and ride it! Cool! Where are the beans from? We buy a lot of Starbucks Colombian whole beans at about $12 a lb. I see you can buy green beans for half of that.
Footballwipe Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 See, this is the advantage of not liking coffee. Give me a bottle of Pepsi Max any day
Babylon Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 Order of dickheadishness.... 1) Coffee Snobs who moan about people who have starbucks all the time, whilst discussing an amazing coffee they had where the beans were puked up by a vole in outer mongolia. 2) People who walk around holding themas flasks with handles, holding the coffee they made at home. 3) People who need a coffee and a fag before they start work. Clearly addictive personalities and probably one step away from being an alcoholic or a crack addict. 4) People who take their laptops into starbucks, or a book, in an attempt to look cool and intellectual. 5) People who make numbered lists about things they hate. All way more annoying than people who just go to starbucks a lot.
Ollie93 Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 Order of dickheadishness.... 1) Coffee Snobs who moan about people who have starbucks all the time, whilst discussing an amazing coffee they had where the beans were puked up by a vole in outer mongolia. 2) People who walk around holding themas flasks with handles, holding the coffee they made at home. 3) People who need a coffee and a fag before they start work. Clearly addictive personalities and probably one step away from being an alcoholic or a crack addict. 4) People who take their laptops into starbucks, or a book, in an attempt to look cool and intellectual. 5) People who make numbered lists about things they hate. All way more annoying than people who just go to starbucks a lot. This. No-one needs a coffee before they can work. Its stupid and ridiculous.
Jattdogg Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 I require a cup of tea before my day starts. We all have our own vices. Starbucksters might think we are all twats for paying to see grown men kick a ball around. That said marketing works well to make us believe that our wants are in fact true needs. Time for some digested, shat out of a cats arse coffee.
Richmondfox Posted 24 July 2015 Posted 24 July 2015 Costa coffee makes me feel ill. Headachey. I also drink Taylors Hot Lava Java (strength 6) so it's not like I can't handle coffee. That's because it's the cheapest low quality beans they can get away with. All coffee beans have mould on them to some level, the toxins cause the spikes and crash and stomach aches, small crop farms clean the beans better. I wouldn't drink from any of the high st chains as i'm not a savage. I prefer filter coffee and flat whites, Americanos are the worst, they are too hot, have no flavour and end up tasting of wax and plastic from the cup. I'm a coffee snob and i'm fully aware what i'm typing is pretentious but then I grew up in Thurnby Lodge, I know where i'm from and where i'd rather be, looking out across Richmond Hill stroking my lighthouse keeper beard (hipster) rather than down Nursery Road wearing a two piece tracksuit and cap. I get my coffee from www.pactcoffee.com it's a boutique roasters in london who deliver through the post. They roast the beans in house every few weeks so the taste is fresh, rather than store bought which is roasted over 6 months ago. Has anyone tried cold brew coffee? If you can nip into your local Wholefoods try Sandows Cold Brew.
AyewJoking Posted 24 July 2015 Posted 24 July 2015 GREGGS latte A new challenger steps into the ring...
Babylon Posted 24 July 2015 Posted 24 July 2015 A new challenger steps into the ring... I like the Greggs Mocha.... only 50p with your sarnie at lunch.
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 24 July 2015 Author Posted 24 July 2015 I do drink Earl Gray tea, at home, though not in tea bags, and of course the Blue Mountain fresh coffee.
Molly Posted 24 July 2015 Posted 24 July 2015 I do drink Earl Gray tea, at home, though not in tea bags, and of course the Blue Mountain fresh coffee. Grey
Izzy Posted 24 July 2015 Posted 24 July 2015 That's because it's the cheapest low quality beans they can get away with. All coffee beans have mould on them to some level, the toxins cause the spikes and crash and stomach aches, small crop farms clean the beans better. I wouldn't drink from any of the high st chains as i'm not a savage. I prefer filter coffee and flat whites, Americanos are the worst, they are too hot, have no flavour and end up tasting of wax and plastic from the cup. I'm a coffee snob and i'm fully aware what i'm typing is pretentious but then I grew up in Thurnby Lodge, I know where i'm from and where i'd rather be, looking out across Richmond Hill stroking my lighthouse keeper beard (hipster) rather than down Nursery Road wearing a two piece tracksuit and cap. I get my coffee from www.pactcoffee.com it's a boutique roasters in london who deliver through the post. They roast the beans in house every few weeks so the taste is fresh, rather than store bought which is roasted over 6 months ago. Has anyone tried cold brew coffee? If you can nip into your local Wholefoods try Sandows Cold Brew. Interesting. I've learnt something new about coffee here. Everyday is a school day on FT!
promised land Posted 24 July 2015 Posted 24 July 2015 My choice in order would be Cafe Nero, Costa and at the bottom Starbucks. What winds me up about Starbucks is the asking your name then writing it on your cup. It's like you're a five year old at school, 'latte for Peter'. (Peter's just an eg) Just say Latte like all the other places do as you're in a queue so they know who's drinks who's.
Monk Posted 24 July 2015 Posted 24 July 2015 GREGGS latte Greggs coffee is genuinely the stuff of nightmares. Horrific stuff.
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