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Post by BrewDaddy on Apr 15, 2022 21:35:24 GMT
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 16, 2022 0:33:54 GMT
I can proudly say I've never spent a dime at a Starbucks, and there's a second verse to that song.
I look at it this way, by not buying their overpriced juice four days a week, I can buy a 50# bag of oats for the flock, and sip my home-ground & brewed coffee as I watch them enjoy it.
I've got a hunch it's become a status symbol to have an empty Starbucks cup on a person's floorboard. Personally, I"d rather have fat sheep.
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Post by fixitguy on Apr 16, 2022 1:17:49 GMT
A girl here bought a brand-new concession trailer and out fitted it for overpriced coffee and muffins. This week they set up in an empty lot close to my repair shop. Today every time I left to run some place; she had a car pulled up to the window. The funny thing is they don't open until 7 a.m. Most of the heavy car traffic is from 5-7 a.m, then 3-6 p.m. Anyone with some business since, could figure out your best sales times and be open those hours.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 16, 2022 1:48:27 GMT
There's a coffee trailer in the parking lot of the little feed store I use. They're doing a land rush business at the intersection of a very minor blacktop and a not very busy north/south highway. You'd think country folk would be less likely to splurge on what they could easily make at home, but nope. I've no idea what they charge, but you can bet it's about 30 times what it costs at home.
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Post by fixitguy on Apr 16, 2022 4:32:04 GMT
The coffee trailer here runs $5-7 per drink, and a muffin is $5. Pretty spendy over the long term. Everyone has their thing thou.
My buddy's ex-wife would spend $25 per day at Starbucks during the work week and drove 30 miles round trip on sunday morning for a coffee. It cost him about 200K to get rid of her. Lol
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Post by Tim Horton on Apr 16, 2022 7:16:05 GMT
We were in Vancouver ....spit... for a week once to a set of meetings for a provincial wide organization Sweetie worked for.. She was key to setting up and organizing this event.. She would have breakfast at the hotel, I would have coffee.. It was decent.. She would go to work, I would go to the fisherman café by the cannery on the bay for breakfast.. They had coffee that would float an anchor and better food than the hotel... Anything they made with smoked salmon was most wonderful...
The hotel had a big Starbucks in the lobby.. I did try 2-3 different things you would think they couldn't screw up ....but they did.... There steeped tea was the worst... It was nothing near our favorites being Red Rose or Tetley brands.. I bought tea bags at a local place and we made tea in the room with the wee coffee maker they provided...
There was a Tim Hortons right inside the main entrance to a small mall close.. Before the end of the week when they saw me come in they would start making an extra large "double, double".....
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Post by Wyatt on Apr 16, 2022 9:55:05 GMT
I have never understood the attraction of Starbucks. They dark roast nearly every one of their coffees and to me they come off as tasting burnt. The coffee for me is Tim Horton's out of Canada. I used to drive all over up there, and from Nova Scotia to Vancouver Island the coffee is perfectly consistent. A Double Double at any Tim Horton's is the same in Dartmouth, NS as it is in Nanaimo, BC on the island and all points in between. I have found a source for it in the states and can make 24 ounces of the best coffee I ever drank for $0.40.
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Post by Wyatt on Apr 16, 2022 10:13:04 GMT
We were in Vancouver ....spit... for a week once to a set of meetings for a provincial wide organization Sweetie worked for.. She was key to setting up and organizing this event.. She would have breakfast at the hotel, I would have coffee.. It was decent.. She would go to work, I would go to the fisherman café by the cannery on the bay for breakfast.. They had coffee that would float an anchor and better food than the hotel... Anything they made with smoked salmon was most wonderful... The hotel had a big Starbucks in the lobby.. I did try 2-3 different things you would think they couldn't screw up ....but they did.... There steeped tea was the worst... It was nothing near our favorites being Red Rose or Tetley brands.. I bought tea bags at a local place and we made tea in the room with the wee coffee maker they provided... There was a Tim Hortons right inside the main entrance to a small mall close.. Before the end of the week when they saw me come in they would start making an extra large "double, double"..... You beat me to it on the plug for Timmies. I couldn't get it down last night because my eyes were crossing. When I ran Canada I was in BC quite a bit. Flew out of Vancouver airport a lot. Campbell River on the Island a few times, Surry, Kamloops, Kelowna, Crossed from Idaho near Glenlily on the way to Alberta, Salmon Arm, Revelstoke and Golden going through the Rockies. Too bad you're not closer. I make a marinated kippered salmon and a pâté out of it for a hobby. I wholesaled the pâté for $10 a pound 27 years ago and they sold it for $15. I sampled it at the Boston International Seafood show in Boston, Mass one year to people from all over the world. Although well received, I did not have the capability to produce in shipping container quantity. It was fun though.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Apr 16, 2022 11:46:02 GMT
fixitguy, around here the majority of people spending money like that at Starbucks are teachers. $7 coffee plus muffins weekdays and then drive to town on Sat/Sun for coffee and a newspaper. Then gripe they need a pay increase. I’ve had Starbucks coffee twice, I think. Dumped it out…tastes burnt. Would rather go without than drink that stuff. Don’t see the attraction.
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Post by Billy G on Apr 16, 2022 13:44:24 GMT
It is some nasty stuff, makes Micky D's coffee a much better choice when I wander away from home without my thermos. Had one once and gagged it down since it cost four bucks and I had to see what the draw was.
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Post by blackfeather on Apr 17, 2022 0:42:45 GMT
We had a Starbucks two doors down from the Radio Shack here, it went out of business even before the Radio Shack did. they built a Dunkin doughnuts and they are out of business. But there is a Tim Hortons on every corner it seems. Aside from the Tim Hortons stores, they are in gas stations, the local grocery store, the hospitals or any other place that attracts a lot of people. I just checked I found about 30 places in Niagara County alone.
I don't go there. I'm too cheap and I don't drink coffee. I counted three locations within a mile and a half of the Harbor Freight store where I work.
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Post by joebill on Apr 21, 2022 8:28:35 GMT
I used to have a run I made at least once per month filling up my dealer's stocks that took me deep into Mormon territory, and they do NOT drink coffee at all, but are willing to brew and sell it!. I(t should be a crime for Mormons to sell coffee!
I finally found an eatery in Prescot AZ that was run by gentiles where I could get breakfast and coffee to go. Like an oasis!.....Joe
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Post by DEKE on Apr 21, 2022 13:27:17 GMT
I going to borrow a line my daughter uses.
I like my coffee like I like my people.
I don't' like coffee.
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Post by Wyatt on Apr 21, 2022 17:55:39 GMT
You might like this. COWARDS DIE MANY TIMES BEFORE THEIR DEATH: In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar occur the line that is in the subject of this essay. The line is part of the speech of Caesar reply to Calpurnia's warning that he should not move out of doors as evil omens point to some danger to his life. Caesar refuses to be upset by the omens and declares that death has no terrors for him. He is no coward and so he ignores the dangers that threaten him. The word "fear" he says, does not exist in his vocabulary. He throws a challenge at death and refuses to be frightened by it. He could never have been a great solider if he had stood in fear of death Caesar rightly says that the brave people taste death only once. Caesar's attitude to death is, indeed, the right one. Death is a necessary and unavoidable end to life. Nobody has ever conquered death. Death comes to all kings and beggars, rich and poor, prince and their castles and humble folk in their huts. Death lays its icy hand upon all creatures without distinction. Knowing the supreme power of death; it is the height of folly for a man to tremble with fear at the thought of it. It shows an utter lack of spirit to turn pate at the mention of death. It is extreme cowardice to shrink from the dangers of life and mark of bravery to face them. A coward lives in constant dread. His heart sinks at the thought of death that is like a sword of Damocles hanging over his head. The outbreak of war, a riot, the tremors of an earth-quack, the possibility of a famine or a flood all these make the coward shudder with fear. He imagines that he will be the first casualty in any of these situations. He eyes his food with suspicion because there might be poison in it. If he stands on a sea-shore or a river-bank, a wave of fear sweeps over him at the idea of being accidentally drowned. As he walks along a road, he is over-careful not to step down the pavement lest he should be run over by a motor vehicle. He knows that death may come to a man suddenly and in a variety of ways and that someone else has died, secretly congratulates himself on his own escape. Such is the mental outlook of a coward. Surely he suffers a thousand times more pain and agony at his supposed death than he would by the event itself. He meets his death many times in his imagination and endures all the horrors connected with it. He even goes on to imagine the sufferings that are in store for him beyond the grave. He tries to foresee all the terrors of Hell. He is filled with self-pity at being the supposed victim of all the suffered its pangs many times over.
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Post by David! on Apr 21, 2022 18:14:38 GMT
Every Starbucks in the universe can unionize and it will barely affect me. I had it once. Like many others I found it burnt and expensive and I need dark roast coffee to survive and barely function. Hot, black, dark roast coffee has saved the lives of many of the people I have into contact with over the years.
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