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I'm a coffee purest, I don't like flavorings, sugar, or creamer in my coffee. so if the coffee tastes like burnt S**t without the extras added, it's not good coffee in my book.
I'm not slamming anyone who likes the additives; feel free to enjoy them. I just like coffee for the taste of coffee.
Starbucks is definitely on my ban list.
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Concur. Starbucks coffee tastes like engine oil. A friend of my ex-wife who used to buy coffee for Dunkin' Donuts would run into the Starbucks buyers fairly regularly: according to her, they'd go out of their way to find the cheapest, shittiest beans they could. In the same way that Lady Gaga has nothing to do with music and everything to do with Lady Gaga, Starbucks has nothing to do with coffee and everything to do with Starbucks. The mystery is why it isn't all over yet. But (as evidenced by Lady Gaga) people do have dreadful taste...
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I don't know about Starsucks in the US or Canada or Australia... My experience with it, in Mexico City and surrounding cities, has been very positive.
When I go, I usually ask for either black coffee (or "Today's coffee or Daily coffee" or whatever they call it now) or black tea (English breakfast blend, usually). They charge me MXN$35 (pesos), which at today's exchange rate is a few cents under USD$2, and I get more than half litre of coffee or tea (100ml for 33 USD cents). While it might not be the cheapest, it has very good quality. The brews usually come from local states Veracruz and Chiapas, each producing very good quality of coffee, or Colombia, which is the greates brew I have tasted so far. Ocasionally they have coffee from Guatemala (which is Chiapas-like) or African countries, which IMO is good, yet not great.
Being in a coffee exporter country, it is very easy to find places with very good quality brews. You can get SB-quality coffee for as low as 25 USD cents per 100 ml. However, SB provides additional services, such as free WiFi and nice, cozy desks where to work. Given that, those extra 8 USD cents are well worth it.
Now, if you go for Italian-like coffee brews (cappuccino, latte, machiatto or mochaccino) then the prices escalate to MXN$55 and if you add extras (vanilla syrup, chocochips, mousse and such) your account can increase up to MXN$70. That is expensive, compared to what you can get elsewhere (cappuccinos for MXN$40 for example), and the beverage quality decreases (IMO) because the coffee taste gets diluted with all the additional sugar and milk.
So, all in all, I'd say I have had a good experience with Starbucks. Good quality, good prices for black coffee (which is what I usually drink anyway, coffee with steamming water and nothing more) or black tea, and a nice place to work or just hang out.
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I once made the mistake? of bringing a 4lb sack of ground coffee back from Columbia. It took me an age to get it through British Customs. They had sniffer dogs inspecting it before they finally let me through.
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Bad experience indeed, I hear you. I once made the mistake to land in Paris with unlabeled sodium bicarbonate and cajeta (some sort of toasted milk candy) that I had brought as a gift to a friend. It took me like two hours to convince them that the white powder was not cocaine (of course, they didn't take my word for it, they had it tested), that the cajeta was a candy (they did try it and tested it also, therefore ruining my gift), and that I was not a drug dealer. 
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I'm pretty sure Tim Hortons put crack in their coffee because it's disgusting but once I've had a cup I need another one.
It's very wrong.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hopefully this one isn't too difficult. Had to put it together this morning, good luck!
_ψ.ψ…° (6)
Winner: PompeyThree
Answer: DESERT
modified 23-Feb-16 4:49am.
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Correct! That was a quickie. You're up for tomorrow.
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That was a good one!
I might even have got it, if he hadn't! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Defending again I hear with respect ? (9)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
modified 23-Feb-16 4:10am.
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Reverence -> respect
fence hear vence ??
again re??
with ??
I really haven't a good clue how I could make this fit!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Nope
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well, that figured! Still without a clue ... 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Glad it's not just me...I had REVERING, but I can't get VERING to work with DEFENDING no matter how badly I pronounced it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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pkfox wrote: I hear
With your hearing I suppose you're up again tomorrow!
Life is too shor
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Regarding?
Re (again) Guarding (defended)
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Damn. I think you got it...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well done - you are up tomorrow
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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It was actually "defending again I here" which equates to "reguarding" but never mind you got it anyway
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Count Armand, with his fancy wine and his frufru accent. Nobody leaves my tequila worm dangling in the wind...
Which movie?
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Sounds like Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981) - IMDb[^] with Gay Hamilton - sorry, GEORGE Hamilton - as a Zorro dressed in pink. Definitely one of the worst movies I will ever admit to having seen (and that only very reluctantly)!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 23-Feb-16 3:00am.
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Parîs est FruFru avec Armand
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Inspector Clouseau: Catos Revenge
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