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"Rhonda Anderson" > wrote in message
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> (Phred) wrote in
> :
>
>> Dunno how you blokes find those joints over there; but here in Oz
>> everyone I've met who has been in one reckons they probably wouldn't
>> have gone broke here if they had sold even half-decent coffee. No one
>> seemed to think the mass closure of the local stores was any loss to
>> society. [But please note: I've never been in a Starbucks and my
>> "everyone" is not a lot, so YMMV. :-) ]
>>
>> Cheers, Phred.
>>
>
> I don't drink coffee so can't comment on that. I used to pop into
> Starbucks
> in Penrith occasionally for a hot chocolate, or a "blended cream" which
> was
> an icy milk drink.
>
> It was mainly in the evening, if I had to wait 30 or 40 minutes for the
> bus
> after getting off the train - it was open until late, and the only other
> things open were a couple of restaurants, and it was warm in there in
> winter. The hot chocolate wasn't the best I've ever had but it was
> pleasant
> enough. I would say I never saw it empty, there were always people in
> there.

It's $4 a cup where I live and we simply wont pay it. It's not that good a
coffee. For $4 I can buy a lb of ground coffee and drink myself in to a
caffeine frenzy.

>
> --
> Rhonda Anderson
> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia