George Shirley wrote:

> I hate to one-up you folks but I can uncategorically state that I have
> never, ever been in a Starbucks nor do I ever intend to go into one. I
> only drink Louisiana's national coffee, Community, and only the dark
> roast variety with no other additives, no sugar, no milk, no froth, none
> of the frou-frou that goes with "coffee" today. So there! Hah!


Hear, hear, George! I have not bought a Starbuck's product since the early
90's, I was going to visit a friend in St. Louis and for a gift I went down
to the the Loop and bought some of their stuff from the very first
Starbuck's to open up in Chicago...Starbuck's was this new "exotic" thing.
Hard to believe now, they are thick on the ground, and I take some
schadenfreude in their recent troubles. They ran off a coupla very nice
locally owned coffee places in my neighborhood...

I have a local coffee place on the corner, their prices are half of Starsux
and they have that old friendly 70's counterculture vibe...

I like my coffee with chicory, "Lousiana - style"...


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Best
Greg

"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
people's money."~~~~Margaret Thatcher