Gregory Morrow wrote:
> 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"...
>
>
Not me, no chicory. It ain't Louisiana style, it's poor folks surviving
the War of Northern Aggression style. It was either chicory or roasted
ground up acorns to make "coffee" back then. Same thing came about
during the great depression according to my FIL. He always liked white
label Luzianne coffee because it had chicory in it, I thought it tasted
terrible myself.

Community dark roast reminds me of the coffee we used to drink in
sidewalk cafes in France but not as good as good Turkish coffee.