Have you been to a Starbucks recently?

[jpgray]

Tall, grande and venti?! I thought I was going to die laughing. What silly marketing execs have they hired who told them this was a good idea?

edit: Also Starbucks coffee, drinks and beans alike, are vastly inferior to what you can make at home for about 1% of the price. ;-)

[donco6]

1. GAWD, you've been away awhile!

I still refuse to say "venti".

[jpgray]

2. Yeah, don't frequent the Starbucks myself

I guess 'venti' is supposed to mean 'twenty' ounces? Considering nothing about Starbucks is even remotely Italian, especially the gargantuan lattes, it's pretty damn funny. :)

[donco6]

3. I honestly had no idea what it meant.

And I purposely didn't look it up, because I assumed they had used it in an incorrect way, anyway. It's so typically American to bastardize another language this way.

And yeah? What's Italian about Starbucks anyway? (scratching head, wondering why I hadn't even thought of that . . . )

[jmowreader]

5. It's supposed to be like the little coffeehouses in Italy

At least that's what someone who works in Starbucks' corporate office tells me.

Apparently the person who started Starbucks went on a tour of Italy, fell in love with the coffeehouses there and returned to the US to create his own Italian coffeehouse.

Naturally, the classic Italian coffeehouse is part of a massive nationwide chain that serves mediocre coffee in foam cups to people willing to pay three dollars for one cup of joe. Uhh...isn't that about what a whole pound of beans costs?

[SOteric]

13. It means twenty. It's a twenty ounce drink.

[DS1]

18. QVNFL

tasty

[Gman]

4. Heh! I do too!

[donco6]

9. A fellow contrarian!

To another who refuses to be sucked into the maw of godless, incoherent advertising!

:toast:

[RoadRunner]

6. Only in America is tall = small.

go figure.

[seaglass]

7. The last time I was there I got the Guide to Starbucks

Beverages just for entertainment value. So now I know how to place my order;-)

1. Cup
2. Shots and Size
3. Syrup
4. Milk and other modifiers
5. the drink itself

It took me 2 years to change from "the largest coffee you have" to venti (saved 4 words anyways)

The only coffee choice I have around here other than my own is Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks. I detest DD. I love Starbucks. I am especially addicted to the venti toffee nut latte which I only get once a week because it's $4 a pop.

[pansypoo53219]

8. darn tootin

i will never go into a starbucks. i have only been in locally owned coffee places if at all. i make a damned good cup o joe. preferably columbian. but the gevalia is good too.
actu;;y my cat belongs to gevalia right now. but she will be moving soon and my kitten will join.
my cat gets the best junk mail. today she got a postage paid card to get a sex toys etc catalogue. not sure if she needs a dildo.

[KCDem]

17. lol about the cats

One of ours is listed in the Houston phone directory. If people call for Mephisto, we know we prolly don't want to talk to them.

I would make some bad joke about your cat (using a different term) needing a dildo, but it might get deleted. :evilgrin:

[scarlet_owl]

10. I think I'm the only person in America to never have

been to Starbucks. I think there might be one on campus, but I don't go around there while students are in town.

[freeforall]

11. I avoid them as much as possible...

because they're too expensive (I drink tea) and I can't stand their damn yuppie pretentious language.

[populistmom]

12. Married to a Starbucks junky

His drink of choice: triple (shots of expresso that is) Grande latte with 5 sugars in the raw and NO foam.

I personally think they're a bit overrated. I can make better coffee at home until my press broke anyway. Still haven't gotten around to getting a new one. :(

[SheilaT]

14. Instant coffee

(what I make at home) is far better than Starbucks. Maxwell House instant, at least.

And all you coffee snobs, don't bother to flame me. I simply like MH, have no appreciation of what's supposed to be finer coffee.

[Catshrink]

15. Hey -- my barrista knows my name and what I drink

what more can I ask? I'm not a morning person... so I drag into the Starbucks in the morning, set my Simpson's coffee mug on the counter. Penny says her cheerful Hello! and my day starts getting better.

Overpriced? Absolutely. But I need my Americano in the morning -- and the cheerful hello from Penny.

[mdmc]

16. I bought alot of Doonesbury stuff at 'bucks

and drinks too...