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Many recent studies found coffee is healthy as fuck:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/11/431036/coffee-safe-for-a-fib
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/coffee-may-improve-gut-health/
Some folks think it means Starbucks is good. NOPE.
Starbucks isn't coffee. It's actually trash:
Real coffee is this:
Also:
Tea is also great and healthy. Tea is not addictive.
If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.
Erm, not that I'm a fan of Starbucks at all but they absolutely have decent real coffe that has zero sugar in it. Several blends in fact.
Starbucks uses local imports. The biggest problem is that they burn the shit out of the beans to normalize it down to the same flavor. So, the big appeal of using locally-sourced beans is wiped away by the way the need for a consistent "flavor".
That's why Starbucks coffee tastes like shit.
The pike roast is the only one that is halfway decent in a pinch. It’s their “light” roast.
ah, i didn't know it had a name. I always go light or medium, just enough oat milk to change the color, and i'm happy enough at Sbux
Yeah, it's not the worst, but it's still shit compared to any other light roast. It's good for Starbucks, but that's a low bar. They often don't even have it available (or at least they often didn't, but I never went often, and I haven't been to one in many years).
Local beans? Does it mean they don't sell coffee in Canada and Europe?
They have blonde roasts.
Wtf are you on about?
I personally love a good French roast.
You sound like my stupid cunt of a mom that does coffee enemas. Bitching about the flavor of coffee when her colon doesn't even have taste buds. Wtf.
No, even their regular coffee is awful.
McDonalds coffee is better than Starbuck's, and it's $1.
McDonald's coffee?
Bro how much crack you smoking?
They do not have decent coffee.
They certainly have non sugary drinks, whether they're decent is another question.
yeah, they're better than the coffee that's been sitting all week in the urn in the outreach hall whatever the name is i forget at the church i play music at. that shit's nasty but free coffee's free coffee
It always has a burnt aftertaste IMO.
That's because they burn it. It's a branding thing. Massive companies demand uniformity in flavor. McDonald's puts huge amounts of effort into making sure that a big mac in Maine tastes exactly the same as a big mac in LA.
Coffee beans are unpredictable, though. Beans from the same farm from the same crop can taste different month to month. So to make it uniform they overroast (burn) the beans.
this is also why in-n-out expanded very slowly for a while. it's about making sure your supply chain can handle the growth and you can train the employees to keep the culture of the chain.
when they expanded too fast, their burgers got soggy. they haven't fixed that.
It also helps keep some of the coffee flavor when you put in a quart of milk and sugar and flavoring.
It keeps some of the coffee flavor if you think coffee flavor means burned. It doesn't though. Good coffee has fruity or flowery notes. None of that remains with Starbucks coffee.
Eew. No.
Amazing. Never thought of this explanation but it makes sense.
And added caffeine to make it more addictive. And union busting.
I love how a lot of people can be anti-drug while downing three cups of coffee a day. I don't judge them for that. They can do it if they want. They should be aware that they have an addiction though, and they shouldn't be deciding what other people can choose to do.
It's ok coffee. It's like Chikfila - in 1998, when your mall got its first Starbucks, it was head and shoulders above the other options, which were 7/11 and IHOP. However, now that chicken sandwiches are taken seriously, basically everyone who tries beats whatever soggy shit CFA has on offer.
That is absolutely coffee, but iwhether its decent is subjective. Both times I went to starbucks it wasn't much better than gasstation coffee.
I should have qualified - decent as in quality in comparison to the other fast food options. 😄
McDonalds coffee is way better, and it's $1.
I will never again have Starbucks (and haven't since about 2010 - its just that bad).