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[–] 46 points 4 months ago (7 children)

premium experience

I don't think I've ever had coffee from Starbucks that didn't taste cheaper than the grocery store coffee I buy for home. It has always tasted burned and too heavy for a light roast. Genuinely the shittiest coffee I could get outside of a 7-11 at a cafe that seems engineered to make me not treat it like a cafe.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    yeah it tastes like fuckin charcoal, idk if they just roast it way darker than it says or if it's actually burnt somehow

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yes they literally just burn the beans to absolute shit to "standardize the consistency" across all locations and over time.

    Also, I presume, to aid in upselling people on syrup and heavy cream filled versions that hide the taste of their terrible, terrible coffee.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago

    Yeah this isn’t, $9 a cup for a rare single origin grown on some remote island and brewed using a fussy, labor intensive process. This is $9 for Dunkin Donuts with a bougie veneer.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Got coffee at a random gas station a year ago for two or three dollars and I was shocked at how good it was. Pretty sure it was Rwandan. I only buy coffee bean(i)s, grind them, and use a bialetti at home. Fancy cafés rarely impress me but this random gas station blew every starbucks I’ve ever been to completely out of the water.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    These days Starbucks has a lot of different drinks and even regional variation, so it’s not that true anymore that they only sell this one kind of dark roast. But it’s still very overpriced

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