Mosquito Coast anyone?

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 08 May, 2006 12:18 pm

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industrie ... ella_x.htm

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Tue 09 May, 2006 3:27 pm

It's a plot to take over the world I tell you

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Tue 09 May, 2006 3:40 pm

Once Starbucks at a time....

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Tue 09 May, 2006 3:53 pm

Whats starbucks?

Denrel · Post by **Denrel** » Wed 10 May, 2006 4:45 am

http://www.starbucks.com.au/en-AU/

the coffee shop equivalent to mcdonalds, US based, multi national.

Nyssah · Post by **Nyssah** » Wed 10 May, 2006 10:36 am

and they make the worst coffee ive ever tasted in my life...
completely beyond me how they are so successful

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Wed 10 May, 2006 11:27 am

Agree Nyssah. Theres a Starbucks in mmy local shopping area about 6 blocks from my house. Went in there once and never again. I don't really know how they are so successful with such bad coffee.

Noggle · Post by **Noggle** » Wed 10 May, 2006 12:19 pm

As far as success in AU I couldn't tell you. In America, the reason they are successful is their clientele. Americans, as you know, for the most part, are stupid. So, they hear from the media (news mainly) or some friend, that Starbucks makes good coffee. They go there, hate the coffee, but want everyone to -think- they like the coffee so that they won't be viewed as an outcast because the coffee shop is successful. Basically a twisted thought process of "they're successful in Seattle, so the coffee must be good, therefore there is something wrong with me for not liking it, but hell if I'll admit that to other people! I will continue saying I like Starbucks and jazz music because everyone thinks I -should-"

Yes, I am ashamed to live in the same country as these people, but c'est la vie.

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Wed 10 May, 2006 12:51 pm

Startbucks coffee is shit. I would rather drink Draino

Ephyr · Post by **Ephyr** » Wed 10 May, 2006 1:05 pm

I like Starbucks coffee...the rest of you can go get fucked! don't buy it if you don't like it...

-Ephyr and bots

Melodionxxx · Post by **Melodionxxx** » Wed 10 May, 2006 1:13 pm

Drink Starbucks or get fucked....

Caught between a Mocha and a hard place!

MeloxXx

Angelsheart · Post by **Angelsheart** » Wed 10 May, 2006 1:19 pm

taste all the same to me~
i prefer the small shops like the ones in the cities the size of a car space

Kofn · Post by **Kofn** » Wed 10 May, 2006 1:24 pm

I just don't understand coffee, from Starbucks or anywhere else... it's all blech

Micahle · Post by **Micahle** » Wed 10 May, 2006 1:33 pm

coffee is an acquired taste. Except if it's from Starbucks, i don't think i'd ever get used to that no matter how much i drank.

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Wed 10 May, 2006 1:45 pm

If you drink Starbuck's coffee and like it you must be one of those people with a strange Genetic taste abnormality

Sorry Ephyr but it really does taste like shit.

Once you have drunk fresh roasted Arabica for a few months the rest of it really tastes pretty bad. Anything containing Robusta which is the majority of all instant coffee's is also bad.

The machine used to make it is also important. To hot water fries the ground. A double boiler is best one boiler for steaming milk the other for the ground.

Anyways most actual coffee shops in Melbourne have a decent cup. Its hard to find well priced good coffee in Perth.

Noggle · Post by **Noggle** » Wed 10 May, 2006 1:56 pm

/off to get fucked ...

Not a hard decision for me, even if the coffee was good ...

Temvardar · Post by **Temvardar** » Wed 10 May, 2006 2:03 pm

Hmm I think Starbucks is so successful because it's run by Dr Evil/Number two

I used to get a coffee from a place in Toowong, was fkn awesome coffee, then the guy who made/owned the place sold out and left.... So go to get my coffee and this new guys there and beside him.... is a couple of people from the Coffee Acadamy.... teaching him how to use the machine.... yeah that inspired confidence.... coffee turned to shit now I just buy an Ice Break every morning

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Wed 10 May, 2006 2:52 pm

http://www.coffee.com.au

Not sure where his queensland shops are but the guy that runs this coffee roastery is a great guy and his coffee rocks.

Nice American Guy called Dan Fitsimons (duno if thats spelt right) he used to sell Texas Instruments gear once upon a time before he and his wife started their coffee chain / roastery.

"Life is too short to drink bad coffee"

Ephyr · Post by **Ephyr** » Wed 10 May, 2006 3:03 pm

life is too short to debate preferrence for coffee chains on a website dedicated to discussing a game based in an imaginary world while we sit at work pretending to work, while we read said website, and post on said website, and wish we were at home playing the game in that imaginary world...

-Ephyr and bots

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Wed 10 May, 2006 3:20 pm

/nods at Eph, uh huh.

I must be doing something wrong, I am too busy at work now to post anymore

Either way all coffee and tea tastes like crap and you are all doomed to go to hell for drinking it (lets see if I can stir the religous up as well as the coffee drinkers).

Off to go find that fuck

Hiroki · Post by **Hiroki** » Tue 16 May, 2006 2:02 am

Mazia Says:

Anything containing Robusta which is the majority of all instant coffee's is also bad.

International Roast FTW..... BLEH!

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Tue 16 May, 2006 10:12 am

Actually, Maz is partially right with the Arabica/Robusta story. However, 99.999999% of all coffee blends claiming to be Arabica will have some Robusta beans in it.

One day, go to a place that does a coffee tasting and teaching thing. My boss sent me to the one run by Lavazza here in Sydney as I was proving to be a bit of an expert on coffee which I was selling at the time.

Anyway the first of the basics I got taught was what a pure Robusta tastes like and what a pure Arabica tastes like and then, what the different blenders do to create the best. Pure Arabica has a sort of 'flat' taste, it really does need a couple of robusta beans thrown into it. Even Blue Mountains coffee blends a little Robusta into the mix.

To compare a pure Arabica to an Arabica/Robusta blend would be like comparing a freshly mixed scotch and dry with one thats been sitting for about 15 minutes - the 'zing' just isn't there.

Melodionxxx · Post by **Melodionxxx** » Tue 16 May, 2006 11:06 am

Best coffee I ever tasted was in Bali. They make it so smooth dark and creamy its a joy. And its creamy without any kind of milk in it... Go figure, I for sure never could. But its just stunning, must be something in the way they make it.

I also love the way you get coffee in the Middle East, tiny little bolts of black wakeup juice.

MeloxXx

Aamasie · Post by **Aamasie** » Tue 16 May, 2006 11:15 am

/smacks Melo

You made that coffee sound soooo good, how am I going to face my usual coffee tomorrow morning?

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Tue 16 May, 2006 5:40 pm

fresh roasted Arabica has a rich crema which is very nice and creamy. Good coffee is a delight.

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