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- Go to Starbucks in France - A Tragic Double-Whammy!!!
...and it's completely UNlike...
...that mass-marketed crapola eeeeeeevullll corporations sell to us.
posted by
BrWiSk
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January 21, 2004
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D. The horse bolted years ago - McDonald's has been in France for decades
But I agree with Brent that people should try real coffee once in a while to remind themselves what it is like.
posted by
beachbelle
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January 21, 2004
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"Star bollocks," I say...
...in deference to my British friends here on the BN.
Just got back from Colombia, as many know. Now THERE'S a country that can do coffee. I bought a pack of the real thing (100% Colombian coffee) at the airport, of all places, on my way back to the U.S. Cartainly it wasn't even Colombian's finest (probably a mass producer), but I broke it out this past weekend with the lady, and, man...it blew Dunkin' Donuts straight out of the fucking water. And Dunks blows Starbucks out of the water on a bad day for Dunks.
So there you have it: Real f'n coffee ain't from the chains, baby. Wake the f up and smell the REAL coffee, world inhabitants, before it's too late and they've genetically engineered the inferior Starbuck's strain to infect all indigenous crops worldwide, thus hastening the end of coffee as we know it, for good.
posted by
BrWiSk
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January 21, 2004
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Cheers...
...Ekildog!
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
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January 19, 2004
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OH one more thing
a site for your fancy...
http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/
posted by
Ekildog
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January 18, 2004
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Damon
Its interesting to note that Starbucks is a strange animal on the American market...
Starbucks has a long-standing dispute for some reason with Disney (another huge conglomerate corporation) and a coupel other companies; also... the American military is highly wary of Starbucks and their methodologies...
-Ek
posted by
Ekildog
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January 18, 2004
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starbucks/cultural homogenization is just another wart of the main disease
hear the bible belt twang too: its just the love of money as they say in the good book
the more i watch the more it seems the love of money is the root of all evil. ISO 9000 that great fuckheap of standardization smuggled in under the title of "quality control" says: if processes are made repeatable the byproducts are quality and efficiency.
incent gets on his pulpit of his indignation and thunders: You @#$@!#$@#$!@#$ (have run out of swears) QUALITY CANNOT BE CONTROLLED
posted by
sunfever
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January 17, 2004
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I am not a fan of chains
but I have stock in Starbucks. If they think they can sell coffee in that market then go for it, at this point success is in the hands of the french people.
posted by
lammieboy
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January 16, 2004
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Shawn...
...dreaming is good, man! Shamanically (and metamorphically) the more people dream a fairer, more equitable, less greed-driven world, the faster that world will come into being.
Drwam on, and dream harder!!
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
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January 16, 2004
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Jemmie...
...that's EXACTLY what happens!! Everywhere! All the time! It's not a shame, or a pity, or sad, or bad fuckin' luck. It's deliberate policy. Make no mistake about that.
If this homogenising globalising juggernaut is not stopped in its tracks or steered onto an altogether more sustainable course pretty damn quick, we are in for one shit time.
I kid ye not.
D x
posted by
DamonLeigh
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January 16, 2004
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Starbucks Should Be Shot...Or Something
I hate Starbucks. Will not go into any of their stores. Boycotting them. They put my favorite mom-and-pop coffee shop out of business.
posted by
Jemmie211
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January 16, 2004
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Starbucks is the Wal-Mart of coffee, Damon. So it should come as no surprise to anyone that, like Wal-Mart, the cancer that is Starbucks would spread.
I dream of the day when I open the news and read how both companies have closed their doors forever, how stores are burned and gutted, how local economies are recovering because people finally woke the fuck up and realized just how nasty and pernicious both are.
I can dream...
Shawn
posted by
ShawnMichel
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January 16, 2004
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