Are you one of the few that has never had Starbucks coffee?

Are you one of the few that has never had Starbucks coffee?

  • I have never had Starbucks coffee or even been to one.

    Votes: 29 49.2%
  • I drink Starbucks all the time

    Votes: 8 13.6%
  • What a waste of electrons.

    Votes: 7 11.9%
  • Other

    Votes: 15 25.4%

  • Total voters
    59

Thebobo

Lifer
Jun 19, 2006
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As the title says are you one of the few that has never had Starbucks coffee? I am one of the few. Mostly home and work coffee with the occasional wherever I'm at except starbucks coffee.
 
Nov 8, 2012
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Rarely go on my own time - but when I'm traveling for work and have to get up at 4:30 for flights, it's often times one of just a few options at airports.
 

Paladin3

Diamond Member
Mar 5, 2004
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Nope. Never. But I don't drink coffee, so that's kinda cheating. When I was 12 my mother had a tall glass of strong, black ice coffee. I thought it was root beer and snuck a drink. Turned me off coffee for life.

Edit: or maybe my mother was a wicked genius and was teaching me to leave her root beer alone.
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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I have stomach issues so don't drink coffee in general, but I've had it a couple times just to check it out. It tastes good if you like sweets but I'd never pay $4/day for it. At any rate, you can't knock something you've never tried.
 

Fern

Elite Member
Sep 30, 2003
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Yo! I've never had Starbucks.

I have coffee/espresso machines at home and work, so I rarely buy coffee. I've bought coffee when traveling long distances on the interstate, but I buy it at gas stations.

Fern
 

RLGL

Platinum Member
Jan 8, 2013
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No starbucks, dunn bros or any of them. I do not drink the stuff.
 

BD231

Lifer
Feb 26, 2001
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Yea nah nah m8 that coffee's like stright up legal meth you gotta try it .... tasty smooth and if your desperate you can always steal someones laptop or wireless charging device for cash money.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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I like iced lattes. I do try to support my local shops of which we have plenty here, but none of them have large enough sizes like a venti at Starbucks, let alone the size one bigger.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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I'm a heavy coffee drinker, and I've had less starbucks than other heavy drinkers. Aside from numerous samples I've gotten at festivals, I could coumt the times I've been on two hands. If not for my daughter that loves starbucks, you could cut those times in half.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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Not "never," but so seldom it's ALMOST never. I don't like their burned tasting brew.
 

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
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it doesn't taste great but it's a reliable product and when you need caffeine, they are happy to give you 7 shots of espresso on ice via drive-through.
 

UnklSnappy

Senior member
Apr 13, 2004
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I've never been to a Starbucks, but I drink Starbucks Sumatran coffee all the time via pods for the Keurig.
 

Exterous

Super Moderator
Jun 20, 2006
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A group of coworkers makes a walking trip to a nearby starbucks about 2x a week so I go with them. I've won a few starbucks gift cards through work and conferences which has covered about 98% of my purchases so I don't really mind going there.
 

evident

Lifer
Apr 5, 2005
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starbucks is the best coffee you can get from a major chain when you're on the go. better than dunkin, wawa, sheets, 7-11, etc. i'll grab some if i'm on travel or somewhere and need coffee. otherwise i'll make my coffee at home
 

NoCreativity

Golden Member
Feb 28, 2008
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Not a coffee drinker but I did go to one about 15 years ago while on vacation with my parents for drinks and a snack. Don't plan to ever return to one either.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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I've only ever had Frapacinos which are great frozen drinks. I'm not a coffee drinker in general but I do like coffee flavored ice cream.
 

Arushi

Junior Member
May 15, 2018
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Starbucks is very costly and quality of food is not good as compared to Vango and others
 

Stopsignhank

Platinum Member
Mar 1, 2014
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I drink coffee everyday. I have had 3 cups of Starbucks coffee in my life. That is enough for me.
 

Scarpozzi

Lifer
Jun 13, 2000
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It's like this....my old job, we had a few coffee shops that were company-owned and a store that had a Starbucks machine...the machine had hoppers they filled with beans and it was plumbed with a water line... So it ground the beans and made individual cups of coffee. It received a decent amount of traffic so the coffee was always fresh. The machine was made in such a way that cleaning wasn't all that necessary. The coffee shops were run by minimum wage folks that often didn't clean/rinse the equipment properly and you could tell. When I bought coffee, I either hit that Starbucks machine or went to a local-run coffee shop...but the local shop typically had freshly roasted African coffee (cheaper beans roasted in town)....the Starbucks was sometimes more consistent....occasionally, the Sumatra stuff was funky tasting since coffee flavor has a lot to do with water supply in the region it grows.

Nowadays, there aren't a lot of coffee shops around here that aren't Starbucks. I've run into the same issue with the bagel shop near me....coffee equipment cleanliness isn't always up to standards and gas station coffee just isn't strong enough. I resorted to getting an electric kettle and a French press for my desk at work.....was about $50 for both, but they'll pay for themselves eventually....and I can brew whatever roasts I want.
 

Perknose

Forum Director & Omnipotent Overlord
Forum Director
Oct 9, 1999
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Yes! All the time! It so fits my lifestyle, since I'm one of those annoying persons who says things like, "It so fits my lifestyle." :p

There's a Starbucks in the middle of Doylestown, one of just about the only chain places of any kind there, thank Gawd. It's housed in a old, idiosyncratically laid out building. Down a short corridor from the serving/buying area is another room that features a number of deeply comfy, heavily padded chairs, complete with a fake, gas-fired fireplace. You can hang out there forever, should you wish, even if you're black!

$4 coffee is like $200 sneakers . . . a brilliant marketing move but not something I'm really drawn to, you know? But I do like their milkshake-like fruity-fruit concoctions, the name of which I forget (oh yeah, frappuccino!) that Hunter, my barrista (ok, that's a lie) hipped me to the fact that you can ask them to add extra "industrial" fruit syrup to them for free. -- ok, it was some nameless (to me) young girl behind the counter who told me that. She probably just wanted to get into my pants . . . not me, just, literally, my pants! :cool:

Anyway, yesterday I went there for my daily half caf triple foam soy latte with free range cinnamon and the place was closed! I was . . . inconvenienced! Thanks, Obama!

Not only that but there were several . . . negroes . . . inside. Everything I hold dear is being stripped from my life. Where will I find a safe place of ease and condescension now? Trump was supposed to fix all this! :eek:
 

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
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Hm, probably fewer than ten times.
I'm a regular coffee drinker, I usually start my days with a cup or two of espresso at home.