/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19529599]

I've never drank this. Am I missing out?
Their size naming sounds stupid for a Spanish speaker.

[Anonymous No.19529678]

it's a coffee shop
bit pricey compared to other chains but mostly on par with local places
their actual coffee is pretty mid but they do nice mixed drinks
all their bakery stuff is pre-made and just heated in store, but it's just cooled and not frozen so ehh
pretty consistent across stores and their points system isn't the worst which is something
I normally get a café mocha, no whip - iced in Summer nd hot in Winter, and the only food item I normally get is the egg white / spinach wrap

[Anonymous No.19529687]

>>19529599
>a witch as a logo
you're retarded if you drink this demonic garbage

[Anonymous No.19529712]

>>19529678
The ham and Swiss croissant is super good, I'll usually have one with my iced peppermint latte

[Anonymous No.19529718]

>>19529599
>Am I missing out?
Only if you enjoy burnt coffee.

>Their size naming sounds stupid for a Spanish speaker
Their size naming sounds stupid to everyone.

[Anonymous No.19529811]

I actually do enjoy their espresso drinks and blended stuff, but the last time I went for a frappuccino it was like 7-8 bucks, and I haven’t been back in a while because I feel stupid paying more for a cup of coffee than I do for a lot of my meals

[Anonymous No.19529836]

>>19529599
I used to live near one of those places and the stench of coffee in the morning when by always made my stomach wretch, so imo you're not missing out on anything unless you enjoy standing in line which is what I always used to see in the morning, morning standing in line for their dose of coffee.

[Anonymous No.19529849]

I suspect that morons enjoy standing in line for that shit to be seen and carry around stupid logo cups.

[Anonymous No.19529859]

>>19529687
its a mermaid you dumb nigger, or did you not realize that the entire name and branding is nautical, coming from the book Moby Dick?

[Anonymous No.19529862]

>complaining about standing in line
bro do you not have five minutes to just zone out in the morning? it's not a big deal

[Anonymous No.19529875]

>>19529859
Kira Kosarin does a mermaid pretty nicely.

[Anonymous No.19529933]

>>19529859
it's literally a witch spreading her legs

[Anonymous No.19529976]

>>19529933
Your mom shouldn't have spread her legs

[Anonymous No.19529992]

>>19529933
She's a siren, are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.19530026]

I always thought it was some play on that fighter pilot in that old campy show way back when Battlestar Galactica fighting the robots. In 58 years I have never heard it used except in that old TV show.

[Anonymous No.19530075]

>>19530026
Those were cylons and imo the original battlestar galactica show blew the shit out of the remake with it's retard moving camera angles and background noise.

[Anonymous No.19530088]

>>19529599
It's okay but everything costs too much. You aren't missing anything.

[Anonymous No.19530099]

>>19529992
>She's a siren, are you retarded?
This is the actual answer. Their corporate policy book refers to the logo as a Siren.
Source: I worked there

[Anonymous No.19530105]

>>19529599
It's nothing special.
Also, don't get any of those small, Starbucks brand bottled drinks (because they're fucking rubbish).

[Anonymous No.19530128]

Riiight... great logo. A siren that sings her song to tempt and lure sailors and people in so they can kill them. Just like the poisonous liquid they excrete from their "restaurants"

[Anonymous No.19530167]

>>19529859
Satanic book

[Anonymous No.19530277]

>>19529599
Their sizes make more sense when you can see all of them.
Originally, they had short and tall, and the 16 oz "grande" was like their extra large. Venti and trenta are just numbers of ounces.

[Anonymous No.19530413]

>>19529599
>I've never drank this. Am I missing out?
On about a zillion calories, yes.
>>19529718
>burnt coffee
Meh. I found that they didn't burn the filter coffee if you bought at peak times. A lot of coffee shops burn the coffee in quiet times.
I don't usually like espresso-based drinks so much.

[Anonymous No.19530762]

>>19530413
Not at all what he meant tardo.

[Anonymous No.19531948]

>>19529859
What do you think mermaids are if not demonic?

[Anonymous No.19531956]

>>19529599
There are many copycat recipes that are cheaper to make.

[Anonymous No.19532214]

>>19529599
there's a reason they went bankrupt in most countries
they only really exist in the US and Japan because they dont have coffee culture of their own

[Anonymous No.19532294]

>>19532214
They failed in Australia because there's a surprisingly strong coffee culture here.
Oddly though they persist in New Zealand. Come to think of it NZ has a fair bit of USA slop - Carl's Jr, Wendy's, Starbucks. NZ also has direct-to-consumer prescription medication advertising.

[Anonymous No.19533187]

>>19529712
I really hope you're joking. I dated a girl for a few years who worked at Starbucks on and off, and they have a policy where all the food has to be thrown out the moment it hits the "best by" date, even if it's perfectly fine. So she would bring home stuff constantly and literally everything on their menu is terrible. Even she would feed most of them to the dog in the morning when she was feeling lazy.
>>19530075
I loved the remake, but it's aged much worse than the original. I wish Caprica wasn't cancelled. They should do a big budget HBO Caprica mini-series. That would be awesome.

[Anonymous No.19533244]

>>19532294
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BETmptZVzQE

[Anonymous No.19533298]

>>19529599
I’ve been to starcucks fewer than 10 times. Every time my wife is with me and all I get are those cupcake balls on a stick.

[Anonymous No.19533312]

>>19532294
thank you for the flat white, the best coffeehouse beverage

[Anonymous No.19533332]

>>19533187
I like the ham and Swiss croissant like I said. Suck my dick biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch

[Anonymous No.19533356]

>>19530277
what is the de i for, like what would you order that requires such a small size

[Anonymous No.19533360]

>>19533298
the egg white breakfast bite things are pretty good

[Anonymous No.19533404]

>>19529599
It's stupidly overpriced.
A 16 fl. oz (Grande) Chai Tea Latte costs $5.00, before tax or tips.
That's 16 oz. of the actual beverage.
For reference, I have a teapot, which cost me $100 on Amazon, which holds 38 fl. oz of tea. I get 195mL of the milk-creamer solution in a separate creamer cup, which adds 6.6 oz. to my tea, so 44.6 fl. oz total.
I spend $0.60 on each pot's tea bags, $0.25 on milk, $0.2 on sugar, and $0.45 on creamer, so $1.50.
Getting the same amount from Starbucks would run me $15.
I'm pretty sure the stupid naming conventions are there to hide just how fucking gypped you are.

[Anonymous No.19533414]

>>19529599
after they close. dive in their dumpsters and get all their snack cakes, and sandwhiches, for free.
sometimes they're bagged up already. pretty much same day fresh.

[Anonymous No.19534969]

>>19533404
>if I make something myself it's cheaper than buying it as a luxury
wow bro you cracked the code you're basically Sheldon from Big Bang Theory

[Anonymous No.19534982]

>>19534969
Shut up. Something like 2.5x or 3x would be luxury price. Having to get up and go out to pay 10x as much is dumb, and Starbucks deserves to go out of business.

[Anonymous No.19534987]

>>19529859
Moby Dick doesn't have mermaids dipshit

[Anonymous No.19534999]

>>19534987
>m'uh dick

[Anonymous No.19535020]

I worked at Starbucks for several years. Their regular drip coffee is worse than gas station coffee but their espresso drinks are mostly pretty good, frappuccinos are pretty tasty but are as bad as or worse than milkshakes in terms of lardass drinks, their iced tea is okay, some of the food is pretty good. I've never gone into one a single time since I quit because I'm not paying six dollars for a fucking coffee or $5-8 for a prepackaged sandwich, especially after years working there and getting so much of it for free. Their food waste is astronomical, I very rarely had to spend money on food when I worked there because our managers didn't give a shit and let us take home all the "expired" shit that was still perfectly good for like up to a week afterward. Some days I literally took home dozens of those breakfast sandwiches they sell for five bucks because there were literally like 50-60 of them that were all getting thrown away, I'd just stuff my backpack full of them and be set for food for the rest of the week. If I was lucky we'd also be throwing out a bunch of the paninis that they sell for like eight bucks each, sometimes I'd get ten or more of those, almost always at least one or two though

[Anonymous No.19535081]

>>19529599
I've only ever gotten the regular drip coffee from there - it tasted burnt and wasn't anything special, and was very pricey at the same time. For the same price, I can get coffee from a local gourmet coffee shop that actually has really good coffee.

[Anonymous No.19535100]

>>19529599
anytime I go in a starbucks everyone is loitering around inside.

their drink menu system is too complicated to understand.

anytime i overhear someone ordering a drink it sounds like gibberish and mumbo jumbo to me.

their drink size names are pretentious and unnecessary.

all of their 'food' is frozen and all of the items they sell are generally overpriced.

there would never be a reason for me to go there unless they were giving something for free.

the women that work there have blue and pink hair

i'd rather get a hot colombian coffee from the gas station and even that is kind of high priced.

[Anonymous No.19535260]

>>19529849
Are you from a third world country or the year 1999 that you think only hipsters drink Starbucks?

[Anonymous No.19535279]

>>19533356
Two shots of espresso is about 3 oz.

[Anonymous No.19535405]

>>19533356
Straight espresso usually

[Anonymous No.19535409]

>>19529599
It's fine.

[Anonymous No.19535415]

>>19535100
snobs used to be the ones going into starbucks. now clearly the snobs are the ones who refuse to go

[Anonymous No.19535455]

>>19535415
guess i'm a snob then. i would also never find a reason to go into a jamba juice.

[Anonymous No.19535540]

>>19529599
i don't get anything from this place other than black coffee. it's meh. tastes burnt. dunkin donuts has the superior coffee. dutch brothers is ok, but the "tip it or skip it" bullshit turned me away.

[Anonymous No.19535584]

>>19529599
It's gross OP just go to a normal coffee shop.

[Anonymous No.19535610]

>>19530099
>working for a company just to figure out what their mascot is instead of simply googling it

[Anonymous No.19535681]

>>19535415
I refuse to go because it's too expensive, that's the opposite of snobbery

[Anonymous No.19536198]

>>19532294
>Oddly though they persist in New Zealand.
they dont do very well though
again, many more locally owned coffee places that do better coffee, so only american and chink tourists go to starbucks

[Anonymous No.19537653]

>>19529687
you're not supposed to take the Harry Potter bullshit seriously

[Anonymous No.19537759]

>>19529599
Its good but overpriced for what it is. You can make similar quality drinks at home for much cheaper

[Anonymous No.19537783]

It sucks, support local cafes instead