Luckily I’m a true coffee drinker and have not fallen under Starbucks’ spell. They say they offer a unique niche in the market, a niche for quality exotic coffee. Once upon a time I enjoyed Starbucks but not because their coffee is so great, I enjoyed the “venti white chocolate mocha” I learned the Starbucks lingo just to order it, but I liked it because I like milk. I drink cold white milk with absolutely no objection, a great thing for me because the number one reason women suffer from osteoporosis is due to a lack in calcium intake. But really that’s what their coffee taste like. It tastes like coffee flavored milk. It’s not good coffee. It’s weak and you need to add a ton of sugar for it to taste good. Now I’m not saying that Starbucks doesn’t offer good stuff, I’m just saying their coffee isn’t really that great. The secret to Starbucks success is that they target uneducated coffee drinkers; those who don’t drink good coffee in the first place because any one can make better coffee than McDonald’ or Burger King.
Coffee is a delicious treat but true coffee drinkers like coffee because of its effects. See I’m Cuban so coffee is part of my culture, oh and by the way the best coffee is Cuban coffee, but due to this heritage I have been drinking coffee since I graduated from formula. I don’t know why my mom, grandma and everyone else gave it to me in a baby bottle but hell I liked it. Now with that said let me explain what is it about coffee that I like. Before I was addicted to coffee I needed to drink it before a certain time in the morning or else I’d have a headache all day that no amount of Tylenol, aspirin, or any other pain killer could kill. In high school I decided to overcome my addiction and start drinking coffee just for the joy of it. I quit cold turkey for two of the worse weeks of my life and now coffee is my headache cure. If I have a headache a good coffee will knock it out with one sip and I’m not over exaggerating. Some people drink it to wake up and early in the morning a good coffee will do that too.
Starbucks won’t do that. Starbucks coffee taste good but it’s not really coffee, its weak coffee. One of the last times I went to Starbucks, I was in downtown early in the morning. I forgot why I was there but I remember that I didn’t sleep the night before and for someone who thinks anything before noon is early I know I was in a bad mood because Starbucks had just opened. So I need this coffee to wake me up and I order my “venti white chocolate mocha.” I had already paid and when they gave me the coffee I asked for whip cream, which naturally comes with the order. Well the girl gives me this big lecture that I have to ask for the whip cream before I pay because it cost extra. Having gone to Starbucks several times I knew that was not true and it was early and I still didn’t have the coffee so maybe I over reacted but I said something like,” You ignorant fat bitch, obviously you haven’t been working here long because this is how the fucking order comes so don’t give me shit because you live life with your head up your ass.” This is one of several reasons I don’t go to Starbucks anymore but also because the coffee didn’t help my headache at all. I was in shock; I had never drunk Starbucks so early before so I had no idea that it would be this weak.
So they have shit for service and shit for coffee and it’s extremely over priced but everyone still goes there. In my mom’s hospital, at this one office and I’m sure in other work environment Starbucks has become a status symbol. I actually know people who keep a Starbucks cup but fill it up with their own coffee just so everyone will still accept them in their Starbucks clicks. I just stand and look in amazement. People what Starbucks calls a latte is what I call Café con Leche. It’s espresso with milk. Make your own coffee. Just listen to me go out to your local grocery store and look in the “ethnic” or “Spanish” isle. In this isle you can find two great coffee’s, Bustelo or Pillon, which ever you pick they are both great. Now once you have it make it just like you make any other coffee. I’ve seen it made with several different coffee machines and it always comes out great. Mix this with however much milk and sugar you feel necessary and call me. Call me and honestly tell me that this coffee isn’t a billion times better than anything Starbucks has to offer. Starbucks is using you to get rich, stop letting them take advantage of you. Make this coffee and save money, time and rid yourself of shitty coffee.
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