Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, it's all relative. Compared to the coffee that was available before in London or New York, Starbucks is a huge improvement. As for 7-11, I don't know...I worked in one 20 years ago and aside from the color, the beverage served there had very few similarities to coffee. Nathan Feli di Giorgio wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 16:10, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > Just to make y'all envious: when I am in Seville (every week) I get a > > cup of coffee for 80 Euro cents which beats anything I have ever tasted > > at any Starbucks or other yuppified coffee shop. I do spend more on > > coffee when I am in New York or London, since the native stuff there is > > awful. > > Nathan > > Starbucks makes some of the worst coffee on the planet and it costs an > arm and a leg to boot. Sometimes I think I should just go in there and ask the guy > behind the counter to simply kick me in the shins for the same amount of money. > Would be just about as enjoyable. I also really dislike how they have run all > of the small local coffee shops out of business. A Starbucks store has about as much > personality as a damp cardboard box. Feels like sitting in a cooperate cafeteria. > Believe it or not 7-11 actually makes a pretty good, drinkable cup of coffee. > Some of the better coffee I've recently had was from a catering truck that served > a roast from the New Hall Roasting Company, which I subsequently stumbled across > at Costco... > > Feli > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 http://www.nathanfoto.com/index.html