While Starbucks may be an evil empire bent on sprawling across the land and devouring smaller coffee shops like some alien energy creature, it cannot be denied that, in fact, their product is just shitty and that is a good enough reason not to go there.
I realize I may be in the minority with this view, but I think I can state it with some authority as I have consumed Starbucks drinks for awhile now. The coffee is unspectacular. The lattes taste like hot flavored milk and the mochas taste like hot chocolate. They are simply stingy with the espresso shots. I have watched the shots dribble from the automated machines, and they can’t amount to more than a couple tablespoons. Hey, maybe I’m wrong. But I have tasted real espresso, and I don’t taste it in Starbucks espresso drinks.
I shaved my legs this morning. They are now all silky smooth as I applied some ginger lotion after my shower. I only shave a couple times a month. Throughout my twenties I never shaved my legs at all. I wonder how much money and time that saved me.
Two of my Holland tulips are finally growing in the terracotta pot out on the fire escape. Unfortunately a pigeon has made her nest there as well. She doesn’t seem too keen on laying a egg, however. She just sits there sleeping all day and night. Okay maybe she goes out to forage in the daytime, but she’s back at night, chillin in my flowerpot. Wonder if she’ll be able to find our new apartment next week.
I really want to go swimming some time this summer. And not in a swimming pool. There doesn’t seem to be any non-polluted place to do this in the Bay Area. When I was in Olympia, we would go to this swimming hole in Tumwater several times each summer. There was a creek with a deep bend in it — people climbed the tree beside it and jumped in. We floated down the current, scraping knees against the rocks on the bottom. We caught crawdads. They looked like insects. My skin always burned a little by the end of the day.
We have an ocean here, but it’s too wild and too cold to swim in.
Starfuckers
Yeah, I’m right there with you on the Starbucks bashing. Not only do they embody the purest form of corporate evil in America, right up there with Microshaft, but their coffee sucks, plain and simple. THEY DON’T EVEN PRODUCE GOOD PRODUCTS (much like Microshaft, actually).
swimming
I believe there is a beach up by bolinas somewhere where people do actually go swimming in the summertime. Its a big flat beach with a bit of an inlet, so its protected. Also, santa cruz?
Excellent way to start off every LJ Entry, with an Anti-Starbucks Rant. you rock, you rock, you rock!
Why thank you 🙂
I should have amended my rant to say that while I once patronized the Starbucks, I no longer do, and instead I frequent (1) my own kitchen teakettle and filter, (2) Peets, and (3) whatever diner I am having breakfast at for my coffee.
Oh and the Tully’s frozen coffee swirly drink is the BESTEST.
“My skin always burned a little by the end of the day.”
Oh man, that sounds like swimmer’s itch. There is a lot of that around here on smaller lakes. It comes from ducks. They “napalm” some of the more popular in-land lakes with this stuff that kills it.
I maybe the only human that has never even been in a Starbucks. I have never had a latte or expresso either. I have a fear of milky stuff(Calling Dr Frued). I even drink coffe straight black.
The gene for lactose-intolerance is actually a prehistoric throwback. It lives in all humans, but most Western people have overcome this particular genetic predisposition. Most Asians and Africans are more predisposed to lactose intolerance. All prehistoric people were allergic to non-human milk after weaning, that is until we began domesticating herd animals like goats and using their milk for food.
There was a study on this that I read last week. The study confirmed yet again that there are no “races” if you just look at DNA — we’re all the same.
YES I AM A NERD WHAT OF IT
Haha, I actually knew that! Have you ever heard the current theory about the hormones in milk? Around the early 1900’s girls usually got their first period when they were 16 or even older, where now it isn’t uncommon that girls get it under 10 years of age. Many, scientists blame this on the artifical hormones given to cows to make them give more milk.I think after more studies are done it will be confirmed that milk causes all evil.
I maybe the only human that has never even been in a Starbucks.
You’re one of two.
another link
Here is another link to some info on the current U.S. foriegn policy on Iraq:
http://www.ceip.org/files/Publications/Originsofregimechangeiniraq.asp?from=pubauthor