• @Bertuccio
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    253 months ago

    I started boycotting Starbucks when I learned they had partnered with Nestle for store-bought products - their Sumatra and Komodo Dragon coffees were pretty good.

    I send an email every year or so to let them know, since boycotts aren’t effective if the group being boycotted doesn’t know why, with predictably apathetic responses.

    Anyway, if you’re a no-Nestle person then Starbucks is on the list…

    • @[email protected]
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      153 months ago

      I started boycotting Starbucks since the first time I tasted their coffee. Espresso isn’t supposed to taste like burning tyres. I don’t understand how they can charge so much for dogshit coffee.

      It’s not impossible to make a chain of coffee houses that serves decent coffee, Espresso House did it in Sweden.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        Most people put cream and sugar in their coffee or get one of milk based beverages.

        They are not there for single origin light roasts.

      • @P1nkman
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        23 months ago

        The society in general is more about brands than good stuff. For anything…

        • @[email protected]
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          3 months ago

          No, society in general just isn’t too particular about their sweet milk drinks. You don’t need to use the most perfectly extracted espresso in a beverage that’s mostly dairy and sugar syrup.

          Edit: typo