On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:53:43 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 11/14/17 11:05 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 05:40:28 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


To me, Starbucks regular coffee just tastes burnt. Maybe it's because it is burnt...

I am not a Starbucks fan either. It is just nasty. It tastes like that
coffee you find at midnight that was in the Bunn cooking all day.
I had a hard time finding a regular cup of coffee in New Zealand too.
It is all espresso there. We talked to the owner of a little
restaurant out in the country for a while and she said that was fairly
new and she was not sure why the whole country "got on the bandwagon".
She didn't like espresso either but that was what the market demanded.
She sold me a cup of regular coffee from her personal pot.


I don't like the coffee Starbucks brews and serves. It always tastes
"too strong" for my taste. I do like WaWa brewed coffee, though.

The 7-11 coffee was real good in the 70s. When they changed the cups,
the coffee was different. It was all part of an "improvement" in the
food and beverage center and I am sure the coffee blend changed. I
think some of the flavor may have come from the cup. ;-)

On 11/14/17 12:19 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:53:43 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 11/14/17 11:05 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 05:40:28 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


To me, Starbucks regular coffee just tastes burnt. Maybe it's because it is burnt...

I am not a Starbucks fan either. It is just nasty. It tastes like that
coffee you find at midnight that was in the Bunn cooking all day.
I had a hard time finding a regular cup of coffee in New Zealand too.
It is all espresso there. We talked to the owner of a little
restaurant out in the country for a while and she said that was fairly
new and she was not sure why the whole country "got on the bandwagon".
She didn't like espresso either but that was what the market demanded.
She sold me a cup of regular coffee from her personal pot.


I don't like the coffee Starbucks brews and serves. It always tastes
"too strong" for my taste. I do like WaWa brewed coffee, though.

The 7-11 coffee was real good in the 70s. When they changed the cups,
the coffee was different. It was all part of an "improvement" in the
food and beverage center and I am sure the coffee blend changed. I
think some of the flavor may have come from the cup. ;-)


I used to stop at a 7-11 in Great Falls, Va., while I was general
contracting a house out there. Sometimes I'd get a plain donut. In those
days, 7-11 got its donuts from Montgomery Donuts, and they were pretty
good. Then the chain changed its coffee and donut supplier, and both
products went to hell. The local 7-11s don't attend properly to their
coffee decanters, and many times it is lukewarm. I don't often stop
there if there is a WaWa nearby.

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:19:25 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

7-11 got its donuts from Montgomery Donuts

Interesting. That was started by Carl Probert, a former IBM CE at NIH.
He quit IBM over a salary dispute (IBMs mistake IMHO) and went off to
make doughnuts. He used to drop by the office after that with a couple
dozen, if we promised the branch manager would not get any. His
secretary may have slipped him one but the troops stayed true to the
cause.
The strange thing is shortly after he left, IBM created the position
hardware"account rep" and granted the salary range he wanted because
he was right. It just took them a while without him to figure it out.
They guy they put into the job was not nearly as good.

wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:53:43 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 11/14/17 11:05 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 05:40:28 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


To me, Starbucks regular coffee just tastes burnt. Maybe it's because it is burnt...

I am not a Starbucks fan either. It is just nasty. It tastes like that
coffee you find at midnight that was in the Bunn cooking all day.
I had a hard time finding a regular cup of coffee in New Zealand too.
It is all espresso there. We talked to the owner of a little
restaurant out in the country for a while and she said that was fairly
new and she was not sure why the whole country "got on the bandwagon".
She didn't like espresso either but that was what the market demanded.
She sold me a cup of regular coffee from her personal pot.


I don't like the coffee Starbucks brews and serves. It always tastes
"too strong" for my taste. I do like WaWa brewed coffee, though.

The 7-11 coffee was real good in the 70s. When they changed the cups,
the coffee was different. It was all part of an "improvement" in the
food and beverage center and I am sure the coffee blend changed. I
think some of the flavor may have come from the cup. ;-)


1979 I stopped at a Circle K for morning coffee on my way to work. That
place had the best coffee I consistently came across. Decent coffee
grounds, and probably the perfect brewing temperature in the machine.