Forget Starbucks!

[billt]

Guess I won't be drinking Starbucks anymore! ! !

Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they send some of it to the troops there. Starbucks replied, telling the Marines thank you for their support of their business, but that Starbucks does not support the war, nor anyone in it, and that they would not send the troops their brand of coffee.
 
So as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not support them by buying any of their products! I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this war might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn't mean we don't support the boys on the ground fighting  street -to-street and house-to-house.
 
If you feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it and no one will never know.

Thanks very much for your support. I know you'll all be there again when I deploy once more.
Sgt. Howard C. Wright
1st Force Recon Co
1st Plt PLT
 
PLEASE DON'T DELETE THIS . ALLOW IT TO BE PASSED TO ALL IN MEMORY OF ALL THE TROOPS WHO HAVE DIED SO THAT WE MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE TO SUPPORT THEM OR NOT! ! !
 
Also, don't forget that when the TwinTowers were hit the fire fighters and rescue workers went to Starbucks because it was close by for water for the survivors and workers and Starbucks charged them! ! !
 

[Hazcat]

Fake

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/starbucks.asp

I just don't go because the coffee (regular, not that freu freu crap) is not that good and WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overpriced.

[tfr270]

Beat me to it....I'm not warm and fuzzy over Starbucks anyway...We have plenty of locally owned coffee shops around here that are less expensive and actually are polite to their customers.

[Hazcat]

Beat me to it....I'm not warm and fuzzy over Starbucks anyway...We have plenty of locally owned coffee shops around here that are less expensive and actually are polite to their customers.

Yeah, I was gonna mention the elite asshole staff (and most customers).

Today I'm drinking fresh ground 8 O'clock beans.

[Timothy]

Yeah, I was gonna mention the elite asshole staff (and most customers).

Today I'm drinking fresh ground 8 O'clock beans.

+1  four bucks a pound works for me....grind it myself, every cup.....

Whasamatter Haz?  Don't like the tats and pierced noses at the local freu, freu Starbucks.  "Goth Baristas"....

Gotta agree, the only time I actually buy one is to annoy the clerk when I ask for a large instead of a "Venti"....our Barnes & Noble bookstores all have them.  I buy a cup and sit and read all the gun mags.....

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[tfr270]

One of my fav's is the Filling Station on West College in Santa Rosa. She has a 50's gas station thing going on there and she has hired very cute young gals with tattoos...and the owner is a cutie too!

[Hazcat]

Hell I think 7-11 coffee is pretty darn good, in any case MUCH better than, Starbucks, Dunkin', McDs, etc.

[tombogan03884]

 7-11 is good but we don't have them up here, Cumberland Farms uses the same brand so their OK. McD's has the crappiest coffee on the planet (not counting espresso )

[Badgersmilk]

I make coffee every morning with a press (I like it, therefore refuse to put the F word in front of "press").  Smoothest, richest coffee in the world!  Takes an extra minute or two to make, but WELLLLL worth it!  Mmmmmmmm good.

We're not particular to the brand, but medium-dark roast is good.

[Pathfinder]

Fake

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/starbucks.asp

I just don't go because the coffee (regular, not that freu freu crap) is not that good and WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overpriced.

What, you don't like paying for  little socialist-produced $8 latte grande? What's wrong with you, man?

Yeah, I was gonna mention the elite asshole staff (and most customers).

Today I'm drinking fresh ground 8 O'clock beans.

When I was a kid, the first thing we kids did when shopping with Mom was run to the 8 o'clock grinder and sniff the hell out of it. We were not allowed to even look at a cup of coffee - and my Dad went through a lot of it, until we were much older. On the great day were were allowed to have our first sip - dayum, that stuff was nasty! How can something smell so good and taste so bad at that same time? ? ?

Never touch the stuff, not to this very day.