Starbucks? Evil?

Post #197,917 by rcareaga 3/10/05 9:55:17 AM Reply	Starbucks? Evil? When the choice is available I'm a Peet's kinda guy myself, but "burnt" espresso or no, Starbucks has brought decent coffee to parts of the country where this delicacy was unknown twenty years ago. Many of you insolent young pups weren't drinking the blood of the bean back then, but I was, and I remember... On a roadtrip today one has a reasonable expectation of finding potable coffee, yea, even in West Bumfuck. It was not always so. You won't catch me sneering at the green-and-white. Also, they market a canned creation called a "Double Shot," a guilty pleasure of mine, that ought to be a controlled substance. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #197,921 by bionerd 3/10/05 10:19:16 AM Reply	I like the Double Shot, too And their bottled frappachino. I'll usually slam one of those down while waiting for my morning coffee to brew. It's like, "How much more black could this be?", and the answer is none. None more black.
Post #197,930 by jake123 3/10/05 12:03:31 PM Reply	Put's the lie to your sig, eh? Lotsa stuff blacker than a starbucks frappaccino. ....And a pox on them if they actually spell it with an "h". --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #198,059 by tuberculosis 3/11/05 1:22:36 PM 8/21/07 6:15:47 AM Reply	1 Frappuccino == 1/2 Whopper I'd rather eat the burgers. [link\|http://www.theeagle.com/food/051204coffee.htm\|http://www.theeagle..../051204coffee.htm] Her regular order used to be a Frappuccino, a blended coffee-milk drink that can be flavored with mocha syrup, chocolate syrup, caramel, chocolate chips or toffee, until she checked the Starbucks nutritional info. A mocha Frappuccino has 290 calories, 4 grams of fat and 58 grams of carbohydrates (48 from sugar). [link\|http://www.healthtrek.org/lesson05.php\|http://www.healthtrek.org/lesson05.php] Big Mac is 590 cal with 34g fat The venti white chocolate mocha is over 600. YOW! Edit: OK I actually did research. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis March 11, 2005, 01:40:11 PM EST Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:15:47 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #198,067 by Another Scott 3/11/05 1:53:13 PM Reply	A Whopper is 700 calories with mayo. [link\|http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:CpBhr5eRnKIJ:www.bk.com/food/nutrition/downloads/food_xchange.pdf&hl=en\|Google Cache], 800 calories with cheese. Cheers, Scott.
Post #198,078 by bionerd 3/11/05 3:32:36 PM 3/11/05 4:27:53 PM Reply	No, not the drinks they whip up in the stores That's like drinking lard in a cup. The little bottled drinks are made with lowfat milk- they're under 200 calories and quite good. It's like, "How much more black could this be?", and the answer is none. None more black. Edited by bionerd March 11, 2005, 04:27:53 PM EST Expand All History

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