• Bertuccio@lemmy.world
      24·
      3 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…

      • gentooer@programming.dev
        15·
        3 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.

        • tempest@lemmy.ca
          4·
          3 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.

          • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            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

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 months ago

      It’s genuinely some of the worst coffee you can get. They only specialize in drinks that are basically just milkshakes with coffee in them.

      Hersheys + ice + milk + coffee beats any iced mocha they’ve ever made at starbucks.