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1) Latte with caramel sauce. From Starbucks. Yes, I know what I said before about independent coffee shops etc. but sometimes the siren song of the caramel sauce is too much to resist. It's transformative, transcendent. It makes Starbucks mediocre coffee sing. It's like liquid gold on your tongue, sunshine on your coffee. My ideals remain the same. Chalk it up to human fallibility
2) Coffee beans from Fresh Market
3) Grapefruit juice for grapefruit mimosas
4) sourdough bread
5) ravioli
4 Comments:
Yes, Indy Coffee is good, but at least Starbucks has, to some degree, responded to the criticism of consumers. I just wish that all its coffee came from Fair Trade sources, not just its "Fair Trade Blend."
Starbucks has long been a model company in terms of employee benefits (they even offer buy-in health care to their part-time employees), pay-scale, and other issues. They are a pretty responsible corporation. They're milk is RGBH free, they offer soy milk alternatives and have for years. Starbucks is not inherently bad. There are just two things I don't like about it: 1) the coffee is not great and 2) every single one of them is the same.
Aah, good old simulacrum. Who doesn't love it.
[raises hand]
But that simulacrum is also one of it's best qualities--the product is of the same quality whether you are in VA or CA. And also in their favor is that they usually have comfy furniture and they let you stay forever even if you have only ordered one small tea, an hour ago.
I agree that it would be better if all of their coffee was from Fair Trade but as a giant competition-eating capitalistic company they are examplary for the treatment of their employees and response to criticism.
And I must add, and I fear that all of my defending is just equivocating as I love their chai lattes with soy mild. yum.
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