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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Look Starbucks often trades on the reputation of small local roaster by imitating their patterns and colors, much like how insects will imitate wasps to avoid getting eaten by predators. but they’ve been leaning on high sugar content and colorful food dyes for decades to make up for the fact that they sell generic mediocre, supply chain and consistency optimized coffee, and are slowly transitioning in to a fast food chain.

Like is it bad coffee? No, it’s fine, it has caffeine and will taste what ever, maybe even good with enough sugar and cream. But it’s nothing compared to the stuff being whipped out by the tired eyed enby who looks like they’ll cut you if you ask for a frapachino but simultaneously will eagerly info dump about the origin, drying and roasting process of what they have available that day.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

imagine going to starb*cks 🤮

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Shouldn't the asterisk be here

Star*ucks

?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'm all for the non-binary support. But I'll be real, every queer person I've worked at a coffee shop with was not there to make good coffee or appeal to customers.

I don't blame them whatsoever, I wasn't there for that either I'm just saying.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How do they know no one is nobinary? Did they ask everyone for their gender? 💀

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because none of them have blue hair. If no one has blue hair then no one can be non-binary with blue hair.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

But I want purple tips, not blue...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It's the blue hair that completes the ritual. One of them could be non-binary but they can't get that last step.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because when he went to order they didn't say "01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100100 01110010 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00111111"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Hang on. If there were no nonbinary people theb shouldn't this be "they only said 0s and 1s". There's too many negatives to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Pika 20 points 1 day ago

I have noticed that it seems like the best coffee comes from people who are super openly expressive of their styles. I think it's probably due to the fact that the people who are open about their expressions, are also more open for varying away from the hard set recipe in order to improve the drink.

It's a relation I hadent connected the dots on till I saw this post and started thinking.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago

"How you gon' make a Caramel Sassifras with no sass?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

what is cappy doing at the starbucks bro

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, uh, that looks like a chain. I never had chain coffee that wasn't at best mid.

[–] ArbitraryValue 2 points 1 day ago

You guys aren't fans of construction-worker diners?