Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts?

Starbucks is over-roasted and tastes like burnt coffee to me. :thumbdn:
And, considering the price of Starbucks, I can't believe they have the nerve to have a "tip jar" on the counter! :grumpy: :thumbdn:

Duncan Donuts is okay. :thumbup:
 
If you have to drink coffee at Starbucks try an Americano. It is espresso diluted with hot water and ain't bad. McDonalds has a senior coffee that is 50-60 cents. Not a bad deal.
 
I am addicted to Starbucks' Chai Frappacino, a sort of spiced tea latte milk shake. I also love their cinnamon scones. I used to love their blueberry scones, but they changed them and I do not like the new ones at all. I also like their breakfast sandwiches which I find better than the Egg McMuffin which I also like and the Starbucks coffee is infinitely better than anything that I have EVER had from a McDonalds. I am also fond of some of Starbucks fancy coffee drinks such as their caramel macchiato when I am in the mood for a sweet dessert.

Finally, I used to really like Dunkin' Donuts for their plain donuts but I cannot find a Dunkin' Donuts around DC anymore. They have merged with some other donut company that specializes in overly sugared crap, a sort of Wonder Bread with excessive sugar coating, that I despise, so I don't go there any longer.
 
which I find better than the Egg McMuffin
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Those things are nasty. The taste like horse dung, and the smell makes my stomache churn.

Krispy Kreme has great donuts, but their coffee isn't better than the standard Kwicky-Mart fare.

-Bob
 
Uh uh! All that chain store homogenized muck! Get into a local privately owned cafe that's where real quality tea&coffee gets served. Get brewing STRONG tea and coffee at home too using proper methods no quickies!
 
( In my best Sheriff Bart voice....)
COFFEE-GRAM FOR DANBO, COFFEE-GRAM FOR DANBO Danbo, Mr. Coffee himself needs to contribute to this thread...

Starbucks... :barf: :barf: :barf: Over roasted "Donkey Piss" is but one of the few descriptions. Nasty stuff, can't even rescue it with tons of cream and Splenda.
 
Buy green beans and an inexpensive roaster and roast your own coffee. You might never go to one of these wannabe coffee shops again! :)

In all seriousness, you can't get much fresher, than coffee you roasted yourself. Plus, you can stop the roast WAY before it gets burnt crispy, like Charbucks roasts.
 
Want to to hear the real funny part? the espresso that you buy out of vending machines at motorway rest stops in France is as good if not better than anything that any "barista" will churn out in the US. We get the dregs of the coffe crop from places like Colombia. The best stuff gets sold for top dollar at tourist shops and kiosks in the Bogota airport. The next best stuff goes to France and Germany. We are at the botom of the list because we have been raised drinking weak ass colored water like Folgers and Maxwell House. Most of the Blue Mountain and Kona we get over here is maybe 10% premium stuff and 90% normal barn floor sweepings. Real Kona costs a ton, as does Blue Mountain, which you can sometimes get in Florida. Best bang for the buck in espresso grind coffee is the Cuban stuff like Bustello and Pilon.
 
You could be right, it all began with the satanic cult of INSTANT COFFEE-weak and artificial.

In Europe, there's a very cheap chain supermarket called LIDL they sell some boss espresso in tins which you can also use in coffee machines for a very strong ordinary cup with or without milk!

In my view, the best coffee(my favourite) comes from Africa in the form of MOKKA SIDAMO, but it's scare and costly, well worth it though:thumbup:
 
I actually used to have a source for 100% Kona coffee and I must admit that I got spoiled by that coffee. It is one of the very few that I drank black and unsweetened.

Krispy-Kreme is the donut company with which Dunkin' Donuts merged around the DC area and those are the heavily suggared Wonder Bread donuts to which I referred. :barf: :barf:
 
Any place EXCEPT Starbucks! :barf:

Don't like the burnt coffee, don't like the snotty kids who work there, don't like the 236-item menu, and don't like the yuppy-puppy customers who nurse a coffee for 3 hours, pretending they're in an episode of "Friends". :rolleyes:
 
jdm61 said:
Want to to hear the real funny part? the espresso that you buy out of vending machines at motorway rest stops in France is as good if not better than anything that any "barista" will churn out in the US. We get the dregs of the coffe crop from places like Colombia. The best stuff gets sold for top dollar at tourist shops and kiosks in the Bogota airport. The next best stuff goes to France and Germany. We are at the botom of the list because we have been raised drinking weak ass colored water like Folgers and Maxwell House. Most of the Blue Mountain and Kona we get over here is maybe 10% premium stuff and 90% normal barn floor sweepings. Real Kona costs a ton, as does Blue Mountain, which you can sometimes get in Florida. Best bang for the buck in espresso grind coffee is the Cuban stuff like Bustello and Pilon.
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I have several empty cans of both Bustello and Pilon sitting in my pantry , the cans look too cool to throw away :D and the coffee is good but not near as good as the French roast beans I buy at my local store and grind at home , my ex introduced me to those coffee's when I lived in Florida. They are cheap and pretty tasty but the flavor gets old after a while.
I have to disagree though on who gets what beans , America has went thru a coffee revolution in the last decade , the only folks I know drinking Folgers and Maxwell House are my Folks and older relatives , oh and my boss still drinks that crystalized crap :barf: but to each thier own.
On the cruise I went on the little cafe served good espresso but nothing I cant make at home , we also stopped in a Mexican port town and did some walking , found a little cafe with pretty girls serving coffee and espresso , I was thinking the coffee would be something different but it was pretty much just a dark roasted bean not unlike French or Italian , good but nothing to write home about.
In Oklahoma, Tulsa there is a little shop that served some delicious varities and had one of the nicest selections of beans I have seen. i'll have to find the bag I bought and post the name to give them props.
 
If I have a choice:

1st = Starbucks Espresso
2nd = the new McDonalds coffee
a very distant 3rd = DD
 
We lost the Dunkin Donuts stores in Indianapolis. Their coffee was good to me but the challenge was staying away from their donuts...espc. apple fritters,,,,,
Like most Stabucks, espc. the milder blends.
Also like Cafe DuMonde with chickory added and their French Roast, but if you are used to folgers or similar you will probably make the Du Monde too strong...well I seem to...
The best coffee of all that I drink is the first cup or two with my wife almost every morning.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I used to like a little coffee with my sugar and cream, but now I just drink tea.
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I had a similar experience except i lost the sugar and cream and kept the coffee (black).lol.
However i am also a Canadian/Newfoundlander with British isles "mutt" anscestry (Irish/Scottish/Manx/Welsh) so i am genetically predisposed towards tea! lol. To avoid sleeping problems for me after 7 pm no coffee just tea.
 
It is a source of fascination to me that the Starbucks in Union Station is always backed up to beat Hell. There must be 18 or more other places where one can get coffee, frequently several varieties of coffees, in the Union Staion food courts and yet Starbucks is far and away the busiest. I am inclined to wonder why this should be if their coffee is all so bad as the posters in this thread would have us believe.
 
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