You know you are sleep-deprived when you go to the nearest Starbucks to get your daily caffeine dose and the woman behind the counter looks at you, smiles and says: "You need coffee."
The cost thing is a good point. I can enjoy a 99 cent French Vanilla, Irish Creme, or Cinnamon Hazelnut at the convenience store when Starbucks asks several more dollars.
Cost makes a difference in taste — which is a double entendre if I ever heard one.
Anyone got a good maple bar recommendation anywhere? I first discovered them as a young boy watching the Atascadero High School Greyhounds play football. Their concession stand had great maple bars, but they are not the most common treat.
Jeff, you so got it right! Whats up with waiting in long lines and paying 3 bucks for a cup of coffee? what happened to the good all days when coffee WAS COFFEE? Not Starbucks!
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dm
on September 13, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Kinzi, it’s a deal my friend 🙂 *shakes hand*
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kinzi
on September 13, 2006 at 9:10 am
dm, you win…talking about DD pumpkin muffins to a hungry ex-pat was sweet revenge. I take it back about the coffee if you promise not to remind me of American goodies I can’t get in Jordan. 🙂
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dm
on September 12, 2006 at 5:12 pm
“Dunkin Donuts coffee is like dark tea!”
Awwwww, booooo! Haha
I have to agree that although the bearclaws are great, nothing beats their pumpkin muffins in the fall! That with a dunkaccino and I’m all good.
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kinzi
on September 12, 2006 at 2:24 am
Well, I guess I can sit here and drink my Austrian Julius Mienl brand without guilt.
Dunkin Donuts coffee is like dark tea! But, yea the bearclaw, I miss that. Enjoy one for me.
Hmmmmmm. Dunkin Donuts coffee — a big one — with a cinnamon-laced bearclaw. That’s devine decadence in the morning.
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Pretentiousness kills
on September 11, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Aboud,
When did the act of boycotting starbucks become a national cause and duty?
Your personal belief on some rumor of a connection between the founder (not even the owner) of a COFFEE SHOP and Israel became the focal point of your RESISTANCE????
What a pathetic, easy-way-out approach to fight for your cause. So now you are a better person, and assumes the position of “the arab world protector, savior and prophet†who decides what is a shame and what is not because of a cup of coffee!! WOW!
I know, I know, it is symbolism for the cause. Well your symbolism means squat. When there are people out there who dedicated their life to making real changes, and sacrificed the trivialities that your life centers around (and I know that for a fact because I know you personally), your expression of patriotism looks very small next to theirs. I am willing to bet you 25 JDs that you at least have one item of clothing that is manufactured or labeled by an American Israel-Supporting brand, if not a few items that carry a plain straight out Hebrew name on it like LEVI.
Just the typical empty, pretentious superficial, faffy-style, Abdoun-bred, simple-minded kind of resistance that we can do without.
You chose the very-effective starbucks abstinence as your method of resistance, it’s a personal decision. But to brag about it and to try to enforce it on others is just pathetic. Someone chooses to write a column, start a fund or carry a rifle while sipping stasbucks frappuccinos , it is their choice, and that does not make them a sellout or less of an arab than your late-partying, Marlboro-smoking, aimlessly-driving, time-wasting self.
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Outsider
on September 9, 2006 at 6:31 pm
I only want to comment on the disparity of opinion between Natasha and ABOUD. As an Israeli, I definitely would inflict my distrustful judgment on my culture, social order, and society if, for an instance, Hezbollah, Syria, or Iran opened a coffee shop in any part of the world and generated profits for their agenda or cause. As an American also, I would undeniably fight to close that coffee shop that is operated by an unfriendly entity. It is not bigotry, it is loyalty. In fact, the US closed hundreds of businesses that were operated by citizens of unfriendly nations. It is normal when citizens put their national duties above all impractical, theoretical, and philosophical intellect.
Even though I love Starbucks and fully support their fund-raising events to Israel, I think ABOUD was politically correct.
The cost thing is a good point. I can enjoy a 99 cent French Vanilla, Irish Creme, or Cinnamon Hazelnut at the convenience store when Starbucks asks several more dollars.
Cost makes a difference in taste — which is a double entendre if I ever heard one.
Anyone got a good maple bar recommendation anywhere? I first discovered them as a young boy watching the Atascadero High School Greyhounds play football. Their concession stand had great maple bars, but they are not the most common treat.
Jeff, you so got it right! Whats up with waiting in long lines and paying 3 bucks for a cup of coffee? what happened to the good all days when coffee WAS COFFEE? Not Starbucks!
Kinzi, it’s a deal my friend 🙂 *shakes hand*
dm, you win…talking about DD pumpkin muffins to a hungry ex-pat was sweet revenge. I take it back about the coffee if you promise not to remind me of American goodies I can’t get in Jordan. 🙂
“Dunkin Donuts coffee is like dark tea!”
Awwwww, booooo! Haha
I have to agree that although the bearclaws are great, nothing beats their pumpkin muffins in the fall! That with a dunkaccino and I’m all good.
Well, I guess I can sit here and drink my Austrian Julius Mienl brand without guilt.
Dunkin Donuts coffee is like dark tea! But, yea the bearclaw, I miss that. Enjoy one for me.
Hmmmmmm. Dunkin Donuts coffee — a big one — with a cinnamon-laced bearclaw. That’s devine decadence in the morning.
Aboud,
When did the act of boycotting starbucks become a national cause and duty?
Your personal belief on some rumor of a connection between the founder (not even the owner) of a COFFEE SHOP and Israel became the focal point of your RESISTANCE????
What a pathetic, easy-way-out approach to fight for your cause. So now you are a better person, and assumes the position of “the arab world protector, savior and prophet†who decides what is a shame and what is not because of a cup of coffee!! WOW!
I know, I know, it is symbolism for the cause. Well your symbolism means squat. When there are people out there who dedicated their life to making real changes, and sacrificed the trivialities that your life centers around (and I know that for a fact because I know you personally), your expression of patriotism looks very small next to theirs. I am willing to bet you 25 JDs that you at least have one item of clothing that is manufactured or labeled by an American Israel-Supporting brand, if not a few items that carry a plain straight out Hebrew name on it like LEVI.
Just the typical empty, pretentious superficial, faffy-style, Abdoun-bred, simple-minded kind of resistance that we can do without.
You chose the very-effective starbucks abstinence as your method of resistance, it’s a personal decision. But to brag about it and to try to enforce it on others is just pathetic. Someone chooses to write a column, start a fund or carry a rifle while sipping stasbucks frappuccinos , it is their choice, and that does not make them a sellout or less of an arab than your late-partying, Marlboro-smoking, aimlessly-driving, time-wasting self.
I only want to comment on the disparity of opinion between Natasha and ABOUD. As an Israeli, I definitely would inflict my distrustful judgment on my culture, social order, and society if, for an instance, Hezbollah, Syria, or Iran opened a coffee shop in any part of the world and generated profits for their agenda or cause. As an American also, I would undeniably fight to close that coffee shop that is operated by an unfriendly entity. It is not bigotry, it is loyalty. In fact, the US closed hundreds of businesses that were operated by citizens of unfriendly nations. It is normal when citizens put their national duties above all impractical, theoretical, and philosophical intellect.
Even though I love Starbucks and fully support their fund-raising events to Israel, I think ABOUD was politically correct.
Did I mention that the UW-Madison bookstore has “fair trade” coffee?