Comments on: The Coffee Problem

By: Erudite Opinions

Erudite Opinions — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:52:41 +0000

These people are lost in the paraphernalia of a culture-less modern life and are uninformed about coffee or food and they don’t care.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:33:45 +0000

Hammie and Make Do – I’m jealous!! My mom’s got a Nespresso and it’s amazing, I want one.
And if anyone is ever on Q & 17th Streets in DC with a hangover go to Java House and order the espresso milkshake.

By: Nephew Wolf

Nephew Wolf — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:11:56 +0000

The people you describe are surely perfectionists about something, but they’re not perfectionists about coffee. If they were, they would be ordering drinks that allow them to taste the stuff. And their perfectionism would have to take the form of writing snarky Yelp reviews after the fact, or something, because these drinks don’t really lend themselves to persnickety specifications when ordering: “Espresso, please.” “Cup of the Maravilla for here.”

I think that a far more interesting phenomenon shows itself right here in the comments of this post: the functioning adult who is intimidated by Starbucks. I’m really not sure how it’s possible that people who are reasonably intelligent and in touch with the world in which they live can feel socially anxious about the prospect of walking into a branch of a restaurant chain that is as omnipresent as McDonalds and has a considerably smaller menu. Are there cultural pockets out there where Starbucks somehow never lost the boutique-y image it had when it began its big push beyond Seattle twenty years ago?

By: candy

candy — Wed, 04 May 2011 04:55:28 +0000

you are a very intelligent woman, loved this and so true!

“My own theory is that they didn’t get enough of Mommy’s attentive pampering so now they’re going to take it out on some helpless coffee server who can’t spank them or send them to their room”

By: candy

candy — Wed, 04 May 2011 04:52:56 +0000

very good subject SW as always

By: kate

kate — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:13:13 +0000

ii don’t know, maybe san francisco is just cool about this shit. when i go into a starbucks i order a large coffee, and the barrista turns around, pours coffee into a cup and hands it to me. in and out, baby.
sometimes they ask me if i need room for cream. but i haven’t run into too many idiots who need me to clarify what i mean by large.

By: Desiree

Desiree — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:28:46 +0000

A waitress once made me an “espresso” using instant from a can. Wonder what the arseholes would have have of that – I nearly sprayed it across the cafe when I took a sip!

By: thedelicatemink

thedelicatemink — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:10:38 +0000

I am a coffee idiot and I love Flat Whites.

By: Jade Carver

Jade Carver — Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:14 +0000

Susana C: *to

Also I’m assuming by ‘this country’ you mean America. If you’d actually read the comments, you’d see that a lot of commenters, including myself, do not live there.

None of us are claiming we are perfect, and we are allowed to rant about whatever we want. Especially Sister Wolf since her rants are fun as hell to read 🙂

Hammiesays: please explain! Flat white invented in Melbourne whaaaa? *stalks Wikipedia*

By: Suspended

Suspended — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:15:21 +0000

Coffee for people who hate the taste of coffee but love paying $4 for some weak aroma.