Many recent studies found coffee is healthy.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/11/431036/coffee-safe-for-a-fib
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/coffee-may-improve-gut-health/
Starbucks is not actually coffee. It’s actually trash:
Real coffee is this:
Many recent studies found coffee is healthy.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/11/431036/coffee-safe-for-a-fib
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/coffee-may-improve-gut-health/
Starbucks is not actually coffee. It’s actually trash:
Real coffee is this:
Erm, not that I’m a fan of Starbucks at all but they absolutely have decent real coffe that has zero sugar in it. Several blends in fact.
No, even their regular coffee is awful.
McDonalds coffee is better than Starbuck’s, and its $1.
yeah, they’re better than the coffee that’s been sitting all week in the urn in the outreach hall whatever the name is i forget at the church i play music at. that shit’s nasty but free coffee’s free coffee
They certainly have non sugary drinks, whether they’re decent is another question.
Starbucks uses local imports. The biggest problem is that they burn the shit out of the beans to normalize it down to the same flavor. So, the big appeal of using locally-sourced beans is wiped away by the way the need for a consistent “flavor”.
That’s why Starbucks coffee tastes like shit.
The pike roast is the only one that is halfway decent in a pinch. It’s their “light” roast.
Local beans? Does it mean they don’t sell coffee in Canada and Europe?
It always has a burnt aftertaste IMO.
That’s because they burn it. It’s a branding thing. Massive companies demand uniformity in flavor. McDonald’s puts huge amounts of effort into making sure that a big mac in Maine tastes exactly the same as a big mac in LA.
Coffee beans are unpredictable, though. Beans from the same farm from the same crop can taste different month to month. So to make it uniform they overroast (burn) the beans.
this is also why in-n-out expanded very slowly for a while. it’s about making sure your supply chain can handle the growth and you can train the employees to keep the culture of the chain.
when they expanded too fast, their burgers got soggy. they haven’t fixed that.
Amazing. Never thought of this explanation but it makes sense.
It also helps keep some of the coffee flavor when you put in a quart of milk and sugar and flavoring.
Eew. No.
And added caffeine to make it more addictive. And union busting.
It’s ok coffee. It’s like Chifila - in 1998, when your mall got its first Starbucks, it was head and shoulders above the other options, which were 7/11 and IHOP. However, now that chicken sandwiches are taken seriously, basically everyone who tries beats whatever soggy shit CFA has on offer.
That is absolutely coffee, but iwhether its decent is subjective. Both times I went to starbucks it wasn’t much better than gasstation coffee.
I should have qualified - decent as in quality in comparison to the other fast food options. 😄
McDonalds coffee is way Bette, and its $1