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"Look at me (holding a Starbucks cup.) I've just been ripped off. I'm cool. Corporate-cool." The veneer of Starbucks is starting to peel. Sales are down and I'm ok with that. Look I'm a Capitalist, but their coffee just got bested in taste tests by McDonalds. Also, I refuse to speak their silly Starbucks language. To get a medium coffee w/ low fat milk is to get a "non-fat Grande latte no whip" for example. A Barista is supposed to be an artist, of sorts, skilled in crafting you a personalized cup-a-joe.
To call the snobby Starbucks worker pushing a computer's button "a Barista" is a joke. Kinda like the street cleaners at Disney World are called "cast members." Sure. And the "Barista" wants tips? Forget that snotty-not-that-hotty! Why are they selling "Eckah & The Bee" on DVD there? Paul McCartney is on their cd label yet admitted he doesn't drink their bitter joe. They've jumped the shark with drive-thrus, and breakfast sandwiches, and lost their cute boutique charm and oversaturated their markets... Their stock is dropping and they are opening fewer stores-100 less this year than planned.
Coffee shops used to be local hangs for creative- types to talk over and endless cup of coffee that cost fifty cents. Corporate America bogarted it, homogenized it, and ruined it. Next time you order that frappe latte with a stale $3 banana loaf slice with that heavy taste of factory, look at all the people in the plastic -living- room like illusion of community and wonder why they are there.
Don't these people have living rooms? Their blank faces look like my boyhood hamsters trapped in a Habitrail. Wake up! We are a nation of hard -working speed- freaks that need our caffeine but why not go find a Mom and Pop place, save some doh ray me, and be part of a REAL community?
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