Males and Females

If people cared enough to be informed or were able to think critically about their choices those awful places wouldn't exist, and we'd have more options. Now those places don't care anymore; they won.

Around the east village in nyc there is a Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks. It's psychotic.

I like those indie shops but the people that work there are such dicks. The girls make up for it though.
 
If people cared enough to be informed or were able to think critically about their choices those awful places wouldn't exist, and we'd have more options. Now those places don't care anymore; they won.

Around the east village in nyc there is a Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks. It's psychotic.

I like those indie shops but the people that work there are such dicks. The girls make up for it though.

It's like that in Harvard Square, but I agree that the best places are not chains, or else very small chains, such as the Java House in Iowa City, where they brew your coffee right in front of you, letting it drip into your cup.
 
I brew Folger's Columbian very heavy and regularly get complements on the aroma. Every bit as good as Dunkin's and way better than Starbucks. Don't know why people pay so much money for that trash. Brewing your own > Paying per cup.
 
My preferred coffee is grinding up some whole bean or getting some nice Gevalia, and making it in my french press. And of course I drink all coffee black.

I almost forgot this was the males and females thread. My preferred female would prefer black coffee.
 
I get Green Mountain Coffee at a local store and it taste fine. I only go to Starbucks if I have a gift card.
 
Starbucks is crap. Dunkin is decent, and by Dunkin I'm referring to buying the beans/grounds yourself and brewing. Buying it from the store or from a Hess station or something is not even remotely the same.

If you absolutely have to get coffee on the go, outside of whatever your indie coffee shop of choice is, the place to stop is at a Pilot Travel Center, or maybe a TA (Travel America travel center). Loves or Petros are ok but less dependable on consistency. Just about anything else you get on the go is going to be coffee-ish flavored piss water. Or if it's Starbucks, it's just burnt dreg tasting.