Coffee
Michelle Malkin has a post about leaving Starbucks over their corporate policies, and how much better Dunkin Donuts coffee is.
I went to DD’s website, and the store finder widget returned zero results. There are no Dunkin Donuts stores in Colorado, apparently. But we do have a lot of Starbucks- one store every 900 feet.
If I go to Starbucks, it’s mainly because I’ve seen the coffee station at 7-11, and the people using/maintaining it, and it doesn’t look too sanitary. But I do tire of the pretentiousness and the relentless cheerfulness of Starbucks. (I am not a cheerful person, by nature. I am never walking on sunshine.) And the ever-present stack of NYTimes newspapers for sale irritates me.
Coffee, or more specifically caffeine, is my drug. I don’t drink alcohol anymore, and what with random urinalysis at work, don’t do drugs. I wouldn’t anyway. Nope- caffeine, nicotine, and Ibuprofen (which I must be getting immune to, because I am taking 10 200mg tabs at a time now, when I need it) do it for me.
Currently I buy Starbucks beans at the grocer and grind them at home. That way I can make it as potent as I want to. I want it strong. I want a cup of coffee that slaps me in the face. I want to drink two cups and get a buzz so bad that it makes me want to chew on the bumper of my truck.
But maybe it’s time to find a new brew. I’d try DD coffee if they sold it at my grocer but they don’t. Actually, the best coffee I’ve ever had comes from Old Bisbee Roasters in Bisbee Arizona. It’s a little pricey but they roast it to order and ship free by FedEx. And they have exotic beans from around the world- Ethiopia, Sumatra, Costa Rica, etc.
I think the next time I buy cofeee beans, I’ll try something other than Starbucks. Starbucks is trendy. I hate trendy.
May 6, 2008 at 10:37 am
Good Lord, man. TEN tablets at a time? Sounds like that quit smoking thing didnt’ work either. I’m down to about five a day.
Fortunately I don’t drink coffee, so I never got the whole Starbucks thing.
May 6, 2008 at 11:41 am
Barry, for some reason DD left Colorado a few years ago. Pueblo used to have a couple of their stores.
I noticed our Safeway in Pueblo West has just started carrying bags of DD coffees. Haven’t tried them as I’m satisfied with buying Starbucks beans there. I, too, grind them myself. Tastes better. Maybe it’s a store stock policy and other Safeways in Colorado now carry DD coffee. As I recall, glancing at the price, the DD coffee was higher than Starbucks.
May 6, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Hey, I’m doing a little spring cleaning at doubleplusundead, and I realized that somehow your name got missed on my Moronosphere blogroll. I don’t do the roll, Conservative Belle does, so I emailed her to have her add your name, which should happen in a little while.
I’m basically taking all the names that are in the Moronosphere roll (or in your case, supposed to be in the roll) and taking them off my regular roll to eliminate the redundancy of having the same blogs twice and save some space.
I just don’t want you to go to my site and go ZOMG! HE DELINKED ME THAT JERK!!1!11eleventy!1 I didn’t, I just didn’t realize your site wasn’t on the Moronosphere roll…it is a big friggin’ roll, I’m surprised we’ve only forgotten one. Wouldn’t technically matter, I have you on my Moronosphere RSS anyway, so you’d still get linked in the daily links.
May 6, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Okay, you’ve been added. No, we don’t know how you got missed either.
May 6, 2008 at 2:28 pm
OK Zombie!