Hi, Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 12:41:19 AM, pnstenquist wrote:
> Dark roast coffees have a strong flavor. It can grow on you, but > at first blush it does taste bitter. If Starbucks' coffee was so > awful, they wouldn't be selling so much of it. "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the taste of the American public" H L Mencken We can extend that to the UK and other countries as far as Starbucks horrible coffee is concerned, which I think is bland. It's an American peculiarity to equate high popularity with high quality. -- Cheers, Bob

