Bob Blakely wrote:
Everyone has different tastes. Mine is definitely not for Starbucks coffee. I'm almost 58 years old now and have been drinking coffee since I was perhaps eight years old, when my dad would bring home fresh ground 8 O'clock Coffee from the A&P. (That's The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company to you young'uns. - No, it did not stunt my growth.) My favorite coffees are pure Kona or Blue Mountain, but they are quite expensive and rarely available from coffee houses, though some independents will have Blue Mountain on occasion or will order the beans for me.
Either or both are excellent coffees. I always take home some Kona coffee when we go to the Islands.
Sometimes I can convince them to put several small crystals of sea salt in with the grounds when they brew it.
What does that do to it?
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As to Starbuck's coffee requiring an "acquired taste", keep in mind that anything that tastes like crap can become an acquired taste, even to the point that you may believe that you can't live without it. This explains Scot's (or scotch to some) whiskey.
That's "whisky," Suh! Scotch malt whisky. Thanks be Starbucks doesn 't serve (and ruin) good whisky too!
You may ask, "well how do you
explain the great popularity of Starbuck's?" First, they have the best marketing since MacDonald's, and second, The common lemming effect. "Everyone thinks it's good so it must be good and if I say I don't like it, then I will betray my immaturity as a coffee connoisseur so I will drink it until I acquire a taste for it and when I finely get to the point where it no longer gags me, I'll tell everyone it's an 'acquired' taste thereby showing my sophistication regarding the world of gourmet coffee." I am currently typing this from "It's A Grind" where the coffee is smooth, rich and flavorful and where the wireless internet is totally free.
Regards, Bob...
Keith Whaley Member, "Friends of the Classic Malts ." ;�)
