On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott Loveless wrote: > >>On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I like it - but, what's a 'single-shot Americano?' >>> >>> (sounds a bit like the aftermath of a shoot-out in and old western >>> movie...) >> >>Americano is the expensive way to serve up a regular coffee. > > It also used to be the only way to get a decent cup of coffee at > Starbucks. They've improved their normal coffee of late, but in the > past it was quite awful and whenever I wanted a "normal" coffee from > Starbucks I'd order an Americano.
Agreed. Their regular coffee was worse than the typical hotel swill. I haven't set foot in a Bigbucks in quite some time, but it's nice to hear they're improving things a bit. On the other hand, St. Louis Bread Company (known elsewhere as Panera) used to have really good brewed coffee. Earlier this year they changed it to something a lot like that crap Starbucks serves. And I stopped going. Then one Sunday morning the wife says she wants cranberry walnut bagels and drags me into their nearest store. They had a "new" smooth blend. It was their old coffee. I still can't quite figure out why on earth they'd want to emulate the coffee of a chain that recently had to close a bunch of stores. -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
