Starbucks

[atyclb]

21 minutes ago, tropo said:

Standing around in or outside a 7Eleven to save money on coffee is rather desperate. You're probably getting 14 teaspoons of sugar in that sweetened milk coffee too - bargain!

 

specifically given 130 baht charbucks sweetened coffee drink or a 14 baht 7eleven sweetened coffee drink i'd choose 7eleven.   nothing about standing around or desperation.

 

at home i have a small commercial espresso machine with water mains direct connection and a grinder. also home roast ethiopian beans plus have stock of italy roasted beans also.

 

if traveling no prblem grabbing a 14 baht 7eleven coffee and bringing to my hotel room.

 

ps; despite having owned several macbooks, never once took one to starbucks

Edited September 13, 2018 by atyclb

[marcusarelus]

38 minutes ago, tropo said:

Sorry, I just assumed that most people have milk at home... or you could buy the 3-in-1 coffee sachets.

Not milk.  Crema.  It's the foam made on the top of the coffee.  Not cream just coffee.  The coffee below has no cream added you can see that on the saucer. 

[atyclb]

3 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Not milk.  Crema.  It's the foam made on the top of the coffee.  Not cream just coffee.  The coffee below has no cream added you can see that on the saucer. 

 

[timendres]

On 9/12/2018 at 4:27 PM, marcusarelus said:

Below are my home machine that I don't use anymore and one from my bar in SF.

Those are beautiful machines. Very envious. Personally, for me, I like the ritual involved with pulling shots from my La Pavoni chrome peacock. But it is certainly not for everyone.

[Rhys]

Folgers in the AM... Aroi 

[tropo]

17 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

specifically given 130 baht charbucks sweetened coffee drink or a 14 baht 7eleven sweetened coffee drink i'd choose 7eleven.   nothing about standing around or desperation.

 

at home i have a small commercial espresso machine with water mains direct connection and a grinder. also home roast ethiopian beans plus have stock of italy roasted beans also.

 

if traveling no prblem grabbing a 14 baht 7eleven coffee and bringing to my hotel room.

 

ps; despite having owned several macbooks, never once took one to starbucks

Anyone that would buy a sweetened 7Eleven coffee drink is desperate for a sugar hit, along with a good bit of fat too. Is there any real coffee in them, or is it just cheap flavouring syrup?

 

Who cares what you make at home. We're talking about visiting a coffee shop, not drinking at home or hanging out at 7Elevens.... but then you talk about your "hotel room". Do you take an espresso machine on vacation?

 

PS. I made no mention of MacBooks. That was someone else.

 

[tropo]

 

32 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Not milk.  Crema.  It's the foam made on the top of the coffee.  Not cream just coffee.  The coffee below has no cream added you can see that on the saucer. 

LOL> with all the nationalities on here botching English I thought you meant "creamer". I don't drink espresso, so I'm not sure about the "crema" situation at Starbucks. 

Edited September 13, 2018 by tropo

[Dazinoz]

On 9/12/2018 at 4:32 PM, Psimbo said:

I'd rather have a decent cup of coffee at home. Never, ever, been in a Starbucks and don't plan to.

Never, ever been to Starbucks. So how do you know not a decent cup of coffee?

 

[Dazinoz]

9 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

To make matters worse, Australia is also one of the few countries in which instant coffee consumption far outstrips that of freshly brewed coffee.

Almost 75 per cent of Australia's annual coffee consumption is instant.

It's a far cry from the "developed" coffee cultures of Italy and France, says Giuseppe Lavazza, one of the heirs to the eponymous Italian coffee empire

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/instant-gratification--the-myth-of-australias-coffee-culture-20160120-gma324.html

yep, so bad a nuclear bomb should be dropped on the Ozzies. Such an underdeveloped country.

 

[tropo]

6 minutes ago, Dazinoz said:

Never, ever been to Starbucks. So how do you know not a decent cup of coffee?

 

He's been reading all the Thaivisa forum threads about how bad Starbucks coffee is... or maybe he just freaked out when he went there and noticed the prices.

[atyclb]

48 minutes ago, tropo said:

1 hour ago, atyclb said:

 

specifically given 130 baht charbucks sweetened coffee drink or a 14 baht 7eleven sweetened coffee drink i'd choose 7eleven.   nothing about standing around or desperation.

 

at home i have a small commercial espresso machine with water mains direct connection and a grinder. also home roast ethiopian beans plus have stock of italy roasted beans also.

 

if traveling no prblem grabbing a 14 baht 7eleven coffee and bringing to my hotel room.

 

ps; despite having owned several macbooks, never once took one to starbucks

Anyone that would buy a sweetened 7Eleven coffee drink is desperate for a sugar hit, along with a good bit of fat too. Is there any real coffee in them, or is it just cheap flavouring syrup?

 

Who cares what you make at home. We're talking about visiting a coffee shop, not drinking at home or hanging out at 7Elevens.... but then you talk about your "hotel room". Do you take an espresso machine on vacation?

 

PS. I made no mention of MacBooks. That was someone else.

 

typically the 3 n 1 coffee mix contains robusta coffee. higher caffeine % than arabica and lower cost. it is powder and not syrup.

 

why would starbucks flavored milk drinks not have sugar or fat?

 

used to take a small nespresso machine in suitcase on work assignments.  nespresso espresso is much better than starbucks espresso

 

 

my macbook comment was relevant to starbucks, a component of my comments re choices

[CharlieH]

Inflammatory post removed.

[cookieqw]

2 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Inflammatory post removed.

your degree of english is laughable

 

[atyclb]

10 hours ago, Old Croc said:

11 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

75% of Australians coffee consumption is instant coffee.  Diggers got no taste buds. 

Your ignorance is astonishing and undermines any opinions you've expressed on this thread.

I'm guessing you haven't been there in decades, if at all. Perhaps not since you were kicked out of the Philippines with McArthur.

 

 

would be nice to see the source of that data before throwing insults.

 

despite seeing many coffee shops supermarkets do sell tons of instant . freeze dries, powdered coffee.

[atyclb]

1 hour ago, Dazinoz said:

On 9/12/2018 at 1:32 PM, Psimbo said:

I'd rather have a decent cup of coffee at home. Never, ever, been in a Starbucks and don't plan to.

Never, ever been to Starbucks. So how do you know not a decent cup of coffee?

 

 

logic and reason do work very well on tv. u should know that by now

[janclaes47]

1 hour ago, Dazinoz said:

Never, ever been to Starbucks. So how do you know not a decent cup of coffee?

 

Lol, you don't want to claim Starbucks sells decent coffeee.

 

What's next? McD selling decent burgers?

[atyclb]

1 hour ago, timendres said:

On 9/12/2018 at 4:27 PM, marcusarelus said:

Below are my home machine that I don't use anymore and one from my bar in SF.

Those are beautiful machines. Very envious. Personally, for me, I like the ritual involved with pulling shots from my La Pavoni chrome peacock. But it is certainly not for everyone.

 

 

i have owned 3 lever machines. first was an olympia cremina. vvery nice and compact. good shots.  second a 1950/60 faema faemina that i rebuilt. nice shots but the outside got very hot and poor water temp control.it had a big powerful piston spring and the lever was pulled down and shot extracted on the upward return of lever. then a pavoni machine that worked well also.

[LomSak27]

9 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

Why in the hell would you drink Starbucks with so many thai coffee venders on the streets.

 

9 hours ago, atyclb said:

given the choice of starbucks very overpriced flavored milk with coffee or seven eleven 14 baht sweetened milk coffee i choose seven eleven.  many seven elevens have mini coffee shops and make starbuck comparable drinks for much less.

 

10 hours ago, spike said:

  On 9/12/2018 at 3:16 PM, schlog said:

Real espresso you will find in italy. Not at Starbucks or with a Nespresso.

BTW paid last week each time about 1 Euro for my espresso in Milano.

First - excuse -  Espresso was 2.5 or more in Rome at  La Casa Del Caffè Tazza D'oro \

Sorry Schlog

 

Do you drink coffee? Look trashing Starbucks is great fun but when I see a comments like above I assume you like to trash but you do not drink coffee.

 

Lets see lets start with Wawee coffee - but a large hot latte, not my drink but, 85 Baht,  now pop the lid and look at it. Right it is 3/4 of an inch form the top or an inch. They do not fill it full - Now get a Starbucks grande cup toss it in ... ooooh, now you better toss anotherright basically a grande holds almost 2 Wawee 170 Baht - 2 wawee large hot Lattes- 

 

You can do the same for the Dixie cup sized hot latte Amazon sells at there PTT units. 3 to 4 will fill a Grande cup, now you will get an extra shot of espresso BUT

1 cup 50 baht Amazon

150-200 Baht to = Starbucks Latte Grande size

 

Both Wawee and Amazon are EASILY more expensive than Starbucks - Wow - Shock, Gasp, Horror.This is not news by the way of you actually drink coffee. Drip which I prefer is the same way - One problem with Thai coffee vendors, they will never throw away old coffee so you have a good chance of getting stale coffee if you are getting drip or press coffee. Ugh

 

oops - if you were a coffee drinker you would know ALL these things .... I assume you are not, and there is nothing wrong with that by the way    

Edited September 14, 2018 by LomSak27

[rodney earl]

Most if not all of the foreign coffee shops in thailand are too expensive for my taste. I never go there anymore. I go to my local coffee shop where a decent coffee is 35thb instead of being ripped off so they can pay for their new upmarket shop in europe somewhere. There is nothing wrong with a nice cup of tea when I am at home.!!

[Jeffrey346]

16 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

6.469 billion cups per year, that's 12,300 per minute.  You think you may be in error?  Are you another hater with no experience?  So, tell us how many kinds of Nespresso have you tried and in what kind of machine?

I have all the experience I need. In fact I have a Nespresso Machine for sale.

As stated, Nespresso is terribly over priced and their coffee quality sucks.

[rodney earl]

I am not a big coffee drinker and I certainly will not go to Starbucks when I do want to have a coffee. It is way overpriced for what you get and I enjoy a coffee at my local coffee shop a lot more for a lot less money. A fool and his money are soon parted.!!

[Dazinoz]

7 hours ago, janclaes47 said:

Lol, you don't want to claim Starbucks sells decent coffeee.

 

What's next? McD selling decent burgers?

I didn't claim their coffee was good or bad, I was saying a poster said he had never been to a Starbucks so how can he claim the coffee wasn't decent. 

[marcusarelus]

15 minutes ago, Dazinoz said:

I didn't claim their coffee was good or bad, I was saying a poster said he had never been to a Starbucks so how can he claim the coffee wasn't decent. 

On this forum that is more the rule than the exception.  No one tries anything before passing judgement.   

[marcusarelus]

24 minutes ago, Jeffrey346 said:

I have all the experience I need. In fact I have a Nespresso Machine for sale.

As stated, Nespresso is terribly over priced and their coffee quality sucks.

What kind do you have for sale?

[Dazinoz]

1 minute ago, marcusarelus said:

On this forum that is more the rule than the exception.  No one tries anything before passing judgement.   

How very true.

[Badrabbit]

Wow get over yourselves, what is this Coffee Racism!! I enjoy going to a place that is very comfortable with lovely staff that speak English, I sit there for approx 30mins with my 16oz Latte which is very nice(I do not like strong coffee, best part is the milk froth) I'm not just paying for the coffee I'm paying for service, comfortable seats where I can chill and watch the world go by, worth every bht of the 145bht price!

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[Dazinoz]

12 minutes ago, Badrabbit said:

Wow get over yourselves, what is this Coffee Racism!! I enjoy going to a place that is very comfortable with lovely staff that speak English, I sit there for approx 30mins with my 16oz Latte which is very nice(I do not like strong coffee, best part is the milk froth) I'm not just paying for the coffee I'm paying for service, comfortable seats where I can chill and watch the world go by, worth every bht of the 145bht price!

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How dare you have different likes to someone else on this forum!!!!

[fullcave]

16 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

You grind the beans and then heat up your machine and then make the coffee and throw away any leftover.  Takes Nespresso about a minute to heat up and pour a perfect espresso.  Steamed milk takes a minute.  I have 13 coffees to choose from every morning depending on my mood from beans all over the world.  How many do you have? 

Nope, you don't have any beans you have a little plastic cup. Bisphenol A (BPA) produced by running scorching hot water through that plastic cup does not enhance the flavor in the slightest (man-boobs are another issue) then you throw away the leftover plastic cup. I can throw my leftover coffee beans in the garden as fertilizer. 

 

If you are short on time, for about the same price as the Nespresso you could pick up an automated machine and use real coffee beans.

 

Of course, coffee beans are available from all over the world depending on my mood but my favorite right now is Two Volcanoes Organic Guatemala Whole Bean Dark Roast Single-Origin. Wow, makes unbelievably great coffee but unfortunately not available in the plastic cup version. ? Enjoy.

[atyclb]

1 hour ago, LomSak27 said:

First - excuse -  Espresso was 2.5 or more in Rome at  La Casa Del Caffè Tazza D'oro \

Sorry Schlog

 

 

i doubt 2.5 euros is the average price for an espresso in italy today. Below is actual data albeit 2013 .  doubt the prices increased by 250%

 

 

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/717413/average-price-of-an-espresso-at-a-bar-by-selected-city-in-italy/

[madmitch]

49 minutes ago, Badrabbit said:

Wow get over yourselves, what is this Coffee Racism!! I enjoy going to a place that is very comfortable with lovely staff that speak English, I sit there for approx 30mins with my 16oz Latte which is very nice(I do not like strong coffee, best part is the milk froth) I'm not just paying for the coffee I'm paying for service, comfortable seats where I can chill and watch the world go by, worth every bht of the 145bht price!

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Agree, and that's why coffee chains are thriving worldwide. They're a place for socialising and business meetings as well as somewhere that you can spend half an hour in your own company where you won't get branded a sad, lonely alcoholic!

 

Incidentally Costa Coffee has recently been bought by Coca Cola so I would expect branches to appear in several new countries in the not too distant future.