There’s no need descend to such hyperbolic depths, there are plenty of factually accurate complaints against the company and their product.
It’s not even coffee. It’s artificial sweeteners with a bit of sugar and some more sweeteners.
Soggy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
daddy32@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Really? I wouldn’t call it coffee either, in a sense that the coffee beans are not the most important ingredient of the drinks, in either taste or volume…
Soggy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They sell that. They also sell tea and milkshakes, but you can go into any Starbucks and get a cup of drip coffee, or an espresso, or cold brew, or a mocha. But people like the sweet drinks and Starbucks is happy to oblige.
They roast their beans too dark because they care more about consistency than subtlety or complexity, their anti-union pushes are bad for workers, they displaced a load of small coffee shops (I have seen significant rebound, but that might just be my region), there’s this new “supercommuter” nonsense.
Pointing at a Frappuccino and saying “they don’t even sell coffee!” has no negative impact on their brand or business, it’s a transparently pointless claim to the general public, and it distracts from the very real problems Starbucks has.
PeroBasta@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well, I take their cold brew every once in a while (where I live is basically the only place that does it) and it’s quite good. I take it with no sugar, only ice.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Mostly real sugar isn’t it? I always viewed Starbucks as kind of an adult breast milk. Sweet warm milk with a little stimulant to keep from crying on the way to work.