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[–] bazinga@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Calling the stuff you buy at Starbucks coffee? What they sell is all sorts of sugar in a cup. This is not a coffee place, it is a diabetes hole.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

you are allowed to get a black coffee

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Which statistically is likely the least selling menu item at a Starbucks and probably also tastes like shit

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago

The most over roasted slop around, sure. There's a reason why that place serves pure diabetes, their black coffee is kinda gross.

maybe the coffee is gross so that it can pair with the diabetes. That much sugar needs a very strong flavor to offset it.

Or Starbucks just uses the absolute cheapest beans on the market and then burns them for that truly consistent char flavor, which they then have to turn into diabetes to make palatable.

Either way, it's just not good.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No one does that though, because Starbucks coffee is terrible. It’s over-roasted charcoal crap. If you order a black coffee, do yourself a favour and get a nice, light-roasted pour over from an independent cafe serving locally roasted, single-origin coffee. Good coffee should smell like a mix of dried fruit, floral perfume, and toasted nuts, not burnt rubber.

[–] ChokingHazard@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Listen man, I get it, you don’t like dark roasts but you don’t have to yuck other peoples yums. Could they get a better one than at Starbucks? Sure. Is there anything wrong with a nice dark roast? No.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

That wasn't about dark roasts, that was about Starbucks' coffee and roast. There's a big difference. Starbucks goes darker than most specialty roasters' dark roasts.

Also, "burnt rubber" notes often come from robusta coffee. Robusta is cheap, easy to grow, and has a long shelf life. The darker it's roasted, the less it tastes like burnt rubber[^1]. But Starbucks claims that they use 100% arabica. If true, then it's almost impressive that they made it taste like that.

[^1]: There are some amazing, exceptional robustas, but you won't find them in commodity coffee or Starbucks

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They do have light and medium roasts, too. I'm not saying their coffee is great, but it's not all burnt either.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes, and all of their roast levels are darker than what you'd get from most specialty roasters

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

I buy dark roasts from a local coffee roaster in my city. They don’t have any fruit or floral notes, but they taste like dark chocolate, not burnt rubber. They’re good dark roasts. Starbucks is still crap. It only tastes good in a giant cup of milk and sugar and caramel sauce.

[–] CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

If you pay 9$ for that it will just make you sad. Let them pour some sugar milk foam in it so at least you don't know that you are drinking burnt mediocre coffee.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 1 points 53 minutes ago

you're talkin to a guy who dumps instant coffee into cold water. starbucks cold brew black is at least vaguely ok. plus its way less expensive to get it without all the fixins. and yes, still infinitely more expensive than brewing your bean water yourself

I don't know, mediocre is a stretch.