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For the glory and the butter.
Starbucks has a lot of drinks, and just about as many food items as it does drinks, ranging from hot sandwiches to cold parfaits, topping even the fast-food goliaths in terms of variety.
But what are the best items on the ever-expanding menu? What are yours??
I usually get the donut, but I'll pick one of the others if they're out; to drink, a plain San Pellegrino or a pourover, depending on the time of day. I mostly go with this one particular friend after work, so it's usually the San Pellegrino.
I'm not a "Charrrrbucks!!! It's burrrrrrrrnnt!" shrieker, though. I bought a bag of Sulawesi on Monday, in fact. I just prefer to brew and drink coffee at home.
Wht should I pay a 75-100% premium for a product that has been shipped in frozen when I can go to the nearby bakery, or local donut shop or panaderia where I can get something that was actually made fresh?
Most of their food is not especially good, in my experience. The pumpkin cream cheese muffin is good. The banana bread and lemon pound cake and coffee cake, etc. are okay. The old fashioned glazed doughnut is fine, but Krispy Kreme and other doughnut shop glazed doughnuts are much better. The butter croissant and chocolate croissant are good.
I don't see it on the list, but they used to have grilled cheese. It was terrible! I honestly think it was microwaved, not grilled. I haven't liked any of their breakfast or lunch sandwiches that I have tried - I think because they are (I suspect) microwaved and microwaved bread just isn't very good.
The old fashioned glazed doughnut is fine, but Krispy Kreme and other doughnut shop glazed doughnuts are much better.
I like the Starbucks donut because it is a cake donut, which I like much more than yeast donuts. And I don't find them very often. They may have them at DD, but Starbucks stores are more plentiful here. As for Krispy Kreme, the cake donut is all I ever bought, but they flamed out here as quickly as they flamed in.
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I've never had a food item at Starbucks. I've probably had one of their coffee drinks 3 times while waiting at the airport for an early morning departure.
Wht should I pay a 75-100% premium for a product that has been shipped in frozen when I can go to the nearby bakery, or local donut shop or panaderia where I can get something that was actually made fresh?
Cause there's not a panaderia in my office building. Or the hotels I stay at, or the airport, or...
I usually get the donut, but I'll pick one of the others if they're out; to drink, a plain San Pellegrino or a pourover, depending on the time of day. I mostly go with this one particular friend after work, so it's usually the San Pellegrino.
I'm not a "Charrrrbucks!!! It's burrrrrrrrnnt!" shrieker, though. I bought a bag of Sulawesi on Monday, in fact. I just prefer to brew and drink coffee at home.
I love the glazed donut. I ordered one microwaved every time I went to Starbucks for years. Imagine my surprise the last time I went in. I ordered the donut, asked the barista to warm it up in the microwave, and he refused, citing "employee safety concerns." With them not filling up the drink cups and now not microwaving my pastries all in the name of "safety," I believe Starbucks is no longer a coffee shop, but a daycare in pretentious disguise
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