ErisCaffee, 8 months ago

@ZachWeinersmith That's a heck of an insult to Starbucks.

erwan, 8 months ago

@ZachWeinersmith to be honest, the "coffee shop culture" that Starbucks is the industrial version of comes from Australia rather than Europe.

Nobody used to drink those huge mostly milk drinks before Starbucks and others imported it.

maxwainwright, 8 months ago

@ZachWeinersmith does Starbucks even exist outside airports in Europe?

Upbeat_Beatdown, 8 months ago

@ZachWeinersmith Also they both keep my bowels flowing rapidly

venite, 8 months ago

@ZachWeinersmith Hold on. European? Here in Europe we think it's American coffee. (Which is to say: hardly coffee at all.)

georgepotter, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

@ZachWeinersmith

"Hold my beer" says England, looking at a nice Indian curry.

mabeledo, 8 months ago

@ZachWeinersmith I don’t think this is true, though. Taco Bell is generally quite cheap. Starbucks is expensive for what it is. In Europe, the gap is even wider, with Taco Bell still cheap but Starbucks quite more expensive than any other alternative.

FeralRobots, 8 months ago

@ZachWeinersmith
What Taco Bell & Starbucks have in common is that they've convinced a couple generations of Americans that something (ersatz Mexican food & horrible burnt overpriced coffee) is representative of [food in Mexico / coffee in Europe] & I'm not really sure how I get anything at all positive out of that.

gsuberland, 8 months ago

@FeralRobots @ZachWeinersmith they've opened a chain of Taco Bells in the UK and the food is an order of magnitude more miserable than any of the pallid muck Britain became notorious for boiling to death in the 90s.