By "Pete's" do you mean "Peet's"?

Lewis Black had it right.
Deborah | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 11:28 am | #

Deborah...whoops! Thanks for the correction. And I live in the Bay Area. URRRRGGGHHH!
kvkopf | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 11:58 am | #

Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!! They're coming!!!!
Tom Hilton | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 12:01 pm | #

I'm a former Starbucks barista, and I'm still a fan.
fiat lux | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 2:43 pm | #

Fiat Lux, you know there isn't really anything wrong with Starbucks other than their being everywhere you look. If there's a better alternative, Peet's or Caribou (in the Midwest), I'll go there. But Starbucks is usually fine.

I just like to rib the Green Giant.
Kvatch | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 5:13 pm | #

Green Giant, that's funny.
Deborah | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 5:23 pm | #

Only two Starbucks (several miles apart) appear in my routine life, and they are inoffensive to me. (I don't patronize them; I'm a longtime patron of a wonderful local outfit called the Baltimore Coffee Company, which imports its own raw coffee beans and roasts them on the premises!)

However, I recognize Starbucks for what it is: a bunch of money-addicted weasels who are terrified that there's a single dollar in this world that doesn't belong to them. Such enterprises, despite whatever peaks they may hit, typically end badly.

"Starbucks: The Smartest Guys in the Coffee Shop" … ?
Nobody in Particular | 10.28.06 - 5:06 am | #