Worst coffee award goes to: Dunkin' Donuts

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ugh gas station mini-mart coffee is full of oil whether or not it is flavored. YIKES

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

PS Googling for that picture I posted led me here: http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/scoobyvan/Main.html

― Dan (Someone Call This Man A Doctor) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i have to agree with scott, this stuff tastes foul, acidic, and rancid. its so bad. its like air freshener that gives your poop a nice complex, flowery bouquet.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

In some places this drink would be called "cafe con leche" I think.

-- o. nate (syne_wav...), March 14th, 2006.

A local coffeeshop owner told me that Cafe Con Leche is made with condensed milk, but that might just be the way she makes it. Dunno. But Jersey City does have a ton of places that serve it due to the sizeable Cuban population, so she may know what she's talking about. In any case, good espresso + steamed condensed milk = fucking amazing.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I think there are different ways to make cafe con leche - like there are different ways to make cafe au lait. Some people use drip coffee, some use espresso. Some use regular milk, some use cream or condensed milk. I think the basic common denominator is some form of coffee mixed with some form of steamed milk product.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/test/starbucks.jpg

― Spink, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't get it. Is Starbucks somehow implicated in Rwandan genocide?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

(though I guess even the "steamed" part is contested, because some recipes maintain that cafe au lait should be made with scalded - not steamed - milk)

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11625229/

― Spink, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

That article doesn't answer my question.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Or rather, I might ask how exactly does Starbucks buying coffee from Rwandan farmers implicate them in genocide?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Lady, if you have to ask...

― Dan (I Have To Ask, Too) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

It doesnt. Fark went on a photoshop tangent after that news broke.

― Spink, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you people think he made the fucking .gif or something?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Im the outlandish racist remember?

AND Republican!

Gogo globalization.

― Spink, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

apparently my girlfriend has capitulated and has been ordering "mistos" for a while now.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

If Starbucks were the only option (as it often is) and you don't want to deal with the condescension/over-branding, I guess I would have capitulated as well.

Luckily, I have other options than the 'Buck.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

A couple of years ago, I was in my hometown in the States, saw that there was a new coffeeshop downtown, went in and ordered an espresso macchiato -- the manager asked, "Sir, have you had our macchiato before? It's not like Starbuck's -- it's just espresso with foamed milk on top." "Right," I answered, "it's an espresso macchiato." He smiled hugely and asked me if I lived in Europe, then grandly offered to put my drink in a non-styrofoam cup.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Starbucks is basically a last resort, and Dunkin Donuts is a last resort when there's no Starbucks.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

has anyone ever been to the DD test store in rhode island?

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, there's a fucking .gif?

― Dan (GIF) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

From the above graphic shown, are we to conclude that Rwandan Blend coffee contains human flesh?

As an owner of a gargantuan corporation, I would like to know what benefits this coffee may have for my collective organisational unit.

― Ron Dennis, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

has anyone ever been to the DD test store in rhode island?

I don't think so - where is it? I've been to a lot of DD in Rhode Island but mostly college hill, fox point, downcity in Providence & then out in East Providence.

Dunkin Donuts coffee is amazingly good if you just buy a bag of the coffee beans, grind them yourself and make it fresh w/no cream or sugar.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I am at the point where I no longer trust any kind of coffee from anywhere, like those who salt food before tasting, I demand hazelnut, vanilla or caramel be added and loads of whole milk, only then can I be comfortable that I'm not throwing away my money on diluted battery acid that I'm going to throw away after 5 sips.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

It's like I'm in the fucking 17th century of coffee, here, everything available to me besides the instant espresso in the pantry at home is so reliably shit that I've turned into a coffee pussy, I'm actually afraid to drink stuff that isn't polluted by gallons of milk and syrup anymore, like some old lady refusing to eat meat that hasn't been overdone and salted to death because with moisture comes disease.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

You cannot reliably get a good cup of plain black coffee ANYWHERE in this city, Tom. Although Murky Coffee was fairly decent, I give them a pass. If you want a good cup of coffee, you kind of have to make it yourself. Usually I get the Eight O'Clock Colombian beans and grind them at home, I had a little French press that made excellent coffee but I've misplaced it..

Right now I'm drinking a cup from the work coffeemaker and it's horrendous.. milk & sugar wouldn't help, they'd just make the coffee breath phenomenon worse.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Not even the Krispy Kreme @ Dupont? I tend to like KK coffee.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

coffee snobs = people too lazy to be wine snobs

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I just don't like bad coffee. Or bad food, or bad wine. Simple!

FYI if anyone DOES want a cup of that burnt Starbucks blend, they're giving out free cups until noon today. I don't know why, exactly.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Don, OTM.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

love ya darla, but the next step is declaring that there's such a thing as bad pizza. And that slippery slope leads to declaring that there's such a thing as bad sex.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

So - bad coffee = kissing your sister?

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

not with that breath you dont'!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah but if you don't already think there is such a thing as bad pizza or bad sex, your standards are appallingly low.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Or, you're a very lucky person.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Liking some things and not others is a sign that you're at least European and possibly gay.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Roger Ebert comes to mind, for example.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sorry.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

exceptions don't make the rule. anchovies and fake orgasms,for example. not saying there's no such thing, just putting it into context.

and that context is that DD coffee isn't so bad, unless you are a coffee snob.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

How can you manage to be kind of quietly infuriating about a even topic like coffee, dude.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

hahah tracer otm.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

the prototype store is in Pawtucket.

they showed it on the phantom gourmet show in Boston. it's all warm muted browns and reds, made to look like a cross between panera and starbucks i think. they sell paninis and big soft cookies and all sorts of amazing looking test crap

as well as looking like they're brewing good coffee for once.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

tracer so so otm actually.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Vote from person who has not read thread: it's very smooth and buttery and not-too-bitter and not-too-acidic, and so yes, it goes well with milk and sugar to create a really un-harsh, creamy cup of coffee. I think that's generally a good thing -- it's like comfort coffee, fuzzy-blanket coffee. It never tastes too watery to me; usually I get that watery sense more from strong, acidic coffee, which can seem thin and lacking in body. Dunkin coffee is very, umm, round, and full. Perhaps Rubenesque. I like it. And on the goes-with-sugar front, keep in mind that this coffee was originally developed for sale at a donut shop.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

hey nabisco, do you add sugar and cream before you even TASTE it black first?

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh for christ's sake.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i think we need to know.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

How can you manage to be kind of quietly infuriating about a even topic like coffee, dude.

Allzay, if I knew it was this easy to yank your chain, I'd be tempted to do it a lot more often. Keep that in mind when you start a thread called "Worst pizza award goes to: Pizza Hut" or "Worst sex award goes to: losing my virginity"

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder when Momus is going to come profer his opinion.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Worst sex: The roommate/Trucker Cap sex Gear witnessed on his couch.

Easily.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

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