Worst coffee award goes to: Dunkin' Donuts

that said, their iced blueberry coffee is a real treat!

such crappy coffee, why does everyone love it?

not much flavor, tho.

Weird, this is the almost the same way I drink my coffee.

The coffee I don't like is Starbucks, if you try drinking it black or near black it has this ashy, burnt quality. I think they depend on people pouring tons of sugar, cream etc. to make their coffee palatable.

i second this emotion.

"The coffee I don't like is Starbucks"

and this one. burnt overroasted beans gross me out.

My response? "No. Its a French name for it. Misto is the Starbucks name for it. You're trying to brand cafe au lait? Seriously?"

He acted very offended. Whatever. I worked at a real coffee place, and I speak French (or at least used to). Its a fucking cafe au lait.

Whatever. I still call bullshit. Fuck the 'Buck.

DD is also not even that cheap -- usually $1 for a small, which is considerably smaller than a Starbucks small.

As for Starbucks, I really really can taste the difference between their blends to the point that I'll only order if they're brewing House or one of a couple others. Those are the only ones that don't have that nasty tang.

One thing I will say for DD, their latte drinks are very good.

i was in toscana for 3 weeks and people still called it cafe au lait, so i think you should stay strong with your au lait loyalties.

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Offended? I would've kicked you out for being a god damn retard.

I don't think that "tang" is much of a mystery.

"Can I have a Large Cafe Au Lait?"

"You mean a Venti Misto?"

"When the fuck did we get to Italy? See that BIIIIIG cup over there? Fill it up half way with coffee and then fill the other half up with steamed milk. Whatever you want to call it, go ahead."

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A cafe au lait is a cafe au lait. If I walked into the local coffe shop and ordered a misto, they'd look at me with a quizzical expression and say "Excuse me? What's in it, and we'll try to make it for you." The same results would not happen with use of the term "cafe au lait."

Don't over-brand shit by coopting a relatively obscure term for something that is called the same thing everywhere else in America.

Its like a person who has visited a foreign country and suddenly starts calling things "flats" or "pubs" instead of "apartments" or "bars."

LAMEASHELL

I will believe you that he was being a cunt, but you could be wrong, too.

(xpost: I don't know your life but there's a pretty big gulf between an "apartment" and a "bar". Hee.)

a couple of the winchell's over here have turned into 'kin 'nuts

dunno where you are uh oh but i know they've entered the mid-south. i don't know how far west they go or how far south.

we don't have any good donut chains in california, that i'm aware of

tim hudson's?

wait, he's a baseball player. tim horton's was the donut chain.

LA

they're in texas, i remember being surprised at that too. fucking a i need to find some tobacco. later gators.

I remember Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles as a kid, but it looked like it either tried and failed immediately, or it was once doing alright and was dying by the time I was old enough to notice.

This was in the late 70s, btw.

I kinda equate Dunkin' Donuts with Pioneer Chicken for the same reason.

If you have a Dunkin' Donuts near you, is it a location that still makes donuts in-store or do they truck them in from some other location? Because all the ones around here do the latter now. I just had one that was probably 4 days old, but I'm not driving back to store to demand my 89¢ refund.

Krispy Kreme's always been better, anyway.

There used to be DDs in Uk.

Count your blessings.

I guess the donuts are still good when you get them fresh, but Dunkin' Donuts clearly doesn't consider that their main menu item anymore. Should just shorten the name to Dunkin' and get it over with.

The only reason I go there now is to get the 1lb bags of coffee beans for my dad, anyway. But I thought I'd pick up a couple donuts tonight and they were hard, flavorless and a waste of money.

Krispy Kreme is touting their new coffees -- anyone tried them? I like their donuts enough that I might at least consider stopping by one if the coffee is good, although I think the only remaining NYC location is Penn Station?

I had to buy a box of coffee for a party and thought to myself, "I could spend a little more and get Starbucks...eh, but America Runs on Dunkin." That is the most fucking brilliant slogan ever.

tim hortons is the worst shit iirc

Starbucks is shittier than Dunkin dollar for dollar anyway. Dunkin's espresso drinks are ok and cheap and their coffee is innocuous at worst.

i eschew starbucks for tim horton's because they're both bad but tim's is not twice as bad, and is less than half the price

there's a certain genre of coffee drinker that seeks out dunkins (ok in isolation) and claim that they only drink "good" coffee (also ok in isolation), but those two things should never go together

jim in vancouver, what if i told you that i could provide you coffee that is 2% as good as starbucks, at only 1% of the price? because i know this guy down the alley who does funny things with old grounds and i get wholesale prices

only problem is the constant diarrhea, 94/7

im in

i should note that my preference is bougie third wave coffee places that do pour over but i don't have the time for that on my 15 minute morning break

same. it's probably bad for my "career" prospects or whatever, but i prioritize making coffee at home (nothing fancy, just a press pot) even if it makes me late to work

McDonald’s has the best of the cheap coffee options imo

was my grandmother's favourite coffee outlet

agree on McD's, I rep for their coffee

If I am out and get coffee (which I rarely do) I would pick DD over anything else. I only order ice coffee black in all kinds of weather so it's the best option for the price.

what kind of country do we live in if people prefer to grab coffee at a big chain rather than the cheap, local coffee shop, which is so widespread in most major cities

america runs on dunkin

it doesn't, though

but...america runs on dunkin

*looks around for corporate support*

im not in your country but I'm in a reasonably large city, downtown, and there is no cheap coffee anywhere near where i am other than at chain places

tim hortons is the worst shit iirc

aiui a Brazilian holding company that owns Burger King bought Tim Hortons and switched coffee supplier to a shittier one

so the old supplier convinced McDonalds to switch to them

There is no cheap local coffee shop in most cities. Definitely not NYC. All the small interesting ones eventually got completely branded/chained out. I could get an anthora coffee but I really like my coffee cold.

I remember a caller on the Answer Me This podcast asking where they could get Dunkin Donuts coffee in the UK as they had developed a taste for it when on holiday in Florida, the hosts response was basically "have you tried any other non-instant coffee before? We think maybe you haven't."

also the franchised dunkins here usually have south asian owners/workers and I would rather tip them.

i can assure you there are, just not in financial districts, rich neighborhoods or around highly touristy areas

I live in Queens and most of the coffee ships around me became brooklynified already (considering I moved here from wburg). Even in south american where I live part time, a lot of places are getting complicated with their coffee.

just not in financial districts, rich neighborhoods or around highly touristy areas

you just described 92% of manhattan.

sure whats cheap

well, that's sad

i've lived in a major american city my whole life and i have usually found $1 coffee from a donut shop or deli, which are sometimes run by immigrant families

obviously, most cities do not operate like manhattan

Yeah, I don't like hot coffee so that's my thing re: the anthora/deli types of coffee. I also typically don't buy coffee out anyway unless I want to go for a walk during work or am traveling. Any dedicated coffee shop, and ice coffee black can be $4-$6 for a relatively small size.

I kind of feel like prices are similar in all coastal US cities, Philly, London etc.

it depends on the type of coffee you're talking about and the type of establishment that's serving it

there are cheaper options than dunkin' donuts, though, which is what you initially said you opted for

for ice coffee dunkin is cheap and prevalent and fast. I remember once being in montreal and making a plan to go to this supposedly amazing coffee shop a little out of our way. We finally made it there and realized they used the same coffee brand that had a shop in our neighborhood back home.

I probably have the american problem of wanting a big gulp size of coffee too.

Ordered the “Dunkin midnight” and it’s the strongest coffee I’ve had in years

1/3 of the cup is milk and it’s still a dark brown color overall

Jealous. Was excited they opened one here but they don't use the same coffee.