Worst coffee award goes to: Dunkin' Donuts

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(Dan that was my point!!!!!!!) (Also TENUOUS was the word I wanted not TRECHEROUS)

Anyway I lived out west also and have never heard of this abomination but I never really frequented Starbucks til I moved back east and lived pretty much next door or above multiple Starbucks. Still it doesn't make sense, "West Coast" cafe au lait and "East Cost" cafe au lait. It's like Hellman's v Best Foods, wtf they're the same goddamn thing.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I actually think I threw and East Coast gang sign at him and derided his California-ness.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

...threw AN East Coast gang sign...

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahaha now THAT would fall squarely into the category of "awesome responses".

― Dan ("Misto THIS, Bitch! EAST SIIIIIIIIIIDE!") Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

my girlfriend loves to order cafe au lait, but no starbucks ever seems to have it on the menu (tho they will make it). I'm going to have to ask her about this misto crap.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Thank you, Dan. It seems we have an accord.

Cafe Au Lait, bitches. REPRESENT!!!! (throws oddly contorted hand gesture at computer screen)

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

at my favorite new coffee place here on the island, *Beetlebung*, my fave iced coffee drink is called a *BUNG-O-CINO*!!! I LOVE ordering it. ONe Bungochino please! I haven't had the guts to say it like Beavis yet, though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Scott, we weep. You simply must do this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

FWIW I have very very rarely heard anyone order or even say "café au lait" on the East Coast. It's just a coffee, isn't it, and you add your own damn milk. You want the milk heated up for you, you got the wrong store pal.

xpost Scott oh my god.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Scott, the next time you go there you should dress up as Bernardo's best friend from "West Side Story" and ask them for your bung.

― Dan (Theatre Humor) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll admit that it is not a commonly ordered drink. But it is much easier than a latte - half coffee, half milk that is waiting for a latte to be made, and DONE!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah Tracer is OTM, I mean it really just is coffee and milk but of course THAT IS WHAT THE TERMINOLOGY MEANS so it's hardly a surprise.

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

I like how we're all such preening ninnies.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the "misto" is one of those officially unofficial "off-menu" drinks at Starbucks. Like the "short cappucino" that they wrote up recently on Slate.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I revel in my preening and my ninnyness.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

O.Nate - Like animal style at In-N-Out?

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I prefer the term "fancy boy"

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Alright. I'm gonna go order a cafe au lait on the way to school.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm drinking hazelnut coffee. From a korean deli. MANLY.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not familiar with the "animal style" - it's been a while since I've been to an In N Out.

A quick Google on "starbucks misto" turns up a lot of references which indicates that it is indeed the preferred Starbucks terminology - and some people who dispute that it is really the same drink as a cafe au lait.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Ally, I think the general cultural consensus states that it's okay if you aren't manly!

― Dan (Paragraph 48, Subsection 15B) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha okay, I hadn't read the details of the Great Au Lait Controversy but now that I have that's got to be maybe the cuntiest correction ever. Did you flip your Raybans down, angrily sling your tennis racket over your shoulder and storm out to your Acura SUV aftwards, Hurting?

-- Dan ("Come, Muffy; These Cads Don't DESERVE Our Custom!") Perry (djperry@gmail.com), March 14th, 2006.

That wasn't me!!!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

haha yes Shaggy that has been determined

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/Aaron123/megasXLR/Scooby%20Doo/Zoinks--small.png

― Dan (Zoinks!!!) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i think some of the worst coffee i've ever had is at gas station mini-marts that sell "flavored" coffees like hazelnut and it's just some noxious oil that they throw in with the regular mud. oof.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

the new adventures of old christine would totally have an episode where christine orders a cafe au lait at starbucks.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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