New hope found in a drink.

You can make basically the same drink at your home with
-skim milk
-raspberry syrup
-ice
-cream (Or Ice Cream)
-chocolate syrup
-espresso
Really, I used to work at a Barnes & Noble Cafe and that is exactly how they made it.

and the good part is that you won't have to pay $4.15 everytime you want one. Who knows? You might get crazy and add some real fruit fro some actual nutritional value.
~All I ever wanted was to be your spine~

Thanks Pelican. I have always been turned off by Starbuck's labor practices, the homoginizig effect of the chain's ubiquity, not to to mention the way they drive independent cafes out of business... I didn't realize they had introduced a MIRACULOUSLY AMAZING NEW RASPBERRY MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO! I'm gonna look in my couch cushions for six bucks right now and get myself a big one of those.
You're a brave person to voice your support of this much maligned franchise here. Yuppies all over the world are joining their voices with you to say "We're not gonna take you bad mouthing our shitty over priced coffee anymore!"

Someday when I am not so lazy and bereft with pain, I am going to extend Habermas'Public Sphere theory (as it developed through Salons and Coffee Houses) to demonstrate how Starbucks manipulated the location of "idealized bougie, political discourse", turning that space into a safe corporate hegemon. Thus, extending the personification of political consenus and conformity. The warm familiarity that encourages and sustains brand fidelity creeps into physical location, itself becoming a commodity to be consumed. (How are Starbucks designed to encourage specific activities, technologies, and discussions?)

At least the Starbucks corporation provides a valuable service by providing me with a place to take a dump. When I don't have a public library handy.

Starbucks as heaven when I go to a goddam shopping mall and there is a sign right out front that says, "A Starbucks inside every store!" or some bullshit like that, or just walking down the street in LA and I turn a corner and there's a Starbucks and what's on the other side of the street? A Starbucks.

People still go to shopping malls?

You should consider yourself lucky to be surrounded by so many heavenly coffee shops! I don't have a single Starbucks near me, which makes things very difficult when I need to poop.

I think that is considered a beverage rather than a drink.

Love. You.

Bad Brains' next record is going to be on the Starbucks label.

Is that all one has to do to win Nora's love?

Pffft. I could make up that jabber he's spewing. Don't let him fool you with his "big" words, Nora. He doesn't care about you. All he cares about is Mark E. Smith.

I hate starbucks, but I have to admit that I love the coffee. All the same, the nearest starbucks is a 5 and a half hour drive away from here. Any of you Americans ever hear of Tim Hortons?

Habermas is a modernist!

It's all cheap, gaudy chick-bait to me.

I never liked the prices of starbucks or the way they have done some things. It was a crazy feeling i had when it happened. What are the odds that when i walk by a starbucks (which i seldom do, their arnt that many where i live) and see a sighn for a new flavor of drink that im craving at that moment. It was starbucks that inspired me to start playing mad coffee chemist. Or the frappachino to be spicific.

you know what really impresses the chicks?

My rant about how James Joyce's Ulysses is, in part, in part mind you, a rewriting of Dante's Divine Comedia. That, little ensemble, makes the panties DRRRRRRRop.

after reading this I started to get a creepy feeling that the Onion just writes fake news so it can gain an audience for impotant news stories such as this:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28657
~All I ever wanted was to be your spine~

Bundt cake and cheap wine. That's how to woo a lady proper.

Rasp berry is nasty nasty gross. You know what goes well together? Chocolate and chili. Coffee doesn't sound like it could foul up the mix. There should be more chili mocha drinks at Starbucks.

Sooo, what are you doing tonite, har har?

Yeah, we have Tim Horton's here in Detroit, but we're only 10 minutes from the border, so we're like a suburb of Windsor.

Everyone can say what they want about Starbucks, but their coffee is good. I don't go to the stores (other than to buy beans) but it's all I make at home.

If on the rare occasion I do go to a coffee shop, I do go to Starbucks over many of our local coffeehouses. Why? At Starbucks you get decent service, instead of waiting 20 minutes to get coffee from some dreadlocked hipster at the local coffee house who is chatting with his friends and wrapped up in how hip and indie he is because he works for said independant coffee house.

Granted, they're not all like that, but a ton of them are. And they don't last.

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I thought tim hortons was a Canadian thing...I'm so confused........

Detroit might be the only place they've bled across the border.

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No, you can find Tim Hortons throughout the northeastern US. They became a multinational in the 1990s, right about the same time Irving crossed the border with their gas stations.

Did you know that they don't even make the doughnuts in-store at Tim Hortons? Luckily you can watch the whole process at a Krispy Kreme. And that is a damn fine doughnut. Do-nut, aaaaaghhhh.