[lbo-talk] jim on coffee

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Jul 6 15:36:26 PDT 2006


I am grateful to Starbucks for one thing: that when you get fifty miles or more from a major city, it is still possible to find something approaching a cup of coffee.

In the cities themselves, it's a diff story.

J.

Liza Featherstone wrote:


> Actually I agree with Jim -- I myself don't like the Starbucks coffee
> that much, and I think they do rely heavily on our primitive
> yearnings for foamy milk. But I used the example because of its
> effect on the market and the culture. That is, I think a lot of
> people do think Starbucks is good, and I think it has made fancy
> coffee consumption more mainstream, and more discriminating.
>
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