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In the last 20 years I've had less than 5 cups of Starbucks in their stores. I do occasionally buy their beans to grind in my Breville at home. Imagine how much I've saved by not patronizing their stores!

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Re: DO YOU LIKE STARBUCKS?

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CHARBUCKS!

Burnt coffee  ALL. THE. TIME.

I am a huge coffee lover and avoid Charbucks at all costs. Over-priced and just plain bad coffee.

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Love Starbucks but don't love the prices so I don't usually stop by for my everyday hot coffee fix. However, their specialty drinks are incredible. My favorite coffee drink at the moment is the Iced Brown Sugar Oat Milk Shaken Espresso which is blonde roasted espresso, brown sugar and cinnamon w/ oat milk.

 

Iced Shaken Espresso

 

 

The new frozen lemonade refreshers are exactly that...so refreshing on a hot summer day and they come in three flavors...Frozen Mango Dragonfruit, Pineapple Passionfruit, and Strawberry Acai. 

 

Starbucks' New Summer Drinks Are Like Frozen Lemonades, But Better

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I have never been in a Starbucks store.

 

I was always driving with not a minute to spare, when I was driving to work and would pass them.

But I found out that I LIKE the mocha frappuccino that Sam's Club sells in bottles. Then we discovered a mocha drink of some sort, in cans, when we were driving to Florida. We needed a caffeine boost.

 

We thought it was quite tasty and buy it on occasion. 

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Registered: ‎03-11-2010

McDonald's for us.  Starbucks coffee is too strong for us.  

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yes, i really enjoy starbucks. i do appreciate their drive thru!  i will buy their bagged coffee for my french press. when i go there i almost always get a venti hot caramel macchiato, two extra shots, toffee nut syrup instead of the vanilla.

 

my mom loves their lemon loaf so i get her a piece of that.

my daughter is there almost daily before work.

 

my mom will ONLY use the starbucks sumatra k cups.

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I despise Starbucks. I don't drink anything but just real coffee or an Americano, all the coffee drinks are way too sweet for my system. I've

always shook my head in disbelief on how hey stay in business. IMO their coffee is atrocious! 

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just a note to those who dont know......

 

yes, they have plain regular coffees to choose from.

yes, they have various plain hot and cold teas to choose from.

not everything is filled with sugar and they do have many sugar free and dairy free options.

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Re: DO YOU LIKE STARBUCKS?

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I love the Caramel Frappuccino! I make one at home that's similar with less calories and not as sweet. It comes out great using my Vitamix or Ninja Storm! For those interested, here's the recipe:    3/4 C Milk, 1/8 tsp salt, 1 tsp instant coffee (any will work), 2Tbls Caramel sauce (the kind for ice cream), & 1 1/2 C ice. Blend well, until all ice is blended. You can use any flavor of ice cream sauce. 

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@sunshine45 wrote:

yes, i really enjoy starbucks. i do appreciate their drive thru!  i will buy their bagged coffee for my french press. when i go there i almost always get a venti hot caramel macchiato, two extra shots, toffee nut syrup instead of the vanilla.

 

my mom loves their lemon loaf so i get her a piece of that.

my daughter is there almost daily before work.

 

my mom will ONLY use the starbucks sumatra k cups.


@sunshine45   Like your mom, I LOVE their lemon loaf too!  I try to stay away from those when I do go.  It's Sweet Sam's Iced Lemon Loaf.  QVC used to carry Sweet Sam's for a short time.