The specific thing you spend the most time doing instead of the actual job you’re being paid to do is your new profession. What’s your new job title?

@TheLameSauce@lemmy.world · 8M

The specific thing you spend the most time doing instead of the actual job you’re being paid to do is your new profession. What’s your new job title?

@TheBigBrother@lemmy.world · 8M

Coffee taster…

well5H1T3 · edit-2 8M

Second this, other than Starbucks, coffee is pretty crappy. Any places worth checking out will be highly appreciated

ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє · edit-2 8M

I live in a medium sized US city, and even here, StarBucks is pretty much the bottom of the barrel. Where do you live that StarBucks is the best?

Edit: Not throwing shade, genuinely curious. I had this situation in my hometown. But India is a tea-centric culture, so it’s understandable.

10_0 · edit-2 8M

Costa, or any places’ (UK) local cafe’s, you could go into the middle of nowhere and still find a cafe or freehouse

@TheBigBrother@lemmy.world · 8M

I drink homemade mixes, Starbucks it’s good also, check out YouTube for different kinds of homemade mixes there are some which taste pretty good made with instant coffee.

@Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee · 8M

Christ on a bike I wouldn’t take coffee advice from either of yous two loons

well5H1T3 · 8M

If bikes existed in that era, you best believe he would have rode one

@Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee · 8M

And he still wouldn’t have cycled to Starbucks 🤢

@tetris11@lemmy.ml · 8M

I don’t get it. Why do people like Starbucks? To me it’s bitter and granular. Compared to a Nero which is smooth and sweet.

Yet, many avid coffee drinkers I know love the taste of Starbucks. Is it a genetic thing?

Pup Biru · edit-2 7M

i’m from melbourne, australia which is one of the best places in the world for coffee… when i go to the US i try to find good coffee but our version of good tends to be VERY different

US good is a dark roast - which i find very bitter… australian coffee (and melbourne in particular) is quite a light roast, which is more acidic but less bitter

i find most good coffee in the US to be pretty undrinkable (this probably comes down to choice of preparations: black drip is pretty weak; espresso starts out strong), but a starbucks blonde is… inoffensive (note with relation to your comment: a light roast is probably what you’re talking about; especially a light double ristretto… a ristretto is a half shot, twice… the bitterness from coffee comes at the end of the shot, so nero is perhaps a light roast double ristretto… you also tend to get most of the caffeine in the first half i think? so it’s more caffeine if that worries you)

so when i’m in a rush and really just want to not hate what im putting in me, ill find a starbucks not because its good, but because its fucking hard work to find a good coffee that’s also my taste - my usual cues for a cafe just don’t work in the US, and there’s no a fantastic cafe on literally every corner so the choice is even harder

10_0 · 8M

Most of the time I just get a standard coffee and they taste the same between all cafes and coffee shops, and with standard drinks Starbucks is cheaper than Nero, but at custamizing drinks level price doesn’t matter

@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 8M

Is it a genetic thing?

Probably more of a cultural one. Like how even Americans with Scandinavian ancestry consider black liquorice taste bud poison but us Scandinavians IN Scandinavia generally can’t get enough of it 😁

ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє · 8M

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