this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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I’ll just make it at home. Fuck them.
I know, right?
When I go to Starbucks I get stale beans that have been roasted badly in industrial roasters. The best I can say for Starbucks coffee is "it's better than grocery store coffee". And that's an alarmingly low bar. There's a reason why people rarely drink just coffee at Starbucks, I think.
At home I get a lovely "Yunnan Red Wine Sun-Dried" SOE coffee roasted at the precise point I like best delivered to me twice a month in batches that match basically exactly how much I use for my daily cup over that period. I happen to have a package coming in, so the price is readily visible on my shopping app: 46RMB. That's 46RMB for a two-week daily supply. A single "Tall" (within 10ml of the size I drink at home) cup of "fresh-brewed coffee" at a local Starbucks gives a lower grade of coffee (by far!) for 22-25RMB (depending on the coffee selected). That means in 2-3 days the price exceeds a 15-day supply of a far superior coffee.
So agreed. Fuck 'em. Even before they introduce this idiot idea of an LLMbecile chatbot to make suggestions.