About ten years ago I had my first Starbucks coffee when I was working in Chicago. Being a coffee drinker I thought I had died and gone to heaven! A cup of coffee that actually tasted like coffee! Not that I really knew what a burnt bean coffee should taste like...but once I tasted it, I was hooked. So I started ordering coffee from Starbucks and having it sent to my Nashville home for a year or two before Starbucks finally opened their first store here.Now sitting this morning with my French Roast (burnt bean prepared) Starbucks coffee is the only way I can start a day. But I'm thinking...If I had been wise ten years ago I would have bought stock in this company that burns coffee beans. I should have understood that millions of millions of people out there would go to the burnt bean company for their daily kick. What was I thinking? Instead, I just spent hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of dollars enjoying my morning, afternoon, and evening drink that I pay for and know that the only return I get for drinking it is a few extra trips to the john. Stupid.
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You just never know. Mark Twain was, I believe, once invited to invest in this new-fangled contraption called a telephone. But he thought it was a stupid idea and walked away from the investment.
I also like the darker roast, or burnt if you rather, but it sure is sad to have to pay $2.00 for a medium size cup up "North" here.
I bet Mark Twain kicked himself a few times over his remaining years!
$2.00 for a cup of coffee up north?! I'm paying $2.50...but so willing to pay for burnt bean coffee! Yes...they really do burn their beans. That's why it's so dang good!
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