{"id":783,"date":"2009-08-08T13:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T20:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2009-08-08T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T20:28:04","slug":"seattle-starbucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Seattle – Starbucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how sometimes when you go to “the source”, food and drink tastes better?\u00a0 You know, like going to a farm and getting fresh cut vegetables? Or to a micro-brewery?\u00a0 Or to Evian, France? \u00a0 Well, I wondered if the same might be true for Starbucks locations in Seattle?\u00a0 It’s 6AM, nothing else is open, so I wandered into a Starbucks,\u00a0 ordered a Pike’s Market Roast (saving room for cream) and I wanted a toasted bagel, and the woman behind the counter said they only had “#$)(*#$”\u00a0 (unintelligible), which she went on to explain where “cheese and garlic.”\u00a0\u00a0 I asked if the that was two things or one?\u00a0\u00a0 She said they were combined, so I ordered one with a light schmear, and went to wash my hands while waiting for my order.\u00a0\u00a0 I asked where the washroom was, and the clerk pointed, and told me the secret code to get in the door.\u00a0 (Spoiler, it was 22334).<\/p>\n

Apparently they hand the code out willy-nilly, because much like my home town Starbucks, there was a homeless guy bathing in the sink.<\/p>\n

Exiting, I watched them prepare my bagel, I doctored up my coffee, and read the napkin\u00a0 – “Real Food, Simply Delicious,”\u00a0 it said, and went on to explain that Starbucks has removed the artificial trans-fats, artificial flavors, artificial dyes, and high-fructose corn syrup from their food.\u00a0 “Now your food not only tastes better, it is better,”\u00a0\u00a0 they went on to say.<\/p>\n

I pondered this while I watched the counter person take my frozen bagel from a bag of six, toast it, and slip it into a bag with a mini-plastic tub of Kraft Philly Cream Cheese.<\/p>\n

Must have been some other “real food” the napkin was talking about.<\/p>\n

And no, Starbuck’s Coffee doesn’t taste any better just because I was in Seattle.\u00a0 I am not sure why any coffee place can’t figure out the easiest key to great coffee?\u00a0\u00a0 A clean machine.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of miles from home, drinking bad coffee, and wondering why I am not at home drinking home town roast Cardinal Coffee!<\/p>\n

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You know how sometimes when you go to “the source”, food and drink tastes better?\u00a0 You know, like going to a farm and getting fresh cut vegetables? Or to a micro-brewery?\u00a0 Or to Evian, France? \u00a0 Well, I wondered if the same might be true for Starbucks locations in Seattle?\u00a0 It’s 6AM, nothing else is… Continue reading Seattle – Starbucks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[844,3314,3315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}