Archangel M
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Caffine trumps politics I guess.
I find this statement amusing, because around here the complaints about Starbucks tend to come from the effete lefties. The song usually goes, "Starbucks is a capitalist parasite that moves in and sucks the business away from local cafes who support a rich and vibrant artistic community, and sell beans raised in slave-labor conditions unlike [local cafe] who supports organic fair-rate growers who look vaguely like Che and yadda yadda yadda..."
It's fun to watch lefties eat their own. Especially while sipping a hot cup of Starbucks coffee.![]()
I was at the Great Wall at Badaling in China and I was looking at the old buildings and there .RIGHT in the middle of them was this nasty looking STARBUCKS. :duh:
YES I know it was there because foreigners, such as me, want coffee from Starbucks and it is likely they are making large sums of money there but to me it was
Hmmm a Starbucks .. Isnt that nice BUT ITS WRONG!!!!! :cuss:
Im sorry, I am at the Great Wall to try and forget about the West for a second and pursue one of my interests Chinese history and NOT get horrible over priced coffee from Starbucks. Priced so DAMN high in China that it is likely your average Chinese person CANT afford it or wouldnt want to pay the price for it EVEN WHEN THEY CAN.:ticked:
Yeah that was a rant without warning but I needed to get that out.
Sorry
Im sorry, I am at the Great Wall to try and forget about the West for a second and pursue one of my interests Chinese history and NOT get horrible over priced coffee from Starbucks. Priced so DAMN high in China that it is likely your average Chinese person CANT afford it or wouldnt want to pay the price for it EVEN WHEN THEY CAN.
Well, it was there because the Chinese Government bid out the spot. So if not Starbucks, it would have been McDonalds or KFC/Taco Bell/Burger King or something else. It's not as if "if not for Starbucks" that particular spot would have been empty but for the dirt and indigenous rocks. Once the Chinese decided to lease that spot of land to the highest Western bidder it was just a matter of who coughed up the cash.
Be thankful you saw it now, when there were still only a handful of horribly out of place capital opportunities, and not the 100's or 1000's that will surely be there in 50 years.
jim
Kinda hard to do, what with all the cars and lightbulbs and stuff, eh?
Disliking Starbucks could also be a product of simply not liking their coffee. I don't frequent coffee shops at all (or VERY infrequently). When I do buy coffee in a store it's at the local Sheetz while I'm on the road. As a general rule I brew a pot and carry a thermos to work.
I wouldn't be suprised if starbucks puts some hidden addicting substance in their coffee that gets you addicted after a week of drinking their coffee.
OMG, I miss Sheetz soooo much... I could LIVE on those hamburgers on a pretzel they sell... seriously.
I drink starbucks, because its about the only thing around... if I were in the Colorado area Id be drinkin THIS
because it consistantly beats Starbucks coffee hands down in tri-state taste tests... and because my Uncle owns the company. LOL.