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Message: <blockquote data-quote="red dirt shootist" data-source="post: 4088464" data-attributes="member: 52708">Starbucks is crap, they don't know how to make coffee, if you want a fru fru coffee, loaded with milk and sugar, they have that. Ever seen a roasting date on their coffee, of course not, they aren't about coffee, they are all about marketingI've made coffee every way it can be made, at least that I know of. When you say coffee, that is a very wide subject, from instant to espresso. Instant speaks for itself, but espresso, that is the elixer of the gods. Expensive, complicated, difficult, but if you nail it, unbelievable. The problem is no one around here knows what espresso tastes like, everyone thinks it tastes like burnt coffee, That's because they bought some fru fru coffee machine and then blew a whole 50 bucks on the grinder. The grinder should cost more (at least 500 bucks) than the coffee machine, and your coffee should not have been roasted more than three days ago.Having said all that, you will not believe the money and time you will spend on all that insanity. What I finally figured out is nothing beats a good cup of drip coffee, just like Glock em down said, easy, cheap, good. And like a friend of mine says, "It ain't about the coffee, it's about the pastry."Now, as a pro tip for you guys that are socially awkward, if you're out and about and see some little gal, ask her if she has time to have a cup of coffee with you. Then as you're enjoying that and sharing a piece of pie, tell her about coffee, where it's grown, how it's harvested, the economic impact on some of the poorest countries in the world, it goes on and on. Then buckle up, coffee is the language of romance. Forget the fru fru sissy pants talk of wine.</blockquote>

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