Topic: Starbucks coming to Disney Parks (sorry Tim Horton)

[gary]

i wonder if my wife would insert a pic line for me for pixelmania, i could buy liter bags and just spike up a fresh one every 12 hours

[Tim]

wow.  just wow.

[ELinder]

Not a great fan of Starbucks either. I like dark roasted coffee, but I think they do it too fast and too hot, so it tastes burnt and bitter to me. If I get something, it's an Americano, espresso with hot water.

Erich

[zackiedawg]

I'm OK with Starbucks, even though I speak a strange and exotic language that none of their 'baristas' can understand.  While everyone is speaking Starbuckeze, with their double-caf half-caf espresso-latte-chinos in vente doble grande size...in comes the stranger from a distant land who goes to the counter and asks for a 'large coffee'...which is greeted by an immediate cessation of all conversation in the restaurant, except for a lone cricket that somehow got inside and starts his song, and a bunch of doe-in-the-headlight stares back at the stranger who just spoke some weird unintelligble gibberish.  One of the brave baristas tries to communicate with the stranger with the strange tongue..."lahr-jay cough-eee?  My name is Aimee.  Do you want frappucino?  Vente or grande?"  And the stranger looks at them with a raised brow, obviously not understanding their language, and trying desperately to communicate some jumble of foreign thoughts...raising his voice, he spits out his odd musical grunt again: LARGE... COFFEE!".  And again, the doe-eyes stare back at him...while someone finally steps on that annoying cricket.  Somehow after desperate minutes of mimery, the two sides come to an agreement, and the baristas finally settle on handing over the simplest concoction they can think of in hopes of satisfying the stranger, giving him a grande Pike Place roast.  Luckily it seems to work, as the stranger looks relieved and his stress level drops as he eyes what appears to be what he wanted.  And they all wipe their brows with sighs of relief as the foreigner leaves, the conversation picks up, the cricket remains are cleaned off the floor, and they all hope the strange man returns to his strange land and doesn't come back in their store again.

[Roger]

giving him a grande Pike Place roast.

Dude, they gave you a medium.  Although you may not have wanted the value size above Venti.

[zackiedawg]

I don't argue anymore - if it's in a waterproof cup and appears to be a black liquid without any addendums, I figure I've done well and try not to push my luck before someone comes along with some whipcream or chocolate and tries to ruin it.

[gary]

how true, what was wrong with the word large, honestly, i'm not offended, you are not making me feel bad about being a supersizer, i just want the largest bucket of caffeine i can legally possess

[zackiedawg]

Exactly.  Call it large.  Call it a keg.  Back up the tanker truck and give me the hose to drink from...I don't care.  Just give me my caffeine!

[Tim]

Yes, yes, yes!  The one or two times I year I enter a $tarbuck$ for coffee, I ask for a large, black, house-blend.  Hilarity ensues.

[ELinder]

Oh man can I relate! I think there's more of us than admit it, because when I ask for a large, they don't blink twice any more. Of course, for all I know they're actually giving me a small and charging me the large price. 'Least, that's how my wallet sees it, anyway.

Erich

[Tim]

Well look at it this way, the most expensive coffee on the planet will have no problem blending right in with the new surroundings...

[zackiedawg]

You mean he'll get along with his buddies, the $9 burger and the $3 coke?

[RedOctober25]

Dont forget the $4 water...

[RedOctober25]

Looks like they just announced the first two Starbucks locations.  At MK it will be at Main Street Bakery (closing for refurbishment in January) and at Epcot it will be at the Fountainview Cafe.


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[jbwolffiv]

Looks like they just announced the first two Starbucks locations.  At MK it will be at Main Street Bakery (closing for refurbishment in January) and at Epcot it will be at the Fountainview Cafe.


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Taking out the bakery is such a crime, someone at Disney should lose their head!  Just my 2 cents.