But Starbucks’s latte prices are comparable to anybody else’s latte prices. Their drip prices are comparable to anybody else’s drip prices. The point is, Starbucks isn’t really charging much more than any other place that sells the same things.

Ummm...no?

Okay so you’re proposing Starbucks runs “stores” where they just give away free coffee all day? What would they do with this “goodwill” that would generate?

Prices at community stores are pretty much on par with other locations, because, according to Starbucks VP John Kelly, “This is not a charity.”

Are there seriously customers that are terrified they might lose the admiration of the bartender?

Are you insane? If you ever ruin my tea by squeezing the tea bag and releasing all the tannins which make it bitter, I will punch you.

Are you insane? If you ever ruin my tea by squeezing the tea bag and releasing all the tannins which make it bitter,…

David’s Tea makes the best disposable filter bags. It’s too bad they make such shitty tea (full of weird artificial flavors).

David’s Tea makes the best disposable filter bags. It’s too bad they make such shitty tea (full of weird artificial…

The ATM is the teller.

Also it’s not like “party cut” doesn’t exist elsewhere. If you ask for it from a pizza place in the Northeast they’ll cut the wedges half the size, but they’re still wedges. It’s useful for kids’ birthday parties.

Sigh...that’s exactly what we need, more of people who don’t live on the coasts whining about how mean people from the coasts are to them.

This sounds like remarkable incompetence.

The Mountaineer Food Bank requires that all perishables traveling more than 30 minutes be transported in a refrigerated truck or van

This is a basic problem with many of these “drives.” I remember the Boston Red Sox were collecting socks for the homeless. They were encouraging people to bring in new packages of socks to a game, I think you’d get some free tchotchke if you did.

it’s about ranking potato chips, not reconstituted potato paste shaped to look like chips

there’s no hint as to how any particular barbecue chip will taste. You can’t base it on the name: A barbecue in America means different things to different people. Is it the flavor of a cookout? If so, grilling or smoking? Dry rub or wet seasoning?

Except that he never said anything about having EVER actually LIKED it black. Just something about “the sweetness interfered with the thumping coffee-ness”, whatever that means.

Ingredients:

Well aren’t you the clever one! You’ve completely blindsided me with your wit, I never anticipated that some really smart guy would come at me with exactly this kind of comment.

Bacon. It’s gonna be bacon. “Real” strips of bacon, with the red part and the white part and all that.

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