tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003147.post7441163973812514550..comments2023-05-17T02:56:54.411-07:00Comments on inclement reality: Starbucks going downhillChristopher Farrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17104149579685352053noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21003147.post-64088994471779434092007-07-09T20:49:00.000-07:002007-07-09T20:49:00.000-07:00We only go to Starbucks when there are no other al...We only go to Starbucks when there are no other alternatives. <BR/><BR/>Their product has delcined in quality-seriously-for a while. The burned-bean taste of the last Starubucks house I drank lives in my mouth still. <BR/><BR/>You additonally say this:<BR/><BR/><I>Luckily, Corvallis people can go to the Beanery</I><BR/><BR/>May God always smile benificently on the mighty Beanery. I worked there as a janitor back around 1990; there was never a better place to work as a janitor at the 2nd Street and 26th Street Beaneries. I got to take home the unused daily grind, and doted on Allann Bros house coffee for <I>years</I> for free; it is still, in my opinion, a blend for all reasons that is without parallel.<BR/><BR/>Up here in PDX we don't have Coffee People anymore but we do still have an armload of local shops with class and style, and Dutch Bros is slowly moving in (they have good coffee and cool, pumped employees-none friendlier). We have Stumptown Coffee Roasters, which we love.<BR/><BR/>If Alan went and opened him a Bean up here in Portland, we'd be so there though. He really "got" coffee and coffee-culture. That there's still a Bean is evidence that he still does.Samuel John Kleinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514541030057763303noreply@blogger.com