Costa Lot
January 13, 2011 2 Comments
What’s with the current obsession with coffee shops? Where did people buy their hot beverages before they existed? What did people do before they had a selection of 15 coffee shops in every medium-sized town centre? How would the British economy cope if the world’s entire coffee crop was blighted and the coffee shops had to close? Why does a coffee cost so much in these places? More pertinently, why am I prepared to pay these outrageous prices? Since when have teenagers been into coffee? Why aren’t they in school or getting pissed in the park? Who are all these people who seem to have time to sit around all day sipping on some ridiculous fabricated coffee-based drink? Why can’t the cup sizes just be called small\medium\large? What do they feed the staff in Caffe Nero, Warrington that makes them so permanently perky? Why are Costa Coffee so much slower at serving than the other chains? Why are sandwiches so expensive in these places? Why do Starbucks call it “Skim Milk” instead of “Skimmed Milk”? Just how much training do you need to become a skilled barista?
Phew…. I think I need to cut back on my caffeine intake.
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It is wierd. I’ve always thought that when reach a point where you pay as much for coffee as you do for the equivalent amount of beer then we are – as a society – close to some kind of low water mark. I read today, that in America you can buy a new size of coffee in Starbucks which is nearly a litre, called a Venti
Let me run that one up the flagpole again: a litre of coffee. A litre! I cannot imagine being about to drink that much coffee without grinding my teeth to dust before strangling the barista because he used hot milk instead of cold.
A litre?? That’s actually mental. Even if you could stomach that much coffee then surely it would be cold before you got anywhere near the end?
I’m sure if it was only about 40p dearer than the next size then I’d still go for it on a matter of principle.