# Coffee Wars: Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [April 3, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736 "2013-04-03T15:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/61 "2013-04-06T12:47:38Z")
wondering what folks think of Panera’s coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/62 "2013-04-06T13:21:01Z")
Equally crap, but all coffee is crap. If it didn’t look so good, feel so good, make me feel so good, and especially smell so good, I’d never be able to endure the crappy taste. I cannot figure out how something that _smells_ like coffee can _taste_ like coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/63 "2013-04-06T14:04:00Z")
Starbucks ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/64 "2013-04-06T16:08:16Z")
I’m really happy you included a tea option. Why anyone prefers coffee over tea is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/65 "2013-04-07T01:50:12Z")
We do have Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks in Thailand (and Krispy Kreme and Mr Donut etc). But I don’t go to DD for coffee. I go there for dinuts and have the coffee incidentaly. I do go to Starbucks for the coffee and may have their snacks incidentally. We even bring back Starbucks coffee to drip at home. I can’t fault DD’s coffee though. I worked in a DD in West Texas for a year right out of high school. (This was the 1970s, and I later found out it was the only one in that part of the state and maybe the whole state at the time, dunno. It was a franchise and eventually shut down on the retirement of the couple who owned it.) The coffee there was good too. But it seemed better than the coffee at today’s Thai DDs. Not sure where the ones here get theirs from. And they’ve started offering cappuccino options; do the US ones do that now? ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/66 "2013-04-07T12:35:47Z")
I only drink coffee for the caffeine, but DD tastes OK to me. I do notice that they practically use shovels to throw in the sugar. If I could order a “lahge reggala” at Starbucks, I’d probably go there once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/67 "2013-04-07T13:59:19Z")
> [@DonLogan](#): > > If I could order a “lahge reggala” at Starbucks, I’d probably go there once in a while. As long as they understand your accent, of course you can. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/68 "2013-04-07T14:17:31Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Starbucks coffee is aimed at the contingent that dilutes their coffee with milk and flavorings. Their coffee is, as a consequence, overstrong, burned-tasting, so as to make sure that a vivid coffee taste permeates all the milk and whatnot that their primaryIis flowncustomers are going to dilute their coffee with. > > It tastes awful straight up, black no sugar. It’s not “a roast too dark for your liking” it’s too much coffee crammed into the basket for the amount of water being drawn through it. I’m not sure if they do other bad things to it or not (such as keep it too hot for too long, etc). But they’ve selected their coffees for extra bitter notes and robust flavor and cooked it into a thick syrupy concentrate (too much coffee cooked too long). > if I ever go in for the esxperience again. > > There comes a time wild starses as you., > > They are all upset because you havr dsaathis is nit jmy oknl coide;’ > > Itd is donedddd;fskaaaaaaaaa I reread this twice because I thought I was having a stroke and suddenly words had no meaning. Completely surreal experience. ---
**Author:** ![Allthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/69 "2013-04-07T18:18:03Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > There comes a time wild starses as you., > > They are all upset because you havr dsaathis is nit jmy oknl coide;’ > > Itd is donedddd;fskaaaaaaaaa Another [“Breathings, and dleaorations of a delf”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-370350.html) moment, brought to you by Ambien. Better living though chemistry! ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736/70 "2013-04-07T19:47:44Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > As long as they understand your accent, of course you can. Accent? Sounds right to me, but I can do without the cream and sugar. Lahge blak, please. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-wars-dunkin-donuts-or-starbucks/654736.md?page=3)