So, I’ve got a new job, been here 6 weeks and still getting to know my cow-orkers. I made a rare trip to Starbucks this morninig before work, and learned that Starbucks Company did something kind of shitty regarding our soldiers and the war in Iraq.
A cow-orker was delpoyed outside Baghdad about 18 months ago, and his squad wrote a letter to Starbucks saying they missed the coffee, couldn’t buy it “over there” and would Starbucks send them some? Starbucks wrote back and said (and I’m paraphrasing here) “Starbucks does not support the war in Iraq, and so we will not send you the coffee you’ve asked for”.
So, now I’ve got to boycott Starbucks. :dubious: I mean, the story is hearsay, for one thing. But on the other hand, my cow-orker seems pretty adamant about his boycott of Starbucks and looked incensed when he saw my paper cup.
Anyone care to join me in a half-hearted boycott of Starbucks?
I’d bet that if pressed it wasn’t “his squad”, but “someone a friend of his knew in another division” or some such. Of course, even when presented with the evidence, most UL fans will insist that it happened to them goddammit! so you may have an uphill struggle.
I’ve really never understood these emails along the lines of “Company X doesn’t support Y so you must boycott it!” What? Starbucks has closed is operations in Israel? Oh well, I must buy my coffee elsewhere :rolleyes:
Second Cup or Timothy’s are better. Tim Horton’s is better still, but there are very few in the US. Most of the rest (Coffee Time, Country Style, et al) serve roasted sewer effluvium.
No, but please consider yourself lucky for the chlice of forum you started this thread in. There could very well be more comments about you somewhere else.
Indeed. I prefer Chock Full O’ Nuts, but the missus forgot to buy it last trip to the grocery store. Good, bad or indifferent, Starbucks coffee will put lead in your pencil.