# Who serves the worst coffee? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 21, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544 "2006-09-21T12:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/21 "2006-09-21T15:59:29Z")
If you drink your coffee black, like I do, then Starbucks serves the most horrid burnt tasting offal I’ve ever had the privilege of paying $3 for. Starbucks is really more for the caffeinated milkshake crowd than for real hardcore 10-cup-a-day coffee fiends. Surprisingly the best I know of on a regular basis is White Castle. That stuff will blow your socks off. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/22 "2006-09-21T16:49:33Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] If you drink your coffee black, like I do, then Starbucks serves the most horrid burnt tasting offal I’ve ever had the privilege of paying $3 for. Starbucks is really more for the caffeinated milkshake crowd than for real hardcore 10-cup-a-day coffee fiends. Surprisingly the best I know of on a regular basis is White Castle. That stuff will blow your socks off. [/QUOTE] Another vote for Starbucks as the absolute worst. If I want decent coffee I have to make it myself. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/23 "2006-09-21T17:40:01Z")
The coffee machine in our group coffee lounge if a certain heathen who _doesn’t empty out the used grounds_ makes it. Bleugh. ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/24 "2006-09-21T18:13:30Z")
The absolute worst I’ve ever had was from the Starbuck’s at the Barnes & Noble in Lafayette, LA. Tasted like burned asphalt filtered through old gym socks. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/25 "2006-09-21T18:43:13Z")
I have to put in a vote for the Holiday Inn (I think) breakfast room in Duluth. I got a cup and drank some and just stared at it amazed. It was water but kind of dark colored. I hadn’t had coffee like that in many many years. It was bad enough that it sticks out in my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/26 "2006-09-21T19:24:24Z")
All coffee is the worst coffee. I don’t know how people stand the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/27 "2006-09-21T20:22:02Z")
Haven’t any of you been to Utah? ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/28 "2006-09-21T22:15:54Z")
Ihop? ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/29 "2006-09-21T23:38:04Z")
Cruise Ships. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/30 "2006-09-21T23:53:16Z")
[QUOTE=FormerMarineGuy] As far as the Navy coffee, I assume it is the same as all military coffee. What I would do for a cup of that mud right now. [/QUOTE] Well there’s military coffee and AAFES coffee. One you get from the chow hall, or it’s whatever someone brought in and made. It can be not-so-great-but-hot-with-caffeine to “hey this is pretty good.” The worst coffee is made by AAFES and you get it at the food court at any military exchange place. That shit ain’t even coffee. You could take some brown water from an old rusty pipe, boil it and it’d taste better than that crap they serve at the food court by the PX. It _almost_ makes you willing to sink so low as to try tea. _Almost_. Personally, I’d rather boil my boot-laces and drink that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/31 "2006-09-22T12:46:12Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Well there’s military coffee and AAFES coffee. One you get from the chow hall, or it’s whatever someone brought in and made. It can be not-so-great-but-hot-with-caffeine to “hey this is pretty good.” [/QUOTE] I was in infantry and I like the mud that is made in the field. Super black, super thick, and great! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/32 "2006-09-22T14:22:52Z")
Hands down, the least satisfying coffee at an establishment that _proudly advertises_ the quality of their coffee is at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Overheated, flavorless, good only for dunking stale product. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/33 "2006-09-22T14:34:43Z")
Starbucks in the UK In the USA it aint so bad, I’ve had worse ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/34 "2006-09-22T14:36:19Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] All coffee is the worst coffee. I don’t know how people stand the stuff. [/QUOTE] Sacriligious swine…and you an American. For shame sir, for shame ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/35 "2006-09-22T16:30:09Z")
I’m not a coffee drinker, but I feel pretty confident that Mr. S the javahead’s nomination would be the “coffee” at the infamous Wall Drug. At 5 cents a cup, he said it was horribly overpriced. Even my dad, who is at the opposite end of the coffee-drinker spectrum (Folger’s, black, none of that frou-frou overpriced Starbucks crap for him), agreed. They both pronounced it light brown water. I won’t touch a coffeepot. You want coffee, you make it. I haven’t the slightest idea how. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/36 "2006-09-22T16:46:46Z")
A law firm I used to work at. Coffee should never look like weak tea. It was barely tan. Add sugar & cream? Sure, if I wanted hot, sugary cream water. I’ll take over-heated burned coffee over that any day. At least it has some kind of kick. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/37 "2006-09-22T16:50:15Z")
I used to take a thermos of coffee to work every day, and after awhile I noticed that it had been getting progressively worse and worse over a long period of time. The decline was subtle, but perceptable. When I investigated, I found that my wife had been secretly mixing in chicory with the blend, increasing the proportion of chicory to real coffee until it finally was nothing but chicory. Now that was a bad cup of joe. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/38 "2006-09-22T21:36:42Z")
Dude. You were drinking _lettuce._ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/39 "2006-09-22T21:50:42Z")
I don’t like coffee, and can’t tell the good from the bad. But for a long time, there were these huge, brown vending machines that dispensed coffee, tea, hot chocolate and sometimes, I swear, _chicken soup_ :eek: I know that whenever I tried the tea or hot chocolate it came out weak, lukewarm, and with the taste of the other selections mixed in. I shudder to think how coffee from those machines tasted. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544/40 "2006-09-22T22:17:29Z")
My SO. He is now forbidden in our home to make coffee unless I’m right there to supervise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-serves-the-worst-coffee/373544.md?page=3)