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.
Another vote for Starbucks as the absolute worst. If I want decent coffee I have to make it myself.
The coffee machine in our group coffee lounge if a certain heathen who doesn’t empty out the used grounds makes it. Bleugh.
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.
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.
All coffee is the worst coffee. I don’t know how people stand the stuff.
Haven’t any of you been to Utah?
Ihop?
Cruise Ships.
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. 
I was in infantry and I like the mud that is made in the field. Super black, super thick, and great!
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.
Starbucks in the UK
In the USA it aint so bad, I’ve had worse
Sacriligious swine…and you an American.
For shame sir, for shame
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.
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.
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.
Dude. You were drinking lettuce.
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.
My SO. He is now forbidden in our home to make coffee unless I’m right there to supervise.