Where can a fella get a good cuppajoe around here?
Slate Magazine wondered about this, too, and recently pitted the Starbucks with the McDonalds and Dunkin' Donuts in an effort to find the best cup of coffee.
Here's an excerpt: ... many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring," Balzac once observed. He might as well have been describing me. To talk about the subtleties of macchiato, wince at a friend's homemade brew, come late to an appointment because of long lines at the siphon bar—all things I've done in recent months—will guarantee you'll have a place in coffee heaven and be totally insufferable on Earth. The good news is that even sanctimonious coffee bores must lapse: The flesh is weak, the day is full, and Starbucks is just half a block away ...
And for lack of a better term, here's the executive summary from Slate:
- Starbucks: Tied for last, black coffee; second place, cappuccino. “Comments following my colleagues’ first sips of Starbucks’ black coffee included ‘Oof!’ ‘Yeesh!’ and—most tellingly, I think—‘Blawl!'"
- McDonald’s: Tied for last, black coffee; first place, cappuccino. Despite the stigma, “McDonald’s cappuccino was, almost unanimously, our favorite. Our critics thought the McCafé cappuccino had the ‘most coffee taste’ with more (albeit the most bitter) espresso flavor.”
- Dunkin’ Donuts: First place, black coffee; last place, cappuccino. “Although we found the coffee more watery than we would have liked, it was the least oily of the three samples and—more to the point—the least unsettling to behold.”
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