Problem with these high street chain ‘coffee’ shops is that the coffee element has long since been resigned to a mere ‘flavouring’ in their elaborate mocha choca chino toffee sauce with extra cream drinks!visited a Starbuck a week or so ago, haven't been in one for a while, but I fancied a coffee and they were on my route, so I ordered what I used to have; a grande latte with an extra shot (that's a strong mid sized coffee). How much ?? £4.40 !!!!!
I can buy a pack of 10 of their coffee pods for £3.00.... Won't be going there again.....
Yesterday my daughter e-mailed me, again, asking why I didn't do something useful with my time,
"like sitting around in the Garden bar and drinking John Smiths isn't a good thing."
She is "only thinking of me," she said, and suggested, I go down to the old folks Centre and hang out with the fellas. I sent her an e-mail telling her I had and that I had joined the Senior Parachute Club. She replied, "Are you nuts? You're 72 years-old and now you're going to start jumping out of airplanes? I told her that I even had a Membership Card and e-mailed a copy to her. Immediately, she telephoned me and yelled, "Good grief, Dad, where are your glasses?! This is a membership to a Prostitute Club, not a Parachute Club." "Oh man, am I in trouble," I said, "I signed up for five jumps a week!" The line went dead. Life as a Senior Citizen isn't getting any easier, but sometimes it can be fun to wined the kids up
Last time I had coffee from one these chains was a ‘last resort’ waiting for someone to be seen in A&E, I tried it twice and took back to the counter, I suggested they tried using mud from the gardens outside instead of their coffee, it was so bad I wouldn’t have even served it to Putin!Problem with these high street chain ‘coffee’ shops is that the coffee element has long since been resigned to a mere ‘flavouring’ in their elaborate mocha choca chino toffee sauce with extra cream drinks!
I honestly doubt their customers could tell whether the coffee ‘flavouring’ was a shot of espresso or a teaspoon of Nescafé!!!