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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    Peet's is better. Alfred Peet trained the guys who started Starbucks on how to roast coffee back in the 70's. Too bad they have forgotten everything they learned.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    PECOTA says Starbucks is in steep decline phase.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    06/09/09

    @Kid Twist: +1 journeyman infielder
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    The Peet's employees all seem more serious and career-oriented. Totes into their jobs. Or perhaps they are all grad schoolers. Starbucks feels more like teens flipping burgers to me.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    Stumptown > all.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    Comparisons are odorous.
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    Image of dado dado
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    I'm quite certain my life was better before I knew what a macchiato was.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    06/09/09

    @dado: Isn't a macchiato someone like the guy Teresa on Real Housewife on NJ is married to?
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    Image of Mary Mouse Mary Mouse
    06/09/09

    @dado: A macchiato in the original Italian sense is delightful. The American version may as well be an ice cream sundae and as such is not even recognisable as a cup of coffee.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    06/09/09

    @dado: Wasn't macchiato the Karate Kid?
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    06/09/09

    @Mary Mouse: Hmm, that hardly describes Teresa's fairy-hating husband.
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    06/09/09

    @dado: Is true.
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    Image of Peter Feld Peter Feld
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    Peet's is so much better and to your point @iplaudius, Starbucks had a predatory expansion program that bought up and killed great local roasters like Coffee Connection in Boston and Pasqua.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    Team Peets over 'Bucks and the Ethiopian dudes on the corner over Peets. McDonald's does not ever get my money, I don't care how good their coffee slurpees appear to be.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    Peet’s may be the best major chain, but, the thing is, none of the big chains can get the coffee from the roaster to the store as quickly as a local roaster-coffeehouse can do. Some day, I hope, the chains will find a way to serve coffee brewed within 24 hours of roasting.
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    06/09/09

    @iplaudius: I thought it was generally best between 24 and 72 hours after roasting. Within 24 hours would be too soon.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    Peets is much better. Also, I'm talking about the whole bean coffee, as I can't stand the way either of them brew it.


    Starbucks never cleans their equipment, so you are drinking years worth of accumulated oils.


    Peets brews theirs a little too strongly for my taste, but I'll go there in a pinch if I am out of town.

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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/09/09

    In reply to Nate Silver Moves On to the Real Issues
    It is better. It's the brewed coffee that they have a Gourmet Garage. I love the Sumatra variety.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/09/09

    @VoxPopuli: It's so good that it'll make you drop your 't's in your propositions.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    06/09/09

    @VoxPopuli: Are you propositioning me?
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    04/28/09

    In reply to Cruel Loser Loses More
    Why couldn't he just pound out another 60,000 words? I'm sure the time blown meeting with lawyers superseded what it wouldda taken to crank that bullshit out... All he'd have to do is have someone transcribe his dictation of how he transformed a Pepsi logo into the cosmical and societal metaphor for circular meta-soul transmogrification...
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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    04/28/09

    In reply to Cruel Loser Loses More
    Let's rebrand this guy's neck.


    Right now, it's too chicken-y.

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    04/28/09

    In reply to Cruel Loser Loses More
    i could totally write a branding book for 100k, in about a week. my dog could too.
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    Image of uncle_wiggly uncle_wiggly
    04/28/09

    In reply to Cruel Loser Loses More
    I like the tiny orange shaped spout cover on the new orange juice carton if that counts for anything. The actual graphic design on the rest of the carton is horrifying though, if that counts against him. Maybe he should just specialize in spout cover design.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    04/28/09

    @uncle_wiggly: Redesigning the Tropicana packaging was given as an assignment in one of my sophmore year design classes. The solutions were all better, smarter and more up-to-date than the crap this guy turned out.
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