the darkerside to rants

Looks like Starbucks is going to raise their prices, and apparantly that got Slate worried enough to write something about it. One of the more interesting little facts is the amount of caffein you get with your Starbucks coffee:

The Wall Street Journal earlier this year sent samples of coffee from Starbucks, 7-Eleven, and Dunkin’ Donuts to Central Analytical Laboratories. The lab reported that a 16-ounce Starbucks house blend coffee contained 223 milligrams of caffeine, compared with 174 and 141 milligrams in comparable amounts of Dunkin’ Donuts and 7-Eleven coffee, respectively. According to the Journal, the average Starbucks coffee drink contains 320 milligrams of caffeine.

I was at a Starbucks yesterday, having an Cafe Americano, it was sucky at best, almost like they scraped the Espresso out from the bottom of the barrel, rather weak in taste and bah.

I guess once you had good coffee you can’t go back to the drivel that is Starbucks.

(via Boing Boing)