Today's Washington Post article about people wasting money on coffee will hit a lot of people personally. As a regular at Starbucks (although I just drink straight black coffee, nothing special), I probably spend just under $1,000 per year on my habit. And now all these "financial planners" are harassing people like me because we're in debt (college loans) and shouldn't be spending money on a luxury like coffee.
Screw them. It's my money and I don't work so I can pay back my loans and plan a good retirement like the experts want. I work so I can go see baseball games, drink beer, travel occasionally and enjoy a daily cup of coffee at Starbucks.
And by the way, you can use the "coffee calculator" in the article to enter in the financial stats for buying copies of the Washington Post in print vs. reading it for free online. I've saved several hundred dollars over the course of my time in DC by not buying the damn paper.
So as I said, screw them. Now where's my coffee?
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Whenever I hear someone refer to Starbucks as "An Evil Empire" or other such phrase, I hasten to point that every employee there is eligible for health care benefits and that it is ranked as one of the best places to work.
That's my kind of evil empire. By the way, Boz, do you the Brazil saying for the perfect cup of coffee?
I have no clue what the Brazilian saying is. My Portuguese is limited to speaking Spanish with a Brazilian accent and hoping they understand. I actually read it and understand it quite well, however.
How is Brazilian coffee in Brazil? I'm always a bit disappointed in Colombia. For a country that grows such excellent coffee, finding a decent cup of it inside the country is hard sometimes. (I blame Hugo Chavez.)
Here's the sayingabout the perfect cup of coffee:
Quente como o inferno, preto como a noite, forte como a capeta e doce como amor.
It must be hot as hell, black as night, strong as the devil and as sweet as love.
I like Brazilian coffee in Brazil. Mércia is from Minas Gerais which is the largest producer of coffee in the country and in Poços de Caldas, I have said some of the best coffee I've ever had.
I also had very good coffee in Puerto Rico.
When I lived in Chile, the coffee was surprisingly good. However, Chilean coffee shops are definitely not Starbucks...
Woah, you had good coffee in Chile? Most Chileans drink Nescafe on a daily basis - i.e., load up a spoonful of instant and sugar and add hot water. This was my daily routine for six months. They refer to the brewed stuff as "cafe-cafe." And I met more than one gringo who came to Santiago and couldn't leave because of the "cafe con piernas."
Yes, I too drank a lot of Nescafe while in Chile. I actually don't mind the stuff all that much, as long as I know what I'm getting. There is some good cafe-cafe around Chile if you look.
For my joke about the cafe con piernas, I actually went into very few of them and never found them racier than a Hooters. I heard of worse ones, but never saw one.
However, the coffee at the cafe con piernas was by far the best in Chile. Traveling with gringo coffee snobs, it was funny to watch my female friends go into the normally all-men's cafes just so they could have a great cup of coffee. It would throw the Chilean men and women into shock.
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