“SPRINGTIME, ANYTIME: Celebrate the joy of spring with this wonderfully balanced and smooth coffee. A unique blend of coffee from both Africa and Latin America, with notes of rich cocoa and lush dried fruits, this harmonious bloom of flavor is the perfect centerpiece for any springtime gathering.”
That’s the marketing hype displayed on the side of the STARBUCKS SPRING DAY BLEND and I agree with the “harmonious bloom of flavor.” Starbucks brings out these “LIMITED EDITION” coffee blends throughout the year and I always give them a try. Some are hits–like STARBUCKS SPRING DAY BLEND–others like Honey & Madagascar Vanilla Blend miss the mark. What’s your favorite beverage? GRADE: A-
George, I’m mainly a tea drinker. I have it with a spot of milk and without sugar, unless I’m dunking buttered bun or toast. I have coffee once in a while, mostly “filter coffee” which is popular in South India. I have been to Starbucks in Mumbai (in western India), where I live, only once and found their products overrated, although I have never tried their home products.
Prashant, I occasionally drink herbal tea. But my usual routine is to drink 8 cups of coffee in the morning. Then, I’m set for the day!
Surely that “8” is a typo. 8 cups of coffee in the morning should keep you zipping around like the Roadrunner for the rest of the day. Beep beep!!
Michael, nope…no typo. I used to drink 10 cups in the morning but my internist suggested I “cut down a little” on the coffee consumption. So, I went down to 8 cups. I might zip around like the Roadrunner, but Diane is the Energizer Bunny. She is constantly in motion and regularly tops 10,000 steps daily with her Fitbit!
I am not a coffee drinker. I prefer tea. No milk which seems disgusting. Several packets of Equal. I also drink way too much diet pop. Mainly diet Mountain Dew which doesn’t have the bad after taste diet colas have.
Steve, as you can tell I try flavored coffees from time to time, but my go-to coffee is Starbucks Blonde coffee which is smooth and tasty. My taste buds don’t detect the bad after-taste in diet colas so I drink them, too.
My drinking habits are boring–basically coffee, tea, and Cokes. Couple of cups of coffee in the morning, Peets is the brand I’m currently using. Nothing exotic. I’m not a Starbucks fan. I probably haven’t been in a Starbucks more than 4-5 times in my life, always dragged in by someone else. Found the coffee to be nothing special and ridiculously overpriced. The rest of the day it’s mostly tea or water or Cokes. No exotic tea, just Lipton or a similar brand, no decaf. Which leaves Cokes., regular, original, Cokes. No Coke Zero or Diet Cokes, which are disgusting. And water? Out of the tap, no bottled water. Told you it was boring.
Michael, you claim to be a boring drinker, but you certainly are hydrated!
I don’t drink coffee, in fact—unless it’s an occasional cup of cocoa—I don’t drink any hot beverages at all. I chug water all day long, but will ask for unsweetened iced tea if we’re in a restaurant. On the rare occasions I’d go to Starbucks, I used to get one of their frothy iced drinks, but my A1C put an end to those!
Deb, Diane buys a 6-pack of PURE TEA–Black, unsweetened–when guests show up. Our guests like their ice tea with a lemon slice. Whatever bottles of tea remain go into my column for consumption. I just like it with ice. Yes, managing A1C takes effort. I aqua jog at the Pool and that knocks off at least a couple points!
Favorite beverage? Water.
As for coffees, most Starbucks blends are too damn strong and bitter for my taste. We stopped going there during the pandemic and have not returned. In fact, Jackie figured we’re saving $100 a month by skipping Starbucks.
We’re currently using a combination of Starbucks French Roast and 8 O’Clock Columbian.
Jeff, most of the time I’m brewing Starbucks Veranda Blonde Coffee, but I’m open to other blends. I rarely buy coffee in a Starbucks store. BJ’s Warehouse has bags of Starbucks offices and large boxes of Starbucks K-cups for our Kurieg.
I”ve never had a cup of coffee in my life. The smell is very distasteful to me. I drink mostly flavored water, tea (hot & cold) sweetened with stevia and/or monkfruit, diet sodas. If I get a drink that has sugar (like juices) I cut the sweetness with diet lemonlime (prefer diet sprite, but that is rarely available.) I often add flavor packets to plain water bottles. I stocked up on several teas (bigelow herbal peppermint for 25c/box & stash licorice spice tea) but also have many other different flavors.
I only drink caffeinated drinks in the morning, none after noon or so, and not often. Caffeine keeps me awake. Which is interesting because I have some cbd chocolate a friend gave me, which helps with sleep
Maggie, I’ve heard of CBD chocolate helping with sleep. A friend of my takes a CBD gummy before bedtime to ease his pain (he has back problems) and help him stay asleep.
I always drank tea until I moved into this building and began to drink a cup of coffee from the machine in the lobby. Now I drink coffee all the time. I wonder if taking up coffee in your seventies is a good idea. For years I drank coke but i don’t drink much anymore. I don’t really like the carbonation anymore.
Patti, several studies show that coffee is a healthy beverage. I’ve consumed massive amounts of coffee during my life and suffered no ill-effects. Of course, that could be just me…
No Starbucks for me. Overhyped, overpriced, pretentious, bitter. If I ever go into a Starbucks, order a coffee, and I’m asked my name, I’ll get a cup that has Go To Hell written on it.
Jerry, I steer clear of the Starbucks stores. I order the specialty K-cups online. I pick up the Starbucks bags of coffee at BJ’s Warehouse. The Starbucks Blonde coffee isn’t bitter…although that just might be my tastes buds talking.
George, I cannot do without cha which I have with milk but without sugar. Not much of a coffee-drinker though I love to have cold-coffee. Bru is the brand I prefer. I have only been once to a coffee cafe and didn’t relish the experience. The coffee was lukewarm by the time it arrived at the table and I want my hot beverages to be steaming when I take my first sip. The prices of Starbucks etc are much beyond me. During the hot months in India, I like to have desi drinks like lassi (buttermilk), shikanjvi (sweet lemonade), panna (mango juice), sugarcane juice etc.
Neeru, those all sound like tasty drinks! I enjoy ice-coffee in the Summer, too! I’m just finishing Harini Nagendra’s THE BANGALORE DETECTIVES CLUB. India in 1921 with murders and suspense and a newly married woman detective! I’m hoping Harini Nagendra is busy writing a sequel. My review of THE BANGALORE DETECTIVES CLUB will be posted to this blog in a week or so.
Coffee hating, especially Starbucks hating, is sure a Thing, apparently. Dark, rich hot coffee is delicious, the light or flavored stuff is awful, why bother? “Deb”must have guzzled a lot of those drinks to blow an A1C. Those Kurieg machines make tiny cupfuls. Just buy beans! Hint: Coke is worse for you than coffee!
Virgo, I drink my coffee black. Starbucks specializes in amping up their coffees in the store with plenty of sugary ingredients that add a lot of carbohydrates–not good for diabetics like Deb and me. I use my Kurieg for convenience when entertaining a group with mixed tastes: decaf for some, regular coffee for others, and specialty teas for still others (the Kurieg brews teas and cocoa, too). Mainly, I use my Cuisinart coffee brewer with ground coffee.
I’ll chalk this up to you being so deperate for content you’ll say anything! Did I mention I went to El Toro and got a Supremo Burrito on Friday? No! Not newsworthy! The $2700 I won at the Queen over the past two weeks is!
Bob, you are on a winning streak! Quick, buy a lottery ticket. The Mega Millions Jackpot is $170 million!
I could live on that!!!
Bob, even I buy a Mega Millions ticket when it gets over $100 million!
It would be easier to list what I don’t drink than what I enjoy. Basically, I don’t drink more than a swallow or so of anything alcoholic, heavily sugared or too dependent on animal milk. I don’t like smoothies, though I love a fruit punch. And Red Pop…one of the few flavors of soda, albeit ill-defined, I don’t care for (Dr. Brown’s celery-flavored Cel-Ray is another)…but cheerwine, which is almost similar to Red Pop, is fine. Bring me your teas, your sodas, your coffees, your unsugared juices and juice drinks, your near beer, your relatively clean water (with or w/o lemon slices), your powdered mixes, your almond “milk”, your protein shakes yearning to be inhaled…and I will be willing to do the honors. In most cases.
In my last regular office job, so far, I would’ve matched your coffee consumption…I’ve had about five or six jobs so far where the coffee cup was bottomless, and not on any sort of honor bar.
Todd, like you I’m not a fan of smoothies. I’ll drink an occasional milkshake but I have to be careful about the carbohydrate load. I prefer Oat Milk to Almond Milk. I use soy milk from time to time.
Oddly enough, locally almond milk is the least expensive as well as (by me) the tastiest of the alt-“milks”…perhaps the continuing legacy of almond subsidies. All my milkshakes tend toward the sugar-free.
In Europe most people are like us and use a machine with a coffee filter – those capsules have a bad image because they produce a lot of garbage while our used coffee filters are composted.
My wife just adds “real” milk – 3.6% fat and I also add some sugar – together we have more than a liter (2 pints) during the day.
Starbucks etc we don’t like at all!
On our trips to the USA we always had some Nescafe to add to the coloured water that some hotels offered as coffee …
Wolf, Starbucks has a loyal following among coffee drinkers, but many prefer other blends.