"First world problems"

[med_cat]

(I need an "eyeroll" icon...)

This is one of the pieces of news currently trending on FB:
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It's more than just a cup. These people are taking Twitter by storm with ‪#‎MerryChristmasStarbucks‬ to show their displeasure.

What do you think about Starbucks' holiday cups?

Comments

Remember Who Starbuck Was

[john_m_burthotm]

Coffee snobs who rag on Starbucks for being such a big chain should lighten up. They called their first coffee shop "Starbuck's" because, like the character in *Moby Dick*, they loved coffee a whole lot. It's not their fault that they were really successful.
As for the cups, I agree that people should bring their own anyway. I almost always do, wherever I get a cuppa (and in descending order that's home, an independent or small chain, a big chain like Starbucks or Dutch Brothers).
As for the tempest in a coffee cup, hey, 'tis the season for Republicans to wax wroth about some manufactured crisis. Allow the heathen to have their peculiar Winter holidays.

Re: Remember Who Starbuck Was

[med_cat]

How interesting; I didn't know who Starbuck was; never did get around to reading "Moby Dick", although I'd read a few of Melville's other works.

Agreed re: cups and hoo-ha.

Re: Remember Who Starbuck Was

[john_m_burthotm]

One of these days, I am going to write a scene in which some people get coffee drinks at Starbucks and then go around the corner to have lunch at Queequeg's Fajitas.

Re: Remember Who Starbuck Was

[med_cat]

Sounds like an interesting scene :)

Re: Remember Who Starbuck Was

[john_m_burthotm]

They might well just have lunch and leave, giving no more thought to who Queequeg was than to who Starbuck was....

Re: Remember Who Starbuck Was

[med_cat]

Likely enough, yes