Even the Starbucks out here are different. They offer breakfast sandwiches made with whole grain english muffins, egg substitute, reduced-fat cheese and turkey bacon. They have fruit and cheese plates and fresh salads boxed up, overpriced and ready for purchase. All the Starbucks back home had in the way of food was sticky sweet pastries and crumbly coffee cakes.
Continuing Culture Shock
December 13th, 2007 | Food and Drink, San Francisco
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When you come to Seattle for a visit (because you’re coming, right?!) you will see just how different Starbucks can be here in the land of The First Starbucks. (Hint: the mermaid used to have nipples!)
We’ve finally got that action here in Nashville, too!
Yay! Isn’t it grand? Do you have the wraps, too?
I think that’s a “big city” thing, which is why Nashville is just now getting it, 5 years after everyone else.
Do they still do steamed milk with whatever flavoring you wish? I always liked those in the ‘Buck’s early years.
Somewhere downtown (right off Powell Street if I remember correctly) you can see one of Lewis Black’s signs that the end is near: a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks. Yes, I stood there momentarily with my head going back and forth, gawking in disbelief. In a city where nearly everybody walks, you wouldn’t want to have to cross the freakin’ street to get to a damn Starbucks!
There are two right across the street from one another on Battery. I pass one or the other on my walk every day, depending what side of the street I am on.
I always wondered why Starbucks didn’t have more food.
but at least it’s still a comfort to know they’re overpriced everywhere.
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