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It’s your own damn fault for trying to get food at fucking Starbucks, the coffee isn’t even good unless you’re at pikes place
Yeah, support a local sandwich shop.
Probably won’t be much cheaper but it’ll be ten times the quality.
My family ran a local sandwich shop for years. Here’s the problem.
If this is downtown, the local sandwich shop isn’t even there, in part because Starbucks helped price them out of being able to rent. Every supermarket now has a sandwich counter too, so local sandwich shops don’t do well in shopping centers either. Fast food has slightly improved their quality over the years so that’s more competitors at the low end. And Subway, period.
You’re paying for the convenience at Starbucks and in some cases convenience is valuable. If you don’t care about time and can go out of your way to a local sandwich shop, you get better food for less.
Luckily the downtown in the city where I live doesn’t allow chain restaurants so I have many options for decently priced food.
That’s a great law if you can get it. Big parts of the NorCal coastline are like that and going there feels like traveling back to a better time.
Idk…local independent shops aren’t necessarily cheaper. There is a local coffee shop somewhat by me and it’s more expensive than Starbucks. Independent places don’t have the advantage of mass scale like the big name fast food and chain places do. When I go independent, I often find myself paying more money for less convenience. So it’s not even just convenience that you’re sacrificing
Yeah that can be true. Not all local businesses are competitively run.
While it’s true they don’t have the same economies of scale as large corporations, they also don’t have the same overhead. Starbucks coffee stands support a skyscraper full of bureaucrats somewhere. And Starbucks corporate has a stock price to worry about. Local shops don’t have all that crap, and can often get away with charging less. My dad just charged 15% below the corporate shop down the block, as a rule, and it was still profitable.
Also how else is the roof of your mouth going to get tougher without starbucks sandwiches?
There’s a “your mom” joke in there somewhere but it’s not coming to me.
Coffee will be better as well. Starbucks burns their beans so they can guarantee the same “quality” flavor at every location.
what’s different about pike place?
It’s the original one.
It’s not actually. That’s the second store they claim is the first. The real first was on Western. Coffee is the same though, you’re right, better to go to the roasterie
Is the coffee actually different there?
No. It’s a local myth that it is.
I don’t think that’s a local myth. That sounds like a tourist trap myth.
It’s local. I’ve had tons of people tell me it’s better there.
It isn’t.
Interesting, I’ve never heard that. I don’t know any locals that would voluntarily go there unless they have out of town guests.
Tastes the same to me.
No. It’s a local myth that it is.
So now I have to travel around the world to Seattle or something to get good Starbucks? I don’t believe you, nice try!
And even Pikes Place SB’s isn’t as good as a local cafe.
Starbucks coffee’s got nothing on $1 McDonalds coffee.
Truth
They charge that much because the market will bear it. 🤷🏻♂️ That’s on us consumers.
pikes place
Speaking of mildly infuriating 😆
Not entirely true, the stores that unionized have better tasting coffee in comparison to regular sb
How would that even make sense? They’re still getting their beans from the same source and preparing drinks in the exact same way.
Yeah I also heard the unionized stores don’t have bathrooms because everybody shits rainbows.
lmao
Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it’s the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.
At least post some original content!
No. Steal the shit out of Reddirt. Idgaf.
I’m just disappointed they didn’t do the proper conversion from USD to GBP. Should only be about £6.50!
Exactly. A repost is a repost but this guy just Good Will Hunting and “pawned it off as his own”.
People here arent usually on reddit. So its nice to see things crossposted here
Also I feel like this is a stealth ad for starbucks, because that doesn’t look half-bad, and now we’re all talking about it
That looks dogshit for £8. What are you on about?
It was $8 bro, or £6.5 in Gentlemen coins.
I’m hungry and that looks like a generous amount of protein on a toothsome ciabatta, but fuck me I guess
It all comes in frozen solid, so their food isn’t very good.
My guy…
Who cares? Aren’t most memes posted on here coming from other places? Nothing wrong with showcasing content from across the Internet.
Welcome to Lemmy/Reddit. Reposts are lazy and low effort. If it didn’t happen to you, why are you posting it? You don’t even get karma on Lemmy.
That crazy part he did it for no reason. I am so glad to not be chasing karma no more. Unfortunately I still will go back here in Lemmy and see all my posts and comments see how they are doing.
Didn’t realize just how addictive I was to those stupid upvotes.
Memes are fun. That a reason to post them. Karma is a reflection of people enjoying what you post.
I started deleting my reddit account and creating a new one every year because I found myself becoming too involved with my karma level. Fuck that
I never would have seen this without the “repost”. I don’t get why people are so offended about seeing something again. Don’t like it? Saw it before? Keep scrolling then.
Don’t you?
Not aggregate in the official lemmy webui, but some apps have chosen to add it up.
What’s the URL, sorry I’m new to Lemmy. Is it Lemmy.World?
I’m not sure what you’re asking? By the webui I just mean the default web interface of any lemmy instance (i.e. not through an alternative frontend or app)
Thank you. I’m with you now. I just migrated over because I used Boost on Reddit and received a notification Boost was now available on this new platform 👍
Because they want attention
Starbucks is a union busting piece of shit organization, regardless of their piece of shit food, fuck Starbucks.
I’ve clearly eaten too many lunches from food vendors (including SB) inside convention centers because I expected see maybe 2 slices of ham and 1 of cheese for $8 (in 2023 money). And maybe a lettuce leaf that is probably a recycled hot coffee sleeve dyed green.
Actually, you were right. This sandwich contains 2 half slices of cheese and 4 half slices of ham.
The ham is folded
Them’s fightin words buddy
I don’t think it is. Look at the second slice from the top. There’s a hole on the left edge. If it was folded, I would expect to see a layer between the hole and the third slice. If it is folded, every fold is so perfect that there is no overhang on any edge. You cannot possibly fold irregularly shaped ham slices with that kind of precision.
Source: I sandwich.
I mean you could see what was on it before you bought it, that’s on you dog. All you did was prove people will pay that much for a shit sandwich.
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You’re paying extra for the love they put into it.
Don’t forget the chit-chat and the greetings. That itself is £7.
Sandwiches are complicated. They should cost like £100!
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Why do people still give them money?
I get the sentiment, but most places don’t have even halfway decent coffee shops. Everyone gives starbucks shit (rightfully so), but the fact is if you walk into a random cafe in America, it will most likely be inferior to starbucks. The level of quality in American coffee is just abysmal. And if you’re traveling, you won’t know if the cafe you take a chance on is a hidden gem (spoiler, it never is). I was in Austin one time and I found this hipster place that had great reviews on google. The interior was really nice, nice place to work, spacious, etc. The coffee tasted like dog water. It wasn’t mediocre, it was trash. I’m sure Austin has great cafes, but unless you live there how will you know? Starbucks is a consistent mediocre coffee.
Reviews are a bit of a shit show with everyone being used to Starbucks as the “standard” now. I still give the local places a shot when I travel. I find them rarely worse than Starbucks for a latte and quiet often better. Plus, you know not giving money to Starbucks and their horrible anti-union leadership…
I guess living in Seattle has spoiled me.
The coffee may suck but the whisky is great!
Wow. The fyre festival sandwich at least came with a salad.
Only if you traded it for a blanket
Dont buy food in a shitty ciffee shop… lol
this is the kind of sandwich i make while hungover, take one bite, and then go “oh god i forgot the mayo”
Ew, mayonnaise?
Mayo is so delicious
Reminds me of Weird Al Yankovich’s masterpiece “White and Nerdy”.
Just slap a label on it like with artisan bread and any hipster out there will grab it up yum…
I went to Niagara falls the other day and they were selling $10 pizza slices, my wife got one. I went to the grocery store across the street, bought a large roll from the fresh baked ones. Got cheese ends and ham ends at the deli aisle, and grabbed salad cup. It cost me about $8 but I got a much better, massive sandwich compared to what my wife ate.
What is a cheese end? The end of the block of cheese that is sliced off?
Ham ends too, what are these terms?
Canadian, probably? Niagara is on the usa/Canadian border
Grocery stores sometimes sell packs of mixed cheeses and deli meats from the ends or trims.
That’s a great idea and I would like to see it here, but America has no real laws preventing billions of dollars of food waste, so companies never do anything like this.
Shoprite here in Pennsylvania does that all the time. TBF the shit is nasty and still costs about as much per pound as proper deli meats and cheeses.
We were at Niagara Falls earlier this year and we did the same thing. Food prices there are insane.
Tourist hot spots are insane. I was having a cup of coffee in a small cafe at St. Mark’s Square in Venice and it was 6.50€ for the coffee and a 12€ cover charge. Rip-off.
$10 for a slice of pizza? And you paid it? What in the world? No wonder food prices keep going up.
No they keep going up cause we have shitty governments who side with corporations and don’t give a shit about us
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It’s actually 2 slices of meat cut in half.
It actually does appear to be 4 full slices folded over
Oh, you’re probably right. I’m on a phone screen.
People giving money to Starbucks only tells them they can continue to charge what they want. I’ve never been a customer because coffee gives me the shits, but I’m constantly amazed to hear what people are willing to pay for a single beverage. Most Starbucks drinkers pay what I would pay for an entire meal drink included for their one drink.
FWIW most of those Starbucks drinks have more calories than your entire meal. So from a purely energetics standpoint they’re winning.
You don’t buy Starbucks food for the value. You do it cause there’s one on the way to work/school.
