Wow 7 hours in before the uninformed tax comments, you really should first understand tax law and check if they paid their taxes before spouting such rubbish. Makes you look stupid posting like this :disappointed:

I agree. Just trying to gain favour and pretend to be environmentally friendly to try and detract from the lack of tax they pay.
Get a cheaper coffee elsewhere.

Panama papers, etc will hopefully start a positive global change. The wealthiest corporations, individuals and criminals should not avoid tax and/or launder money on a huge scale. It's a massive hole in every governments income, yet they all allow it. Politicians don't want to admit that they, people they know and people who donate to their party benefit from avoiding tax.
When governments allow tax avoidance, corruption and keep spending you end up with Greece.

​everthing in moderation my friend

No, I will still drink coffee. I'm sure there are books and reports that say everything we eat and drink is poisonous and will kill us one day. Strange how our lifespans are still increasing regardless of scaremongering books.

I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate !!

Whilst I rather detest starbucks for semi-political 'anti-usa and their subtle hidden agenda in Hollywood films etc' reasons, I do like Costa and Caffe Nero which are both British owned, and also serve pleasant coffee in a nice atmosphere.
The problem with local independent shops is that when away from home, the chains provide a known experience, and there are a number of awful small cafes as well as good ones, so unless I'm sure of the quality of the coffee and ability of the barista, I'd rather stick to a chain until back home.
We have only one decent small coffee shop where I live, two reasonable if stuck, and three awful ones, so not so good for coffee loving tourists.

And why is that? I like my heavily over-roasted, black and oily bean coffee under/over-extracted by heavily trained (at pressing buttons on till) disinterested baristas, tasting of fag ash with splodge of white stuff on top pretending to be microfoam

i will mate, dont you worry about that.

​i disagree , I go to Costa and buy a bucket of coffee which is tasty .I can then go to a small uber trendy independent coffee shop and get a tiny wee cup with average Luke warm coffee for the same price !! Big bad American chain coffee shops all the way for me !! I honestly would love to support small independent cool coffee shops but they never seem to get the basics right .

i take it you run your own cafe?!!

lmao

When I get the train to work

#notdaft

All that with a Take-away coffee as well,that's very impressive :-/

Does she read as well ?

Did she watch sesame street as a child?

There's an app for free coffee at IKEA??!! Why have you kept this knowledge to your self for so long?! ;-)

​go to waitrose instead

Yes, just ask for a small.....

Yours is not a cup, it is a bloody BOTTLE!

Agreed. It's pretty damn disgusting really given how often people wash their hands even after a visit to the toilets. To Starbucks' credit though, hmm, can't think of anything apart from having enough caffeine in your drink so you get it out of your system quicker. I believe in the law of infinite solubility though :stuck_out_tongue:

3 am, posting in a trashbucks thread - what a sad life i lead. I need a proper brew now :smile:

I suppose you have a choice, deal with a bit of potential bacteria (which your body is designed to deal with) from a cup/person that sat there before - it gets cleaned) or deal with contaminating the water you drink, by contaminated landfill seepage into water supplies. Those landfilled disposable cups have to go somewhere (and that somewhere sits on a water table of a water source, that you and I drink).

Haven't read any reports yet of people dying from the re-use of Plastic bags at checkouts in supermarkets yet. The Daily Mail must have missed that one, considering how long Wales has had that measure in force.

Hey you're not supposed to reveal it until after 12 midday, otherwise bad luck will, come your way.