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You've heard of the Pepsi challenge? Well this is the SBC
challenge. We create a taste test between Seattle's Best
Coffee and some of Seattle's other coffees. We go to
Rockefeller Center and we set up a small table and we put out
a thermos full of SBC and another thermos filled with another
Seattle
area coffee. Altogether, we put out about four or five
thermoses filled with coffee from around the Seattle area. We
taste test them and through votes, we determine whether
Seattle's Best Coffee is in fact Seattle's Best Coffee.
Best Coffee
http://www.peets.com
Peets coffee is the best. [iuvare, Feb 08 2001]
All things caffeinated
http://www.thinkgee...stuff/caffeine.html
[absterge, Feb 08 2001]
Too Much Coffee Man
http://www.toomuchc...micnavframeset.html
The Caffeinated Super Hero (Edited 9/22/01 to update change link location) [mwburden, Feb 08 2001]
Too Much Coffee Man's idea of Hell
http://www.toomuchc.../024_reallydead.gif
What Hell really means. Remember, TMCM's motto is: "Don't drink crappy coffee!" (Edited 9/22/01 to update changed link location) [mwburden, Feb 08 2001]
article from yesterday
http://www.guardian...273,4232490,00.html
the coffee chains are taking us over, basically. [lewisgirl, Feb 08 2001]
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The "Seattle's Best Coffee" brand is owned by AFC Enterprises, Inc., who are based in Atlanta, GA. Ironically, when they were actually a local company, they were known as "Smith Brothers' Coffee" (same initials -- SBC). |
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AFC also own "Cinnabon" and a few other franchise food chains. |
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There's a couple of Cinnabon's in malls near me. I hate their technique: |
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Eject all of their off gases into the hallway near the washroom. That way, if you're cleaning up after your meal, you brain ALWAYS says "You have to have Cinnabon. Now. Quickly". |
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I swear they must put some kind of drug that we've all become dependent on in that gas. |
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And if your survey shows that SBC is not Seattles best coffee...? |
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Peets coffee is the best coffee around, period. |
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They operate out of Berkeley and, incidentally, taught the Starbucks people how to roast. |
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Oh, so, Peets must have been where Starbucks learned to overroast (burn) their coffee. |
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You know, it's all just coffee. |
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Dude, no it's not! It's not! Peet's is the best coffee ever and I should know, I drink it every morning, I love the stuff! My apartment is sparkling clean, I get all my work done in the first five minutes of my workday, and I swear to God I swear I'm really close to knowing the meaning of life! All this on two and a half hours of sleep a night! Way!!! |
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actually, Rods, try thinkgeek. They've got an assortment of non-coffeenated caffeine articles. |
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Seattle's Best tastes way
better than than Peets (whose
coffee is just as overpowering
and bitter tasting as its
intrepid student Starbucks). |
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I heard about a guy who drank a cup of Seattle's Best Coffee and died 5 years later. I used to think it was a mere coincidence but now it's all coming together. |
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I had my first taste of Seattle's Best Coffee in Atlanta's Worst Coffeehouse. So its goodness may have been relative. And while I'm partial to Starbucks Sumatra, it's the industrial-strength sturdiness of Royal Cup that really makes the day zip along. |
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Yep. Thinkgeek has tons of caffeinated stuff. including syrup. I believe the syrup has something like 100mg of caffeine per oz. something like that. maybe more concentrated. |
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Sumatran rocks. My fiancee has a friend who Knows People and can get Starbucks' stuff right off the ship. |
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Besides, their sticker for it has a black tiger with white stripes. But that's just serendipity... |
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The best thing about Seattle's Best Coffee is that you can walk into a Starbucks and ask, "Is this Seattle's best coffee?" and they have to say, "No". |
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You know, now that I re-read it, I think 1percent's anno above is a classic. |
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The best coffee is not from some hyped up megamanufacturer, it is good quality beans roasted in front of your eyes, then ground and brewed.
Consult your local independent bean roaster and see the difference yourself. |
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Sight for sore eyes, beans getting ground up. And there is a sort of fanfare towards the end. Sound for sore ears. |
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*pottedstu sobs quietly into mug of Nescafe* |
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