Does anyone actually go to Starbucks to drink coffee? [EREH STEKCIT]

I've never been to Starbucks, although a hotel I was at served Starbucks coffee for their breakfast.

...What's a coffee?

I live rural so my local internet is, naturally, terrible and has a crazy low monthly limit. So my interest in Starbucks is free wifi.

I don't go regularly.. and I never get "just a coffee" I tend towards the blended drinks or espresso style things (wich to be fair... are probably more sugar than coffee but whatever). I own an espresso machine but so far every time I've tried to find a good local source of beans... their coffee always tasted like piss. At least at starbucks their medium roasts are "ok". Back east I had some amazing coffee from some local roasters (they're actually how I got INTO coffee.. since I worked in a giftshoppe that was attached to their building and the roasting smell would waft through and they got offended at my dunkin doughnuts chai one day and told me to try a real drink)

Anyway, short of it is, I've never tried starbucks regular coffee, their espresso drinks are "ok" for the price. and their medium roast beans (for the love of all things coffee don't do dark roasts ever) are decent... at the very least they're consistent until I can get my hands on something better that doesn't require me to spend an arm and a leg in shipping.

once. to see what all the hoopla was about. it's a fucking apple of the coffees

Well, I am from The Netherlands.
Our coffeeshops sell better stuff than starbucks.

Only thing thats worth buying at Starbucks is a frappuccino.

I did a few times.. Just to see on my own that the expensive it is, the worse it is..

I have no Starbucks here, but I have HELL EXPENSIVE "Coffeeshop Company", same shit I guess, but at least they are making delicious coffee.BTW they stole SB logo I guess ( Wikipedia )

AAAAAAAnd I prefer to cook coffee for myself at home w/ stove top coffee maker (if I named it right)

I have never been in a Starbucks and have no plans to. That's like buying a pair of $400 sunglasses because it says Gucci or Oakley on them.

I don't drink their sugary water. Or better, I drink it, but just for the sugar and not for the caffeine (or lack of it).

I'll pour myself another cup of coffee.

It is more expensive, so it must be better

Starbucksclosed all ( at least as far as i know) brancheswhere i'm from.
Expensive crap coffee' i like to think we have good taste buds :-) but probably we are too cheap, today you get a coffee for about 1.25$

I mostly go there with friends and such

certainly not for their coffee

I don't drink coffee.

PS: where is the poll?

I'm from Italy, so here Starbucks isn't popular at all. Italian coffee is really different.

Actually I know there's a restricted amount of shops on the territory, but I only got once to a Starbucks shop and it was in Spain.
Even then, I just bought a mug.

EDIT: I guess it doesn't even count. xD

I remember years ago. Probably close to 10 years. Starbucks slowly popped up and someone who was around at the time told me "Dude you gotta try the frappucino, it's so good!" and it was, but paying close to 10 bucks for instant diabetes is a little much. I never bought it again.
I really enjoy a good coffee, but only drink it black and when they hand me coffee out of a big coffee machine, premade and heated I'm very disappointed. For the price I'd expect an americana made fresh, just for me.
Been there maybe 4 times but it has always been for the people I know, never went there because I said "Oh, wow, I really want to go there now!".
I can pay way less and get the same thing at every freakin' little kiosk I see.

Edit: Oh, I think I have been there alone once when I was travelling and used it for WiFi when I didn't have internet access included in my phone contract.

I went once, the coffee that I've got was 60% milk and 30% sugar and the rest was coffee I think, it was horrible for that amount of money.
I have my own coffee machine now, but I'm enjoying tea more recently.

I can't drink coffee, but I've gone a few times with friends, and their tea is alright, as long as you ask for no sugar.

I do in USA.. but when i got back home to canada.. It's always tim horton.

i think i had a frappucino once in a starbucks while waiting at the airport to pick up some people. its nice but wouldnt go to a starbucks in general.

I like how a lot of people in the thread tell that they go there for free Wi-Fi, but where I live they don't even have free Wi-Fi, you need to pay for it.

That said, yeah, the best coffee I've ever tried at local roasters (who sell roasted beans and also serve coffee), being kinda religious-experience-level-of-pure-awe good, costed me less than Starbucks coffee.

I purposely limit myself to 2 cups of coffee per week to avoid becoming addicted to caffeine. My wife and I have been trying to use up her gift card that she received for her birthday 5 years ago, but we just don't ever go to Starbucks. :D Brewing a cup as I write this...