Many recent studies found coffee is healthy as fuck:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/9-reasons-why-the-right-amount-of-coffee-is-good-for-you

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/11/431036/coffee-safe-for-a-fib

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/coffee-may-improve-gut-health/

Some folks think it means Starbucks is good. NOPE.

Starbucks isn’t coffee. It’s actually trash:

Real coffee is this:

Also:

  • Tea is also great and healthy. Tea is not addictive.

  • If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.

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    If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.

    Got it, don’t drink cappuccino after 11, only espresso.

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      I have a friend like this, not the time frame but his constant mantra of “I don’t drink coffee, but I have an espresso everyday”

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    Starbucks can eat a giant bag of dicks.

    But you can buy “just coffee” there and even though it tastes like it was filtered through my ass crack, it’s no different than other coffee.

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    Nothing wrong with Starbucks coffee. It’s the mixed drinks with some coffee added that are a problem. They are mainly sugar water and other artificial stuff. Tea flavoured drinks are just as bad. Real tea or coffee cannot be mistaken for a pop or milkshake.

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        You don’t like coffee. Over roasted and too bitter are comments from people who don’t like coffee.

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          I like coffee, and I avoid over-roasted beans and hate especially bitter coffee.

          Over roasted: Burn the fuck out of your low-quality beans so that all flavor nuance is lost and every batch tastes identical.

          Too bitter: Over extracted during brewing. It’s a skill issue, and even the darkest roasted beans can be prepared without excessive bitterness.

          For me, an over-extracted coffee is never acceptable, but I don’t hate over-roasted beans if I’m at a breakfast diner.

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    Soook much misinformation… In no particular order:

    • Starbucks is a brand, not any specific beverage or even type of drink. You sound like a boomer saying “a Nintendo”
    • You don’t even try to give a reason for your arbitrary 11 AM cutoff time. Zero sources as well.
    • YSK is for facts, not biased opinions.
    • Almost every coffee shop that sells coffee also sells sweetened and frozen coffee drinks, with similar caloric/sugar content.
    • Your own link clarifies that the right amount of coffee is good for you, an important distinction.
    • Saying Starbucks is not coffee doesn’t make sense, but it’s also blatantly false. Their coffee-based drinks are obviously made with “real coffee” and it’s easily provable. Just like every other coffee shop.
    • There’s no sources for what you say about tea.
    • Saying a brand is trash is 100% opinion. Plenty of people don’t like them, but putting that in the post shows how your prejudiced opinion shouldn’t be listened to.
    • There’s no source for the cherry-picked drink contents.
    • Saying a brand is good or bad is (again) complete opinion, so a conclusion can’t be reached.
    • Opinions aren’t facts. My opinion is your post is shit.
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      The difference between medicine and poison is the dosage.

      • Your own link clarifies that the right amount of coffee is good for you, an important distinction.
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      I agree with everything except for this part:

      Almost every coffee shop that sells coffee also sells sweetened and frozen coffee drinks, with similar caloric/sugar content.

      You wouldn’t find another coffee shop in my city that sells anything comparable to the sugar-milk-coffee drinks from Starbucks. An affogato or caffè freddo probably has less than half the amount of sugar. They have pastries that dissolve your enamel within three bites though.

      But to reiterate, wrong community for this post.

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      as someone from brazil, the whole concept of american gourmet coffee scares me, my grandma puts too much sugar on her coffee but americans are something else

      that aint coffee, thats fucking high caffeine milkshake

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          Go sit at a Starbucks with your “just a plain, regular coffee, none of this Frappuccino half-caff double-whip soy latte crap” order. You’ll see plenty of men grabbing the same coffee milkshakes as women. They’re all attracted to it the same way they’re all attracted to milkshakes: for being a tasty drink. The only difference is some men are embarrassed to admit it’s fine to enjoy a Frappuccino. Or a sweet cocktail, for that mater. And yet, if you make a sweet, fruity, caffeine drink but put it in a scary container, suddenly it’s manly to drink Monster, right?

          It’s really not that complicated.

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        Dude if you can try Colombian coffee, don’t need no gourmet just buy what you can find. I love sello Rojo, it’s less strong than pilão but has more taste.

        As for American coffee, the things I tried when travelling didn’t taste like coffee at all. Everywhere I go that has this American style coffee capsules I have to put 2 expressos to even find the coffee smell, and that’s from a Brazilian that thinks pilão is strong.

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          Capsules?

          You mean that stupid machine with the pods? Yea, fuck that, its not good. And its expensive per serving.

          Even plain drip coffee is better than that crap if you buy good coffee.

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        You won’t like Vietnamese coffee then. I’m open to it, but in very small amounts. It’s very sweet and they add lots of condensed milk. In the end, it doesn’t really resemble coffee that much.

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    Starbucks sells espresso and Americanos.

    No is is forcing you to go to Starbucks and buy a warm Dairy Queen sundae.

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    Says “coffee is good but Starbucks is trash” while showing sugar-laden concoctions that can be served at most any chain coffee shop and plenty of indy shops will sell you whipped-cream-topped drinks aside from Starbucks, and not showing that you can indeed buy just a plain cup of coffee from Starbucks.

    I’m not saying anyone should support union-busting Starbucks, but this is a crap post to single out Starbucks.

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    Same for chocolate.

    Incorporating actual cocoa-dense dark chocolate into a regular part of my diet has been an absolute game changer. I have so much more energy and focus than I used to, I’m practically a morning person now lol

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      Seriously? In what amounts? I’m the opposite of a morning person, if the solution is this tasty simple, I’m game!

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    Starbucks intentionally over roasts their beans well past the ideal roasting point. They do this to ensure a consistent flavor across locations, but to me it just tastes like shitty burnt coffee.

    At the end of the day, Starbucks is a coffee chain in name only. Their menu is largely milk-based and many of their products happen to have some coffee in them, so I guess it doesn’t matter too much if the coffee component is sub-par.

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      They have light roasts. You can order one.

      Maybe go for the blonde instead of the French roast.

      You realize they sell more than one kind of coffee… Right?

      Coffee without cream should be a sin. 😘

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    IMO Starbucks drinks are sugary poison, and even their regular black coffee is just not good. Not to mention their questionable ethics.

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      I buy whole coffee beans from a local roaster but a few times I’ve run out and walked to the Starbucks around the corner to purchase a small package of whole beans.

      When I grind them they seem very oily and almost too soft somehow. That might be normal (I really don’t know) but for whatever reason it gives me heartburn (which I rarely have).

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    Starbucks is just poisonous, big time. On top of that, their logo is a pagan goddess (a fertility goddess, oddly enough), which tells you their items are witchcraft.

    For coffee, I hadn’t tried it, but I heard bulletproof coffee is good. To make it “bulletproof”, just add butter and MCT oil to your normal coffee. I tend to drink tea a lot, to be fair.