I wish they would just accept that they do have good coffee but, they will never be Starbucks. DD is DD, SB is SB.

This may be just enough to push me over to Green Mountain Coffee sold at the local White Hen Pantry for about half the price. And it’s organic, fair trade coffee besides. I had a discussion with someone a few days ago about DD and their prices, which seem to go up every six months. This person suggested Green Mountain coffee. I tried it and it’s very, very good.

Ouch.  Even S*bucks doesn’t go whole hog for flavored coffees ... if you want a non-coffee flavor in your java (a concept I find to be entirely nonsensical), add a shot of one of their syrups or whatever they are.

Yes, Green Mountain is quite good, and the company is growing.  I think their products are even available out here in some stores. 

Which isn’t to say that I buy from them.  I’m a devotee of the rich, dark-roasted, inexpensive Fair Trade coffee I find at Trader Joe’s.

Finally, I can’t leave without mentioning that not everyone can take a two-minute stroll to Lighthouse Coffee Roasters for great coffee and communality.  Ah, Seattle…

Oh yes, Lighthouse Coffee Roasters where I had THE BEST latte EVER. It is the standard by which all others fail.

Now if we could just get a Trader Joe’s within a half a day’s journey of here....

I worked (briefly) for a coffee company out here.  It sold all manner of flavored coffees, but the best-seller by far was a simple Kona coffee.  If I remember rightly, Kona Macadamia Nut was the second-best.  I should write up that experience as my first real exposure to globalization in manufacturing; the components of that 5-oz bag of coffee came from about six different places.

From within the confines of Hawaii or other places? Does that mean the little bags of Kona coffee that tourists bring back for friends and family may not be entirely Hawaiian Kona? That kind of globalization?

No, it was Kona, Hawai’i farmed coffee.  But the flavorings were from Germany, the bags from Italy, the alligator clips to hold the bags shut after opening from Taiwan, the case boxes from Hawai’i, and the non-Kona coffee from South America, Indonesia, etc.

ugh!
I’m glad someone else sees it!

See it and don’t like it one bit.

I so miss my Trader Joe’s coffee! It has been one of the hardest adjustments to make since moving back here. Kate let me know when you want to take the (what is it almost 3 hours away?) trek to TJ’s. It will have to be after X-mas though, as I will have to save a few hundred dollars, at least. I used to do 3/4 of my weekly shopping there when I was in CA LOL. Sigh.

And see what? What the heck am I missing?

Seeing DD’s stupid, idiotic use of feminine stereotypes to sell their stupid flavored coffees which was the whole stupid point of the whole stupid post. Grrrrrr.

Hey, justme, it really isn’t all that far to the TJ’s in Tyngsboro—out 495 to Rt. 3, then a few exits north.  I used to go there fairly regularly, though I admit that it was often on the way back from a trip to western MA.  The “full afternoon” is the time it takes to go there, shop till you drop, and then drive back.

I’ve also shopped at the TJ’s in Cambridge, which is right on Memorial Drive, west of the BU Bridge and east of Harvard.

I thought TJ was supposed to be building a store somewhere close by in New Hampshire. I haven’t checked lately, but I don’t think it’s built yet or I’d probably have heard. Wish they’d hurry.

J, any time you want to go, I’m there. They have the best dark chocolate ever. And wines. And cheeses. And coffees. And stuff I’ve probably forgotten about because it’s been so long since I’ve gone there.

Oooh! There’s one in Peabody, right by NorthShore Mall. Where we were last night!!! Nuts.

Ever since I burned my mouth on DD’s hot chocolate in south Jersey, I’ve not been keen on them.  I waited a full 15 minutes before ever taking a sip, and my sip was tiny, yet it burned my tongue so badly that I couldn’t taste anything right for 2 weeks solid.

They should have a label on their cups saying “One sip, and your tongue will be so damaged that you’ll gladly lick the boot of your vastly superior male fellows.” haha.

OMFG, Peabody! Are you for real? OH I am jumping up and down in my seat lol. And I was so excited to read from N that there was one in Cambridge! I was plotting a sneak to that one in my head as I read it for the next trip to MA Gen LOL. But Peabody, dear gawd hold me back! E is going to be almost as excited as me, almost. We so have to go there very soon.

oh and I did get the point of the post. I thought I might have missed a comment, and then you removed it! You know me I just can’t be left out LOL!

LOL, see I am so excited I am messing up my gravatars!

Not even a half an hour away and I found a short cut. Yeah me! Wanna go before Christmas now?

Well that’s just a stupid question! I am thinking if E works all weekend, again, that that would be a perfect time to go! Oh I can just taste that coffee now! So how is Saturday for you?

Saturday sounds pretty good to me!

I work at DD and we are a lot cheaper than starbucks and we do all the work for you. we have more of a selection then them and we have healthy options.  To think that we are targeting women is a waste of brain power.  We simply came out with it becuase we had flavored grounds and they sold the most so we decided to add to the choice.  There is nothing wrong with a 1/32 ounce of flavoring into a coffee so it can be enjoyed.
I recently went to a starbuck and bought thier iced coffee. I asked if they put liquid sugar in it so it would sweeten the coffee.  They just looked at me and said we can put normal sugar in it.  I had replied with “why do that? the sugar will never dissolve.” they stared and had no idea what i was talking about.  congrats starbucks, you hire idiots.