

That's Seattle for you, guys. If you lived here...you may need coffee to survive the winter basically. It's not the rain (we rank 57th in the US for average annual rainfall), it's the cloudiness and darkness cause lots of people to feel tired and sleepy so that's why we have a lot of coffee shops than anywhere in the US, if not the world. We rank 4th in the US for the most cloudy metro area at a whopping 227 days a year on average. Astoria, Oregon ranks 1st with 240 days a year.
Byrdie714;951521 . . . $15.00? C'mon! Would you pay for it?[/QUOTE said:No, I wouldn't, and I have to have my morning coffee.
Trendy coffee shops are conspicuous consumption, showy extravagance by people with too much money to impress nameless others that money is no object. $15-a-cup coffee is just letting these show-offs pay more for their conceits.
On a smaller scale, the same is true with bottled water. All that expense and waste of plastic for water that's been tested to be no better than tap water in northwestern America.
On another scale, it's buyng MonaVie at $35 a bottle when you can get the same benefit from picking your own Oregon blackberries and running them through a blender.
As P.T. Barnum so aptly phrased . . . and Reba implies, "There's a sucker born every minute."
That may be the case but at $15.00?
C'mon! Would you pay for it?
That's Seattle for you, guys. If you lived here...you may need coffee to survive the winter basically. It's not the rain (we rank 57th in the US for average annual rainfall), it's the cloudiness and darkness cause lots of people to feel tired and sleepy so that's why we have a lot of coffee shops than anywhere in the US, if not the world. We rank 4th in the US for the most cloudy metro area at a whopping 227 days a year on average. Astoria, Oregon ranks 1st with 240 days a year.


Pop culture at its worst!