The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever

[GuyInTaiwan]

http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/most-expensive-starbucks-drink-ever-23-60-plus-214200067.html

Yikes! Has this guy slept since, despite not finishing it?

[Dragonbones]

The article also mentioned that [quote]A recent survey estimated that the average American spends about $1000 on coffee a year. [/quote]

That’s absurd! We drink coffee every day, buying good beans from a roaster, and probably spend US$150 annually on them. Add another $75 for the depreciation on my grinder and espresso machine, and you’re still looking at under a quarter of that $1000.

[GuyInTaiwan]

I think it’s crazy too. A lot of people buy their coffee from from a cafe instead of making it at home or at work. If they’re paying $3 for a cup of coffee, I can see how they’d spend $1,000/year on coffee. Absolutely insane. Then again, people eat out a lot too when they could make food at home. My cousin used to spend an insane amount on takeaway food and snacks just because he was too lazy to even make a sandwich for himself. Many people manage to squander small fortunes over the course of a lifetime in just this way. What’s even crazier is just how much the economy depends upon it.

[Tigerman]

It is crazy! I pay NT$ 10 per cup for fresh ground coffee at my office.

[ChewDawg]

I’ll treat myself to one latte a day for $3.50 at the artisanal coffee shop by my office where they don’t scald the lattes (they should be warm to hot, but not boiling hot or near boiling hot–ruins the steamed milk). In case my disciples such as Almas John think I’ve turned soft or into a latte liberal, I assure you that I choose the one artisanal coffee joint in town that doesn’t label itself as a “fair trade” shop. As if some dipshit do-gooder from a suburban location in a first world country actually has the brainpower to properly audit a developing world locale and how they treat their farmers. I find such labels to be complete horse shit and only appeal to mindless suburban bubble-living hipsters.

The rest of the day I’ll sip high mountain tea from Taiwan. For coffee that’s about $20US a week or $80 bucks a month. With a month or so of holidays and personal days, that’s about $880 a year. I give just over $1000 in charity. I always think people should give to charity slightly more than they pay for their coffee/tea habit.

[tempogain]

The cheap costco beans are too decent to pass up for me. The blue mountain one is good enough to drink black. There’s a columbian one that’s not bad either.

[GuyInTaiwan]

@ChewDawg

As if some dipshit do-gooder from a suburban location in a first world country actually has the brainpower to properly audit a developing world locale and how they treat their farmers. I find such labels to be complete horse shit and only appeal to mindless suburban bubble-living hipsters.

Precisely my point about eco-tourism, organic food and all the rest of the crap people go on about in the middle class these days.

[ChewDawg]

@GuyInTaiwan

[quote=“ChewDawg”]As if some dipshit do-gooder from a suburban location in a first world country actually has the brainpower to properly audit a developing world locale and how they treat their farmers. I find such labels to be complete horse shit and only appeal to mindless suburban bubble-living hipsters.

Precisely my point about eco-tourism, organic food and all the rest of the crap people go on about in the middle class these days.[/quote]

But it assuages their liberal guilt and makes them feel good! Who cares about the logic? If you buy organic food, you are helping small farmers and are eating healthier regardless of whether farming organic food is actually hurting the environment more and its benefits negligible. Likewise, if you believe in global warming, you are helping to raise awareness of the issue and saving the earth even if it impossible to prove and only serves to waste money by creating bigger government departments and free conferences. It’s the thought that counts, not the reality.

If only they could buy a brain.

[superking]

What is crazy is that billions of people on this planet are addicted to caffeine. Sure, cocaine is deemed as an evil killer, but most people on the planet drink the equivalent of a few lines of coke just to get them out of bed each day,

I have been smugly caffeine free for years. A coffee would put me on the ceiling.

[Belgian_Pie]

Here’s how his one drink bill broke down: one Java Chip Frappucino ($4.75), plus 16 shots of espresso($12), a shot of soy milk(.60), a drop of caramel flavoring(.50), a scoop of banana puree($1), another scoop of strawberry puree(.60), a few vanilla beans(.50), a dash of Matcha powder(.75), some protein powder(.50) and a caramel and mocha drizzle to cap it off(.60).

That’s not a drink, that’s what’s called ‘PUKE’ in most places on this globe … the stuff coming from your stomach after throwing up … :loco:

[Belgian_Pie]

If you buy organic food, you are helping small farmers and are eating healthier regardless of whether farming organic food is actually hurting the environment more and its benefits negligible.

Why do you assume only small farmers are growing organic food?

[headhonchoII]

Organic farming is becoming big business, the problem comes from things like growing tomatoes in Mexico for shipment to Canada. Fair trade has its place but it’s mostly a bunch of horse shit. To an Asian fair trade means getting something at a good price.