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Costa were in the news for selling a coffee with more calories in it than a double cheeseburger. But then McDonalds, I think, already sell more coffee than any
by cs02rm0 8y ago
Costa were in the news for selling a coffee with more calories in it than a double cheeseburger.
But then McDonalds, I think, already sell more coffee than anyone else in the UK, so I guess they're converging from both directions.
- Steve44 8y agoI don't have sales figures but a lot of people I know who travel a lot say that, in the UK at least, the McDonalds is pretty good. It's certainly their favourite balance with price and quality, these are proper black coffee drinkers too, not the bucket of sugar & cream types.
- mgkimsal 8y agosome of my "just black coffee" friends tell me the same thing - mcdonalds coffee is a good combination of taste and value. they all prefer something else, but mcd ends up being the 'go to' because it's known, it's not bad, and doesn't cost too much (which, typing that out, is probably the same for many of their menu items - not 'best in class', but a decent enough product).
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- bena 8y agoI'll vouch. It's cheap, black, and hot. All a proper coffee really needs to be. McDonalds is also focused on churn. Get up, say what you want, get out. None of the half-pump soy chai latte no whip cinnamon dust in the freezer for 1.5 seconds kind of wackiness. Just a blearily slurred "small coffee" will get you what you want.
- chosenbreed 8y agoYeah...I think the McDonald's double expresso is great value for money.
- rexpress 8y agoMcDonald's double espresso poured over a 99p sundae (plain, just ice cream) makes for a decent cut-price affogato.
- matwood 8y agoMy coffee drink of choice is a plain hot latte (good black coffee is also fine). McDonalds coffee is fine, but not as consistent as a Starbucks. With McDonalds you're a bit at the whim of the machine and if the person operating it has done all the right steps. McDonalds is also a $1 or more less expensive.
- yomly 8y agoI always struggle with the doublethink that a "coffee" (that is, a black coffee) has nearly 0 calories. But a "coffee" (that is a drink that is really fat and sugar with some coffee added there) could have x calories where x is a stupidly large number...
- mgkimsal 8y agoyeah, even 'coffee' with milk is... the calories of milk. and I like a lot of milk in my coffee. or... I like a bit of coffee with my milk, to be more precise. so i've needed to watch how many I have. can't really deal with plain black coffee.
- yomly 8y agoyou should really have a go at persisting with black coffee - it's definitely acquired, but I really can't imagine coffee any other way.
- tomatotomato37 8y agoBlack coffee is nice... when the actual coffee is nice. It doesn't take too long after the switch to realize the random kuerig selection offered at your office does not fit that category.
- stephenhuey 8y agoYes, I didn’t get into coffee till college and sugary stuff was my gateway, but I knew people enjoyed black coffee and made a concerted effort to develop a taste for it, and now I really can detect subtleties in single origin beans similar to what wine enthusiasts experience. Occasionally I have coffee with milk, especially if it’s bad coffee, but my taste buds thinks of that as something else entirely. Find a coffee shop with some helpful but OCD baristas who will take the time with you to give you good samples of pour over or French press or chemex, etc to see if they can win you over to “black” coffee. The benefits in the end outweigh any effort you might have to put in!
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- jfaioif3 8y agohttps://i.imgur.com/iRUP48j.png https://i.imgur.com/iRUP48j.png
- tyu100 8y agoMcDonalds (brewed) coffee always wins the blind taste tests that Canadian newspapers put on between the big chains.