My apologies, Olunia, didn’t realize you were talking about a beverage.
I’ve not heard of an alcoholic Blue Collar Tea.
I’ve had Jägertee in Austria. Very popular at ski resorts.
Some restaurants offer an alcoholic tea called Blueberry Tea, made with Earl Grey.
It’s all good Prima,
I have had Blueberry tea yet prefer a shot a scotch or whiskey instead.
A childhood friend was from Australia and I remember her asking if I wanted to go have “Tea”.
I shot her such a strange look because I was looking to go out for Supper, not realizing that for her Tea meant an evening meal.
It very much depends on which chain. If I do have coffee at a chain then my first choice is Cafe Nero, who still major in coffee. In this case its a flat white with their single origin beans ( currently from Peru) and an apricot Danish.
For Pret a Manger, who I think have too dark a roast and overheat their milk, it’s a filter coffee and a egg and veg roll to eat.
For Costa and Starbucks, it’s a cortado. All the other milk drinks are far too milky. No food I these places.
Sadly these have been gone from NYC for decades now. There was a short renaissance in the early 2000s but that came and went. The shops were a little before my time, but the date nut bread they served was a favorite of older family members.
I remember the sign was still there. Chock Full O’Nuts ground coffee was our coffee at home until they stopped selling it in Canada, maybe in the early 90s.
Looks like a few Chock Full O Nuts Cafés still are in operation
http://places.singleplatform.com/chock-cafe-8/menu?ref=google
Aren’t you kind. Thank you. The feeling is mutual. By and large what minimal pot stirring goes on here has an underlying note of humor, a very hard thing to convey in a short post!
Interesting! I didn’t know they licensed the name for this. I see the date nut bread is on one of the menus… wonder if it’s the same as my great aunts used to enjoy.
I rarely visit mass chains for coffee, but I usually go for a latte. The only drink I would go out of my way to get at Starbucks was the holiday gingerbread latte. They killed that about 2 years ago though, so I’m back to never having a reason to visit Starbucks unless I’m on the road.
If Dunkin’s is the only other coffee place around, I get their dark roast.
I tried the iced pumpkin chai latte with cow milk at Starbucks. Not bad.
New seasonal drinks at Canadian Starbucks, in November 2024.
I stuck with my Grande non-fat (skim milk) cappuccino topped with cinnamon, and a Sausage and Egg Breakfast Sandwich today. That’s costing $11.53 CAD at one London, Ontario Starbucks.
Prices for the same size coffee vary at Canadian Starbucks, even from location to location in the same city.
In the UK:
I have never had a good coffee in Starbucks. I once had a grumpy moment in a Starbucks because the flat white was made so poorly. When I complained, the barista offered to make me another one. I said if he was going to be the one making it, then no, as he clearly had no idea how to make a flat white. There was no other barista available and they didn’t offer a refund. I’ve never set foot in a Starbucks again.
Costa - I always get a cortado. Most of the time it’s made well. On the rare occasion I’ve complained, another barista has made it again correctly.
Vietnam:
Not a big fan of Highlands Coffees or Katinat.
I like the chain Cộng Cà Phê, and my go to order there is the Bạc Xỉu, which is a concoction of Vietnamese coffee, condensed milk and coconut milk with pebbles of ice interspersed throughout.
Or their iced black coffee.
If I am in Starbucks, I get iced black tea, no sugar.
In Dunkin Donuts, large or extra large coffee with milk, no sugar or iced coffee, milk no sugar.
Peet’s Coffee’s seasonal drinks have dropped and include Sparkling Peppermint Vanilla Cold Brew and a “Bar Menu”, with such items as The Derby (espresso, maple syrup, non-alcoholic bourbon flavor, and a cream float).
My Grande non-fat cappuccino and a bacon, Gouda and egg breakfast sandwich is running $12.09 Canadian these days.
Are you guys tipping at Starbucks? I’ve been rounding up to the next dollar at Starbucks or Second Cup lately.
I tip around $0.75- $1 on a cappuccino, or 12%- 15% on a bigger order at my indie coffee shops.
New products.
I tried the breakfast sandwich. Not bad! I would order it again. (So much for me quitting Starbucks. I went 13 days without)
What are the green flecks in the sandwich? Spinach?
I’m not a Starbucks fan. I cannot get along with their coffee.
I believe that’s pesto.
Hmmmm. Not sure I’d get on with their sandwiches either.
I know virtually no fans of *$ coffee, but loads of folks seem to like their food. IMO coffee has a tipping point. If you use less grounds than the tipping point, it tastes thin. At the point, it tastes as good as that particular coffee can taste. Over the tipping point it quickly takes on a terrible bitter note, and the acidity gets way out of control, even with dark roasts. *$ seems to err on the side of way too much grounds. It also seems to be brewed too hot. Yuck. Their espresso drinks, pulled by robo-barista machines, are just sad, and their milkshake espresso drinks are just weird, very weak coffee flavor unless you spring for extra shots.
I love going into a local coffee place where the earnest barista is justifiably proud of their Cimbali, La Marzocco, Slayer, or whatever and prouder still of his/her/their ability to pull an amazing shot, one where adding a little sugar never crosses your mind. If said shop also has good croissants, I may dash the barista’s feelings and make it a cappuccino.
Basil Pesto 
I have been ordering their breakfast sandwiches and breakfast bite for years. I don’t tend to order any sweet pastries these days. The mozzarella, pesto and egg sandwich is a new breakfast sandwich offering in Ontario. There are usually around 3 or 4 choices of breakfast sandwich available.
We don’t have Costa, Café Nero or Pret in southwestern Ontario.
If I’m going out for coffee specifically, I choose an indie coffee shop when I can. But those shops don’t have drive thrus and they aren’t located on my way to the highway/ freeway.
If I’m getting a drive thru snack before a 3 hour drive, I usually stop at McD’s or Starbucks.
