I guess it’s relative to who is the one considering. I don’t consider them high end, but I sure do consider them outrageously expensive. Talk to a 17 year old kid who got hooked on the “coffee with all the fixins” and they’ll tell you they love it. $5, no problem. Think of all the crap that $5 buys you: sugar, sugar, sugar, and a sweet maraschino cherry on top. I cringe just thinking about it.
Coffee… cup. My fave. MM-MM good.
Out here at mom‘s house, this is my go to mug. Yep, she‘s a classy old gal.
I share your disdain for Starbucks. There is a plethora of reasons, including over-roasting, urban and suburban blight, execrable “food”, extortionate prices, and vicious labor practices. The orders I placed yesterday were my first with SB in 3 years. May it be far longer in the future!
I will say, though, that SB deserves credit for bringing coffee culture to vast swaths of USA, and habituated us to going out of our way to avoid canned and weak coffee.
I like mugs (and any glassware/barware for that matter) with thin rims. I have a number of white mugs from Home Home Goods that I use, they are probable 14oz. capacity.
Just awesome.
Would you go $11 for a 2-pound bag? Costco’s Kirkland brand espresso roast hits a freshness, flavor and price sweet spot for us. It’s roasted by SB, but not as dark and oily as SB-branded. Works well in the several brewing methods we use.
The truly artisanal coffee in our local markets fetches up to $21 per pound. That equates to $42 versus $11. At our consumption rate, that’s throwing away about $500 per year.
Favorite to drink from, or favorite to look at ? 
OMG, I adore that. Might get me in some ehat with kids around, but it’d make a good jail coffee cup.
That much is true.
I’d pay for good coffee. Our local organic artisanal is up to $25 for a 12 oz bag. Sounds like you’ve found your sweet spot. I would share in your glory if I had a Costco nearby. I have nothing against 8 o’clock. I like Berres Brothers where I live. Spendy, but good. A 2 lb bag would last me three weeks. Lesseeeee here, tree guzinta leven tree times, den minus dah nine from leven, den to, dot zero, den it guzinta it 'bout 7. $3.666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 per week! I kin do dat!
Yeah, I’m only dissin SB from my perspective. I have kids that genuflect before entering the place. They did create a new kind of coffee culture. Coffee Sundae culture. I find is foolish, but it made BANK. It created a new avenue for kids to participate in what was once a primarily adult beverage. My friends all would agree with you that they way over roast.
Thanks for sharing. They look nice.
After years of not being able to enjoy coffee because of the interaction of caffeine with some meds I was on, I have weaned myself from herbal tea and now can enjoy a few cups of coffee in the morning without scaring myself. So, the expense is worth the pleasure. Out on our remote little spit of sand on outer Cape Cod we are lucky to have a local business passionate about good coffee and this is our brew https://beanstockcoffee.com/collections/bold-roasts/products/bali-blue-moon-organic
It has spoiled any other coffee for me, and I revert to tea if I’m away from home.
My coffee sundae consists of coffee ice cream, fudge sauce, and whipped cream. In a dish. I don’t drink it. I’ve eaten it all before it melts. And I’m going to keep it that way.
You and me both. Hot fudge is fine ona cold ice cream. I don’t want the whole sundae to be hot, just the fudge! LOVE coffee ice cream. Never seen coffee frozen custard as an option at Culvers. Might have to make a request.
I have to periodically watch my coffee intake as well. It can go down and rest easy or make my acid reflux freak out. I’ll spend on the good stuff. Our local place is like $3.50 for a pour over, but it is dang good. No add ins, it sings on its own. THAT is who be gittin’ my $.
I’m mid-century Midwest and married a guy from New England. We moved to MA after grad school at Ohio State. It took a long time for me to adjust to some of the things he grew up with and cold coffee anything was a big one. When he was a kid, he drank milk with coffee syrup - not chocolate milk but coffee milk. https://shoprhody.com/products/eclipse-coffee-syrup-16-oz-bottle
He used to come back from visiting his parents before we moved our lives out here with that syrup, Portuguese sweetbread and linguicia sausage.
About 20 years ago I suddenly developed an allergy to coffee (together with rice and beef). I used to break out in severe hives that sometimes left me with a twisted face. Then an allergist told me I should challenge my body from time to time by consuming them. I’m now free of the allergies.
I have seen articles that promote introducing peanuts to children as babies to acclimate them and avoid life-threatening allergies. I hope your face has untwisted. Our bodies are complicated things. My journey through treatments for stage III breast cancer left me with a wall of incomprehensible side effects and food aversions are on top of that wall.
I may have already shared how my crazy cat (RIP) broke my Japan, hand-made tea cup that had adorable kitten paw prints on the side, also painfully wrapped to avoid breakage in my luggage. That one still stings. But I love that panda cup…it’s awesome. I no longer have any cute cups (sniff). My coffee now just goes into a medium, boring, coffee travel mug, courtesy of Nespresso. I have to admit to liking it alot. Not too big and bulky, and holds about 10 oz of coffee but most importantly, it keeps my coffee hot/warm and is easy to clean.
