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Why is it that the Italian/French coffee culture seems central to everyone's idea of coffee? The Portuguese were moving coffee back to Europe before the Italians and the French were out of bed. Coffee in a Lisboa/Porto pasteleria is deeelish. The effect is still in Mozambique as well.

Whereas, ex-Brit colonies in Africa..Zimbabwe/Ghana....coffee comes in a Nescafe packet...eeeesh!!

The coffee culture in Australia came with the post war migration from Europe...took a while for it to become as mainstream as it is now though.

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hear, hear, a coffeesnob.com.au reader? Are you in the roasting game already (green bean delivery through coffeesnobs)?

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I miss Blue Mountain coffee. if anyone knows where to buy any in perth let me know

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In Singapore it would come in a little sachet complete with milk and sugar. Bleugh.

(Although there is the other stuff at the kopitiam, sieved through an old lady's tights that she hasn't washed for a year - or so it generally tastes - served from a great height and usually with condensed milk and tons of sugar.)

(Not that I really know what coffee sieved through an old lady's tights tastes like...)

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Just loving all the replies and suggestion's, already bought Moccona Indulgence and seems quite good.
Think I will have to invest in a coffee machine and buy the real stuff eventually.
Thanks...:thumbsup:

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Am I a philistine?

I love Starbucks, and used to have one every morning on my way to work. Now I can only get my weekday tall, skinny, wet, decaf latte, or my friday morning grande gingerbread chocochino with extra cream when I am in Darling Harbour.

I can't be doing with all this real coffee nonsense, flat white, long black. Wheres the fun in asking for that? But to be honest I am now a decaf drinker so its not really coffee anyway is it?

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With a capital "F"

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Starbucks opened here in beach side Glenelg, Adelaide and what a farce it was. Two pimply and bumbling adolescents doling out buckets of grit. I asked for a vienna coffee because Im an overweight, pretentious nob and I had to wait for my name to be called out (even though I was the only one there).

Remember that scene from Meet the parents where he wanted to board the plane but had to wait for his row of seats to be called? The mug was overfilled and sloshed on to the counter and bore no resemblance to coffee at all. The whole idea of Starbucks was scrapped and rightly so.

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You made me sad :(

Just wikki'd philistine, and I have to say yes, I am:

'Philistinism is a derogatory term used to describe a particular attitude ..... to favor forms of art that have a cheap and easy appeal (e.g. kitsch).'

I still think starbucks coffee rocks

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Sorry, I only posted to get the old "Filistine" joke in......

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Oh man, what joke is that???

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Sorry but you should of stayed closer to home because the best coffee in the world is infact Newtown!

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I remember years ago my husband and I driving down from Vancouver to Seattle because we heard about this new coffee shop called Starbucks. It was a 3 hour drive each way with me about 8 months pregnant with my daughter. We got there, ordered our coffee, sat down and tasted it and both of us looked at each other and said "we came all the way here for this?"

I did used to occasionally go to Starbucks in Rundle Mall when I lived in Adelaide, though. Mostly it was because that's where the girls used to meet up and I like their hot chocolate.

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Quite. This idea that Starbucks had to close outlets due to Australians not liking inferior coffee is blown out of the water by Gloria Jeans (American company with 470 outlets), Hudsons Coffee (55 outlets) and my current pet peeve, The Coffee Club which serves cr*p coffee and bland, overpriced food. How do these chains continue to thrive if the average Australian coffee drinker is so discerning?
There are plenty of fantastic places to have a coffee, but there are plenty of places to get a cup of muck as well.

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Does it? The last time we went (and we're talking years ago cos I've never been back) we sat there for an hour waiting on our bland overpriced food and it never showed up. We were more patient than a lot of the other customers though who just got up and left. :rofl: