To think too many people have Costa or Starbucks as an accessory

[EvalionAngel]

A rather stylish women I work with seems to have a costa cup superglued. I never see her drink from it although coffee is present inside. I just don't get why some people always seem to have a coffee cup is it a snobbery thing?

Yes, I agree floisme I don't think coffee shops themselves will disappear, but they might not quite have the ubiquity they do now; that is subject to fashion. As you said, they've been around since the 1700s, but in all that time never enjoyed quite the popularity they have at the moment.

Lots of trend 'moments' seem as if they will last forever when you are in the midst of them, but things do fluctuate.

(And yes, I love a Starbucks Gingerbread Latte at Christmas)

Today's fashion statement, I'm drinking in the car so nul cool points for me. I have a rather tasty M&S wrap to accompany. Service station food is rather nice here.

I see this all the time by millennials. They spend all there money on coffee and ipods and then wonder why they can't save for a house deposit.

Er, I don't think it quite works like that user. The savings you'd make from not buying an ipod and not buying a daily takeaway coffee would make for a pretty paltry deposit.

Coffee and a muffin is 5-6 pounds.

Having them daily is 2'190.00 pounds

Ten years of not having them is 22'000.00 pounds. That's the deposit right there.

And it's got nothing at all to do with soaring house prices? What do you think the average deposit needed will be in ten years time?

To be fair user, even if you save your £3 a day and don't upgrade your phone (£600?) every year, the £1500 you save isn't going to go very far in respect of a deposit on a flat. There are lots of feckless millennials, but there are also lots of structural problems with the property market that can't be solved by cutting back on coffee. And I speak as a 30 yo with my own home.

The housing crisis is caused by muffins.

'Coffee is def a fad.'

LOL! Well over 200 years ago, Bach wrote a cantata to coffee. He loved the stuff! The emperor wanted people to drink beer instead and tried to spread rumours that coffee made men sterile. So Bach, a father of 22, fired back.

People have been drinking it for hundreds of years, it's far from a fad.

I KNEW that 1st edition iPod was a slippery slope...

Ten years of not having them is 22'000.00 pounds. That's the deposit right there.

House prices in my borough have gone up 60ish % in the last three years...

No one with any style would think Costa or Starbucks were a stylish status symbol.

Taylor St, Notes, some other small and well regarded coffee shop. Yes. Cost? No.

Anyway, anyone with any sense get their free waitrose coffee on the way into work.

I walk past several coffee shops on my way to work. The independent coffee shops with the bearded weary faced baristas is where the cool kids hang out.

I'm sure even Bach waited until he'd finished composing to have a coffee, or perhaps he played the organ one-handed, a coffee in the other? Maybe he drank one on his way to church, because after all, he really liked coffee?

It's entirely possible he had a tankard of the stuff on his clavichord as he composed, Satsuki. Probably needed all the caffeine he could get with all those kids he had.

Yello - exactly!

I've been known to wander about with a coffee cup all day in the folorn hope I'll get time to finish the coffee any time soon...

They're buying into a lifestyle. Everyone does it.

True, I'd live on the stuff if I had 20. It's a close run thing with 2.

I don't drink coffee myself, but OH loves the stuff. If he's feeling flush he treats himself to a Costa, once a week.
Yes, to some people having constant Costa/Starbucks is aspirational. Just because most of you lot can afford to drop £10 a day on coffee doesn't stop it being considered a luxury by others.

I know what you mean. I feel cool when I have a hot chocolate in a costa cup-I pretend it's a chic cup of coffee. The little things in life!

Its so true OP, I know it's a sweeping generalisation, but at my work there is a certain type who walk around with their Costa cups the whole day long. The once I stopped by Costa in the morning and felt like such a sell out walking into the office with my cup 🙈

I know exactly what you mean op, stop being mean to op! Carrying a coffee cup does seem like an odd thing to do in my opinion. How did people cope before takeaway coffee? Were they utterly parched all day long? Nope. They had a drink when they got to where they were going.

I guess that now everyone is, like, soooooooo, like uber busy they can't stop long enough to sit and drink their drink in one go.

And yes queen bee they are v hot, how does anyone sip from a takeaway lid without doing themselves a very serious mischief?!

I am always holding one when out and about, i make it last for hours. Its like a little warm cuddle just for me and it comforts me. I'd prefer my mum (dead) or a nice partner, but there we are, in their absence a lovely latte will do. Dont be so judgey OP.