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

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EvalionAngel · 18/09/2016 14:36

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?

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TheLastHeatwave · 19/09/2016 07:43

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NinjaLeprechaun · 19/09/2016 07:58

"I've never had a Starbucks or Costa coffee.
...
I think this makes me a peasant, but I'm okay with that."
I think it makes you a hipster. They all (in the US at least) buy coffee at Dunkin' Donuts or McDonald's, and then laugh at the "corporate sheep" buying at Starbucks.

CodyKing · 19/09/2016 08:10

A lot like me being vegetarian is a fad.

Do you carry vegetables Round all day to let everyone know?

I picture a rather fetching hat

KatieScarlett · 19/09/2016 08:17

I'm a fecking hipster?
Shock
I buy Greggs because it's really really cheap. And the staff are a great laugh. And I really really like milky coffee drinks at lunchtime. Nothing to do with The Man. Although I may appropriate it and increase my swagger forthwith GrinBrewGrin

Mittensonastring · 19/09/2016 08:26

I get where your coming from but am of an era where eating and drinking in the street was rather frowned on. I actually don't like walking about with drinks so try and factor in a sit down for a drink out of an actual cup because the taste of a drink is so affected by mouth feel.

I don't see how people are any busier these days than in the past.

KatieScarlett · 19/09/2016 08:32

What era?
I am almost 50 and no one I know would blink at drinking a beverage in the street. A lot of cafes and restaurants would also be out of business if that were the case.
However that being said, I don't actually do that as walking and drinking a full cup of hot milky stuff had the tendency to spill. So I carry it gingerly back to my workplace and drink it in the staff room.

StealthPolarBear · 19/09/2016 09:10

I love this thread

spicyfajitas · 19/09/2016 09:12

I have a battered contigo mug. I take it everywhere I go. It's like my best friend.
Not keen on Starbucks but quite like macdondass coffee, though I'll go where the queue is smallest

Creativemode · 19/09/2016 09:35

Oh gosh I haven't rtft but I actually agree with the op!

A few years ago everyone was walking round sipping bottled water, now it's coffee.

Coffee is most definitely fashionable, there weren't all these coffee shops and fancy drinks around years ago.

Nothing wrong with that and I love coffee but I do know what the op means.

rosesandcashmere · 19/09/2016 09:42

I expense them Ilost.... I think they see it as a justifiable expense for not killing my colleagues Grin

SatsukiKusakabe · 19/09/2016 09:46

"A bit like me being vegetarian is a fad"

No, it isn't like that. A fad is "an intense and widely spread enthusiasm for something" especially short lived but not necessarily.

The point I'm making is it is widely spread - everyone in recent years has a need for coffee all the time, when previously they didn't. Waiting in their cars, on their way to work, the instant gratification of it right where they are. Everyone has their individual justification for it, of course, and why not, if you can afford it? It's enjoyable I agree. But it is also funny.

SatsukiKusakabe · 19/09/2016 09:49

Also it's hilarious that teenagers are now queuing for coffee before and after school - I would say that is more evidence of its faddishness. It would never have occurred to any of us at my school to go and buy coffee Confused Fizzy drinks in cans all the way.

JC23 · 19/09/2016 09:49

I'm totally with you OP.
Although I don't live in the UK, it's a bit different here. Where I am Starbucks and Costa are sneered at and it's all about the latest independent coffee place and the blends.
But yes we all strut around the city holding our coffees like fashion accessories Grin

leccybill · 19/09/2016 09:53

Coffee is def a fad.

I do wonder what will happen to all the outlets when it drops out of fashion. What will the 5 Costas, Starbucks and 2 Cafe Nerros in my small town convert to?!

PixieMiss · 19/09/2016 09:58

I have a Costa cup, I live in Yorkshire, it is often freezing like today and I need a warm drink.

When I was heavily pregnant, I used to put raspberry leaf tea in Grin didnt work mind

Creativemode · 19/09/2016 10:04

Coffee shops might not die out because they are a social thing.

People go for a coffee instead of going to the pub.

But needing to constantly have a coffee on the go isn't the same as being vegetarian!

JacquesHammer · 19/09/2016 10:17

But why on earth is it necessary to walk around with a take away cup of the stuff

Because to get on my train I need to walk with it. I have yet to master apparating and running gets messy.

I don't see how people are any busier these days than in the past.

For me its not about being busy. Its about wanting a drink on a train and not liking train hot drinks.

I think you're probably overthinking it

Floisme · 19/09/2016 10:18

We've had coffee shops in the uk since about the 17th century so they're hardly a fad. And I doubt whether coffee will fall out of favour as caffeine is one of the most addictive drugs going.

SatsukiKusakabe · 19/09/2016 10:18

I read 'A Town Like. Alice' recently, set in the 50s, and the thing then was to set up a milk bar. Milk shakes, ice creams, sodas. After work, sitting up at the bar. Or in the English parts of the book they went somewhere for afternoon tea. There will be some form of social drinking establishment always, but what the main one is, the thing on every corner and installed in every co-op and supermarket, will change at some point I dare say.

SatsukiKusakabe · 19/09/2016 10:21

Coffee shops aren't a fad; walking around with one and needing to have one on the go to quite the extent that people do at the moment, is.

Coffe shops have been around, but they were not always the mainstream popular places they are at this point in time.

yorkshapudding · 19/09/2016 10:30

But why on earth is it necessary to walk around with a take away cup of the stuff

There are many, many things in life that aren't strictly "necessary" but people still enjoy them. Is that really so terrible? Confused

I suppose I could get up earlier (I currently get up at 6.15 on my working days) and have a cup of coffee at home before I leave for work but I'd rather not get up earlier as I'm tired all the time as it is. The coffee at work is shit and I never get the chance to drink it while it's still hot due to the nature of my job. So, once in a while, I'll treat myself to a decent coffee on my way there. It's not "necessary", no but it's convenient and I like it. It never occurred to me that in doing so I could possibly be offending anyone Hmm

Some people really do love to suck the enjoyment out of everything.

MitzyLeFrouf · 19/09/2016 10:30

I think walking around with a takeaway coffee was a fashion statement thing in the late 90s/early 00s but now it's become so much a part of modern life that it's more or less lost any trend appeal it had at the start.

Floisme · 19/09/2016 10:31

Maybe not, but now they've got a grip on the high street, I can't see them going away any time soon. Coffee is far too addictive to be subject to something whimsical like fashion.

Floisme · 19/09/2016 10:33

Mega cross post - that was in reply to Satsu, I think.

EssentialHummus · 19/09/2016 10:54

I work from home. I like an occasional - like, twice a year - Starbucks as a treat, and usually go for a 1000 calorie mocha frappuccino type that (for me, anyway) is basically a meal replacement.

The rest of the time, I actually like instant Nescafe. Not even the posho Azera variety Grin.

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