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It smells like... urine. After >50 years, I've sort of learned to tolerate the smell of urine; after all I don't spend that much time in front of the porcelain throne. I have more issues with the smell when I sit down on said throne. And I can't get away from that odor as quickly either...
I may have drunk Starbucks at an airport sometime if I was out traveling, really needed my caffeine kick and there wasn't something else nearby, but I really don't remember. Apart from that, I actively avoid Starbucks. I might patronize them if I'm ever in Seattle, but their aggressive business tactics towards small, but great, local coffee shop really peeves me off. And since I strongly prefer local color over international chains, if ever possible I make sure that my cup of nectar-of-the-gods is brewed by a local cafe employee rather than by a drone employed by a large international chain. And since there's no-one more local to me than myself, I make most of my coffee myself. I prefer to use a French press or a decent espresso machine (IOW, not a Nespresso machine), BTW.
