By now I have been in US for two months, and I found it that people here always drink coffee. In campus, I always see people grabing a cup of coffee. In classrooms, I always see students have a cup of coffee on the desk. In Soho, I found people grabing a cup of coffee, standing near the windows and talking. In the begining of film "You've Got Mail", Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan also buy a cup of coffee from Starbucks. What Tom Hanks said in that scene is very interesting. He said "The purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making abilityto make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, lite, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, nonfat, et cetera.....So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95 get not just a cup of coffee, but an absolutely defining sense of self." Now I'm thinking about what these people pursue. Do these people really enjoy the coffee itself? Do they enjoy the talk with a cup of coffee in hand? Or...they just enjoy it as a life style. I went to Soho this afternoon and I even tried it myself. Well, it was pretty good. The hot coffee was good, the chatting was good, and its really enjoyable. However, I don't think I will do it everyday....
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Well, Henry, I feel that Starbucks is definitely a cultural thing. Coffee itself is not as important as the "experience" of going to a Starbucks.
I LOVE coffee. Starbuck's doesn't do it for me though--way too over-roasted. This is a real problem because I drink my coffee black, no sugar.
Is Marcus a friend?
I have a cup of coffee only when I am tired and I have something important to do. However, many of my friends like coffee very much. So when I was a undergraduate student, I and my classmates often went to Starbucks for chatting. They ordered a cup of coffee whereas I just ordered coco,milk or salad.
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