Coffee In Seattle…

When I first tried Starbucks coffee, I hated it.  I’ve been a Dunkin’ Donuts fan for as long as I can remember. I’m one of those people that like a mild tasting, light coffee.

Since it seems that Starbucks is on practically every corner in New York and Dunkin’ Donuts isn’t, I had to figure out how to drink Starbucks to my liking. So, I started to order the mildest coffee they had, added skim milk and two Splenda (sugar just isn’t sweet enough for Starbucks) and you know what? I started to get used to it.  Now, I can drink it. I don’t love it, but when I feel I need a cup of coffee, I run into Starbucks and get one.

Fast forward a few years and now, I’m sitting in a hotel room in Seattle, the coffee capital of the world, reflecting on that first day when I tried Starbucks coffee.  You can’t get away from coffee here, it’s everywhere.  If it’s not Starbucks, it’s Seattle’s Best or Tulley’s.  There are others too but the most prominent ones are Starbucks and Seattle’s Best, which by the way is a subsidiary of Starbucks.

You can even smell the coffee here. It’s rich, strong, and bitter smell.

I was anxious to try Seattle’s Best since I already knew that Starbucks coffee is very strong and bitter.  I found that Seattle’s Best is just as strong and bitter.  As a matter of fact, I couldn’t find one cup of coffee in Seattle that wasn’t strong and bitter.

As I wandered aimlessly through the streets of downtown, all I kept thinking was I love Seattle but where’s the Dunkin’s Donuts?