FabSwingers.com forum: Starbucks or costa?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Isn’t judgment on an individual by their choice in coffe lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A blueberry cheesecake frappuccino from Starbucks please!

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By *likat50Woman
over a year ago

london /bracklesham bay

Starbucks all the way

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

I like a chai - Starbucks use syrup which makes it really horribly sweet.

So Costa for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never been in either. Hope this helps with your research OP.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"A blueberry cheesecake frappuccino from Starbucks please! "

I like how you roll!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cafe Nero

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Starbucks is coming out on top so far my faith is being restored in humanity lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

starbucks coffee is nowhere near as bitter as Costa coffee but both are not as nice as café Nero

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cafe Nero all the way / I won’t do Starbucks because they avoid paying tax and also their coffee is crap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"starbucks coffee is nowhere near as bitter as Costa coffee but both are not as nice as café Nero"

Costa always taste like they have over roasted the bean almost taste burnt .

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Costa.

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Either - whichever is closest to where I am

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By *bonynivoryCouple
over a year ago

market harborough

Cafe Nero

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
Forum Mod
over a year ago

My Own Little World

Neither.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

avoid paying the bedroom tax by turning your spare room into a starbucks

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By *otBunsHunWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

Costa for me....I've actually just applied for a job in my local branch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Greggs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Indifferent, I don’t have loyalty to either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Greggs"

2.25 plus a butty

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By *p4funCouple
over a year ago

Plymouth

Nero for me too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nero

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cafe Nero "

Yep!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cafe Nero "

Love a skinny latte from Nero

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Starbucks for us

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Neither over priced crap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cafe Nero

Love a skinny latte from Nero "

Yes very nice goes very well with their apricot danish too .

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By *callycatMan
over a year ago

Mid Wales

Any independent coffee shop over the chains...especially if they pay their taxes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Costa ! Large cappucino made with coconut milk please if you're buying !

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By *VBethTV/TS
over a year ago

Chester

0.7p worth of tea bag and the same in boiling water please. Add 3p worth of milk and 2 mins of your time at less than £9 per hour 0.2p worth of washing up and the same for rent/rates too. If this costs me more than 80p then it's a rip off so I don't go into any of the big name places. I've had some great mugs of tea for 50p or so from catering vans though. There's one in a DIY store car park in Bridgewater that gives you a china mug of tea for 50p as long as you give it back after. Love that place!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Starbucks ..... x

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

I prefer Costa purely because it's British and pays it's taxes and has a loyalty scheme that actually rewards you rather than operating one that wants to hive off your money to earn interest on for a free coffee every 15 visits (as Starbucks one does) - but will use both

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Any independent coffee shop over the chains...especially if they pay their taxes"

If your ever in

Weymouth 1652 coffee bar . Best independent I have ever been too .

Great coffee in the day , amazing gin and rum bar in the evening .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

happy shopper or camp coffee lol ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Neither.

There is a nice truck stop just up the.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Coffee1

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"Neither over priced crap "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Starbucks all the way

Costa for me

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Try the custom house just outside Bexhill

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Costa all the way

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Meh, free cappucino from Waitrose or MaccyD!

Starbucks has no discernable taste of coffee...

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By *iffaWoman
over a year ago

wherever

Neither where I live there are fab independent coffee shops with much nicer coffee

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

"Meh, free cappucino from Waitrose or MaccyD!

Starbucks has no discernable taste of coffee...

Agreed. And all the food is tasteless pap.

Independents all the way

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

Costa

We boycott Starbucks since the Windsor branch decided that soldiers could not sit in if they were in their greens. Given that there are two large barracks in town they have lost most local trade. Still, the tourists keep them busy.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

I drink tea so whichever one is at the motorway services.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Costa

Really ? How odd. I gleefully walk into Starbs now just to use their toilet and walk out again!

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By *ast_And_CuriousMan
over a year ago

Sevenoaks

I don't go to either.

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

If (as per the thread title) I have to choose between the two, it would be Costa. My preference is Nero, and by coincidence, I changed my allegiance to Costa by virtue of a Fab social

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Isn’t judgment on an individual by their choice in coffe lol "

Nero is better than both

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By *agermeisterMan
over a year ago

Leeds

Why not a local independent cafe who will probably do a better coffee and pay their taxes?

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By *agermeisterMan
over a year ago

Leeds

"Costa

Can you give me a link supporting that assertion?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Costa, love their Lemon muffins

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

Definitely Starbucks, love their Tuna panninnis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At the moment Costa because if the independents open before I start work. However, I'm hoping a new Nero across the road will focus people's minds on making drinks properly.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I prefer indepedant coffee shops but out the two id say costs as starbucks coffee makes my head spin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Costa latte with a slice of raspberry and almond cake

Tend to go to Nero more though as it's closer to work.

I find Starbucks very..meh!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Oh i lied its cafe nero that makes my head spin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Costa, love their Lemon muffins

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love muffin

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Costa for me

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By *aro7Man
over a year ago

wickford

None, a small independent please, no large corporates.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't like coffee however I do like Costa hot chocolate

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Costa

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cafe Nero

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By *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

Over priced pap.

Prefer Vietnamese coffee

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

neither,over priced,over rated crap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

McDonald's.....I just want a strong white coffee.

When I ask for that in Starbucks or Costa they look at me like I'm the devil, because I didn't order a double hazelnut steamed iced frappachino with organic marshmallow dust

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By *odg123Man
over a year ago

southampton

Neither, McDonald's coffee is better, at a push, Costa because its a UK company

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By *ercurialMan
over a year ago

Maidenhead

Costa. Starbucks don't serve coffee

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

"Oh i lied its cafe nero that makes my head spin"

Not keen on cafe nero either.

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

"McDonald's.....I just want a strong white coffee.

When I ask for that in Starbucks or Costa they look at me like I'm the devil, because I didn't order a double hazelnut steamed iced frappachino with organic marshmallow dust"

Haha, so right.McDonalds do great coffee!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The chocolate swirl buns from Starbucks are lush!

I now have bun cravings...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Neither, prefer wee local independant coffee shop that has the best home made cakes also.

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By *osco78Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

Starbucks ,although here in Sheffield there is loads of better independent coffee places about

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

If you are in the north and you have one yet the answer to the question is Tim horton’s

Canada’s finest

Timmy’s “coffee and donuts” combo maybe one of the truely best things on the planet!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you were lumbered with the choice of only those two then Costa are the lesser of two evils.

Starbucks is surely one of the least ethical companies going?

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By *iss.HoneyWoman
over a year ago

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I grind my own bean

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By *arnayguyMan
over a year ago

Durham Tees

"I grind my own bean "

I would love a whiff of that fresh aroma while you are grinding it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Isn’t judgment on an individual by their choice in coffe lol "
naaaaa people don't judge you here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"starbucks coffee is nowhere near as bitter as Costa coffee but both are not as nice as café Nero"

Agreed.

Oh and cafe Nero hot chocolate!

In all seriousness, I'm not adventurous with coffee, I'm just a americano or filter coffee guy.

I have a rank system:

I always prefer independents, usually better service and quality.

Cafe Nero is my go to for convenience.

Costa is the next.

Starbucks is if I'm desperate - the only thing they have over the previous two is they do matcha lattes.

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