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• monkey on Seattle: The First Starbucks Store: I am enjoying your documentation of the family’s Seattle adventures. Thanks for this, as I know your experiences will come in handy when I organize a trip there. I prefer Timmy’s coffee over Starbucks. Starbuck’s coffee tastes burnt to me and needs to be more mellow in flavour.

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• SexyMalayGirl on Longan Jelly: I love this recipe!!! We get agar-agar and longans at Marina Foods-my family loves it. Whenever I throw a party-these make nice deserts. [= Except if I;m making it for a large group I pour them in ice cube trays w/ one longan in each cube.

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• seaghost on Seattle: The First Starbucks Store: Ever since you started the Seattle blogs, I have been hoping you would do something on Starbucks as I am a barista there. :D RobynT is correct. It’s named after the character in Moby Dick, Starbuck.

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• Eat-Snap-Repeat on Seattle: Piroshky, Piroshky in Pike Place Market: I love this place. Went there during my last trip to Seattle and had a savory pastry containing salmon and cream sauce (forget the name). It was delicious. A bit on the expensive side though (maybe I’m too accustomed to Chinese bakeries).

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• RobynT on Seattle: The First Starbucks Store: Starbuck is a character in Moby Dick. I heard that’s where the name came from and that’s why their logo is a mermaid. I also heard that the guy who came up with this either left or was squeezed out of the company before it got big. I think I read it in the latest Mental Floss (trivia magazine). I prefer Seattle’s Best to Starbucks, but I admit I often go to Starbucks since they are everywhere! I’ve been meaning to try Tim Horton’s but haven’t got around to it yet.

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• Jessica on Seattle: The First Starbucks Store: The sizes at Starbucks are Short (child size), Tall, Grande and Venti. I have boycotted Tim Horton’s over the timbit issue www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008 /05/08/timbit-lilliman.html?re f=rss the fact that the woman had children shouldn’t matter though. I find plain Starbucks coffee tastes burnt so I have to get a vanilla latte to cut the burnt taste.

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• Style Dish on Seattle: The First Starbucks Store: I use to be a frappucino addict and then when I read a grande frapp with whipped cream has the same amount of calories as a big mac…I stopped. I also started to go to the local coffee shops and found good ones like JJ Beans and love Cafe Artigiano. Also Starbucks isn’t doing so well. Maybe it’s the effect of the US economy downturn but in its history, the last 2-3 quarters they’ve started to see a drop in their sales.

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• carla on Seattle: The First Starbucks Store: The name “Starbucks” was developed by an ad agency which the company hired. They asked for a “catchy” name that would be easy to remember.

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• Chris on Seattle: The First Starbucks Store: I vote for Timmy’s anytime though had a bit of concern when they fired that poor single mom for giving away a 16c timbit! Glad to see she got rehired but hope the overzealous manager got reprimanded as well for, er, having his knickers in a knot!

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• MoMo on Seattle: The First Starbucks Store: I like Starbucks the most because it is the strongest coffee I can find so far. I am guess that’s one of the reasons why Starbucks is the king of the hill in the world of coffee. I drink coffee not for waking myself up besides taste, just like most adults. I did the test. I find that Starbucks can last me 4 to 5 hours of high energy. I don’t feel sleepy until night. Other brands? 2 to 3 hours if I am lucky. Usually 1 hour of being awake. I tried to switch before. I failed miserably. I would have a cup of non Starbucks in the morning and then ran to Starbucks for a cup of coffee hours later because I simply couldn’t stay awake. Especially there’s no sunlight during winter in Vancouver,I really need strong coffee to make me sober all day. If anyone knows any brand even stronger than Starbucks, please let me know. It doesn’t have to have retail stores. It can be just a brand of coffee beans or ground coffee on...

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