Comments on: Texas is a different country

By: Neto

Neto — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:59:54 +0000

Starbucks sucks, you yuppy scum!!!

By: Neto

Neto — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:58:32 +0000

Forget about Starbucks. If you want that yuppy stuff go north to Austin or Dallas. What makes SA cool is that we are not trying to be like the trendy towns to our north. We are what we are and dont care about the hollywood B.S. Besides why do you want to support a corporation like starbucks? There are several other homegrown coffee shops near downtown. And jogging for 45 min downtown, you must have made lots of laps, downtown is very small.

By: Fouad

Fouad — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:10:51 +0000

admiral Buzz (see Katzenjammer)

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:42:41 +0000

Wow! Somehow that magical smiley just ‘appeared’ in my last post at the perfect location/moment. I’ve been lookin’ and lookin’ and Lookin’ for that big smile smiley on the net to insert here (without asking those of you who obviously are way ahead of me). Still don’t know where to find it. Help?

But meanwhile, magic occurs at Camp Buzz! Must be the hurricane/beignet/’community’ coffee combo, Cagun!

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:26:25 +0000

Ruth Calvo,

Just curious why you continue to link to your non-working web site so many months on (as in Sixty Years On).

Cagun,

Hurricanes and beignets for breakfast…along with chicory ‘community’ coffee? I’d try it, you bet . Hopefully late morning..

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:17:42 +0000

And the voodooo doll de rigeur.

By: cagun

cagun — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:51:54 +0000

Or some fried dough covered in powdered sugar, w/ some radioactive (Community) coffee?
Or a HandGrenade â€“ Mountain Dew mixed w/ 190 proof EverClear – served 24/7?

By: cagun

cagun — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:37:50 +0000

RiverWalk. . . please! It’s a friggin’ ditch.

Come to N.O. & have a Hurricane for breakfast.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:09:07 +0000

DRB:

Frisco is NOT North Dallas. It has a fine downtown (can you say historic) area which I suggest you visit.

DRB and others:
San Antonio’s riverwalk by the way is FDR – CCC product. imagine the city without it?

Jeff, I hope you didn’t miss the wonderful caving possibilities while you were there??

By: David R. Block

David R. Block — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:03:35 +0000

Frisco, TX (North Dallas) also has a mall with a kiosk Starbucks on the ground floor, and a storefront Starbucks on the next floor. Right up the stairway from the other one. Then there’s the Barnes and Noble Cafe serving Starbucks.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:03:50 +0000

Ric: Well, yes, obviously, I’m quite familiar with running as I did it in high school, but I was wondering specifically what “running” is…I mean, I know what running is, but “running” seems a whole other matter. A scare-quotey matter.

This time of year around San Antonio makes sane people want to move back to Oregon. Despite prescription allergy pills and no self-serve gas.

By: Ric Locke

Ric Locke — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:12:54 +0000

Timothy,

Well, “running” is a technical word meaning exercise taken on foot.

This time of year around San Antonio, when a coyote chases a rabbit, neither one of them gets above a walking pace, and they both stop for all the water points.

Regards,
Ric

By: Jimmy K.

Jimmy K. — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:49:37 +0000

Welcome to San Antonio! Wonderful place. Hotter’n hell! Friendly folks! No riots when you win or lose NBA championships.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:35:02 +0000

Candice: “(often) better coffee”

How hard is that?

Robert: “you can still get a cup of coffee at a Diner”

You’ve got the right idea.

By: Robert Swaim

Robert Swaim — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:14:20 +0000

It.s the REAL world. where you can still get a cup of coffee at a Diner , served by a Real person for less than two dollars. A’int it great.

By: redredkroovy

redredkroovy — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:13:39 +0000

Even Harlingen (way down in the Rio Grande Valley) has a Starbucks now. Even with the Starbucks, Texas is still a different country.

By: Carson Fire

Carson Fire — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:28:20 +0000

Bah, SoupNazzi beat me to it. Come to Dallas, you’ll be tripping over the darn things.

By: Candice

Candice — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:58:47 +0000

Starbucks isn’t completely penetrated everywhere – Here in New Orleans it faces fierce competition from the already-established (and growing) local coffee chains, with their free wireless and (often) better coffee. They’re outnumbered so far.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:29:38 +0000

Mi Tierra is pretty good, not far from where you are, Jeff. I’d also check out Boudrou’s on the the River Walk, it’s expensive and touristy, but pretty good. Also, I agree with the other posters:

1) What on earth were you doing running around downtown San Antonio in August?

2) What is “running”?

3) Austin is cooler than here is.

By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:19:27 +0000

Be sure and visit Mi Tierra for a little Mexican food while you’re there. San Antonio is also the birthplace of Texas Chili so you may want to sample those wares as well.

By: Phelps

Phelps — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:50:27 +0000

It’s San Antonio. Houston is so filthy with Starbucks that — I kid you not — they have a Starbucks… across the street… from a Starbucks. Lewis Black put it on the cover of one of his albums.

http://aolshop.com/media/coverart/pop/cov200/drf900/f907/f90764bwo3n.jpg

The mall in downtown Houston has a Starbucks in the food court on the first floor. Normal, right? They have another Starbucks… in the same mall… on the second floor. Two Starbucks, 120 yards from each other, sharing the same air conditioning.

By: will

will — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:54:25 +0000

Jeff, please please come to Austin – lots more Starbucks and generally cooler city overall.

By: twohorses

twohorses — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:40:40 +0000

Wait.

You went running in San Antonio. In August? Downtown?

I’d be surprised if you saw any people, let alone Starbucks!

By: Yehudit

Yehudit — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:31:49 +0000

They’re all over Austin.

By: Jersey Exile

Jersey Exile — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:41:40 +0000

Canâ€™t quite get into beans for breakfast.

I spent a summer in Texas and Puebla, Mexico where I subsisted on nothing but beans for breakfast. My roommate at the time was not amused.

Totopos con frijoles… good times…

I also remember my first morning in Texas on a high school summer trip where we stayed in a hotel outside of Dallas and awoke to find burritos and other such Tex-Mex delights in the morning spread. This was long before McDonald’s had gotten onto the breakfast burrito bandwagon, mind you. My Jersey classmates were scrambling for the miniature boxes of cereal while I had the southwestern goodies all to myself.