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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Legitimate? Well yes if you mean legitimate opinions. I like their coffee. I don't like Starbucks coffee as to me it's overpriced and doesn't taste good IMO but I acknowledge that lots of people like their coffee very strong and bitter. I would say my dislike for Starbucks coffee is legitimate. I don't like it but at the same time I'm not mystified at all that other people don't share my opinion. Some of you seem to feel that your opinion in some way should carry weight with the masses which is where you go wrong.
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But if you blind taste test Tim Horton's coffee it does terribly. Now this gets annecdotal but at our office everyone wanted to bring in Tims instead of whatever ground coffee was being provided so a blind taste test was done. Tim Hortons came in 3rd with like 8% of the vote behind the other two. This was about 500 people being tested (annecdotal still) but a decent number.
I contend that people don't actually like Tim's coffee as much as they say they do but instead like the ritual and branding and the sense of patriotism. Liking Tim's coffee is a placebo effect.
Its the opposite peoples reaction to liking McD's coffee. Many are embarassed to admit that it is a decent cup of coffee.