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Costa Coffee.

Post by Longside » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:13 am

Free Today only. https://twitter.com/CostaCoffee/status/ ... 32576?s=09" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Lord Beamish » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:17 am

I don’t like coffee.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Longside » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:18 am

Just got mine, It Costa me nothing :lol:

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by FactualFrank » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:45 am

So not available in stores, just the machines.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Longside » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:51 am

FactualFrank wrote:So not available in stores, just the machines.
Yeah just the machines unfortunately.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Longside » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:53 am

Location map
https://www.costa.co.uk/locations/store ... =-3.218894" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ☕

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by beddie » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:18 am

I don't mind coffee but I can't drink it out of those plastic/cardboard cups. I really can't stand those long wooden stirrers either.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by chekhov » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:26 am

Lord Beamish wrote:I don’t like coffee.
I like coffee.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Bosscat » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:27 am

beddie wrote:I don't mind coffee but I can't drink it out of those plastic/cardboard cups. I really can't stand those long wooden stirrers either.
Those long wooden stirrers are ace.

I used to use them to plug enlarged screwholes when replacing locks in wooden doors :D and other useful uses :lol:
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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by chekhov » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:30 am

beddie wrote:I don't mind coffee but I can't drink it out of those plastic/cardboard cups. I really can't stand those long wooden stirrers either.
Beddie, if you sit in your “drink” is served in conventional crockery. I agree that the plastic and cardboard cups are very disagreeable btw (purely from a waste perspective).
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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:33 am

I remember finding it very cheeky of them to wait until another coffee chain had opened up in Burnley, proving that there is a market, then they opened up slap bang opposite.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by bfccrazy » Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:57 am

The first one is always free .......

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by theroyaldyche » Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:56 pm

Its not jus coffee. Hot choc is free

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by NRC » Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:07 pm

Of the two things I miss the least about the UK, one of them is the coffee, be it Costa or any other brand. It’s bloody awful. Actually it’s not the coffee, it’s that they don’t offer half and half

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Swizzlestick » Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:09 pm

ZizkovClaret wrote:I remember finding it very cheeky of them to wait until another coffee chain had opened up in Burnley, proving that there is a market, then they opened up slap bang opposite.
Read a decent book once about how Starbucks started out and became so successful and it said that when a Starbucks (or any other national chain coffee shop) opened in an area, it actually increased business for the other coffee shops around it as people became more accustomed to a coffee ‘culture’ and would go from place to place, which would encourage word of mouth and so on. There’s about four in one small area in Burnley centre and they all do well.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by BFCmaj » Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:09 pm

Lord Beamish wrote:I don’t like coffee.
Tell me why..
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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Lord Beamish » Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:17 pm

BFCmaj wrote:Tell me why..
Because it’s Satan’s p!ss.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Devils_Advocate » Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:19 pm

Lord Beamish wrote:Because it’s Satan’s p!ss.
More like "rats" p*ss...boom boom!!
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Post by ŽižkovClaret » Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:34 pm

Lord Beamish wrote:Because it’s Satan’s p!ss.
The fact that one of the more prized coffee beans is picked out of lemur crap says a lot about coffee snobs

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Alanstevensonsgloves » Tue Oct 01, 2019 2:21 pm

Lord Beamish wrote:Because it’s Satan’s p!ss.
BFCMaj laid a rat trap..... And you've been caught!
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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by BFCmaj » Tue Oct 01, 2019 2:27 pm

I think the silicon chip in Lord Beamish’s head has been set to overload.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Lord Beamish » Tue Oct 01, 2019 2:35 pm

BFCmaj wrote:I think the silicon chip in Lord Beamish’s head has been set to overload.
There’s always someone lookin’ at ya.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by The Enclosure » Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:51 pm

Scores of students from Nelson College filling their boots at the newish Texaco garage near to the college when i called for petrol at lunchtime.lol.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by todclaret » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:38 pm

Bonnie Tyler was in there earlier, but she was holding out for a Nero.....
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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by pushpinpussy » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:51 pm

Longside wrote:Free Today only. https://twitter.com/CostaCoffee/status/ ... 32576?s=09" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Thanks a Latte

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Bosscat » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:58 pm

Baldricks Cappuccino leaves a bit to be desired....

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by kentonclaret » Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:03 pm

Whenever I visit a Costa I ask for a Brexit.

I just love all of the froth.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by International class » Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:34 pm

Costa a once great British success but now sadly owned by Coca-Cola.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Funkydrummer » Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:10 pm

The journalist who exposed Costa Coffee working conditions, Hanna Yusuf, has tragically died aged 27.

She revealed employees' complaints alleging managers' refusal to pay for sickness or annual leave, working outside of contracted hours and the retention of tips.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49879307" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

RIP

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by tim_noone » Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:17 pm

Funkydrummer wrote:The journalist who exposed Costa Coffee working conditions, Hanna Yusuf, has tragically died aged 27.

She revealed employees' complaints alleging managers' refusal to pay for sickness or annual leave, working outside of contracted hours and the retention of tips.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49879307" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

RIP
That is very sad news.RIP

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Joe14 » Wed Oct 02, 2019 7:33 am

I didn’t sleep a wink last night!! I swear on only had 7 coffees yesterday :|

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by basil6345789 » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:23 pm

Use local cafes, not these monstrous ones - it's a generational thing

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Thu Oct 03, 2019 9:13 am

Costa is dreadful. Only drink it when no alternative or out of convenience.

And they’re almost always scruffy, dirty and untidy. And while I don’t mind Nero less said about the state of their bathroom in Manchester next door to primarni.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by mkmel » Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:32 pm

A Costa coffee here in a hotel in Milton Keynes where I am right now have just today put up their large Americanos to £3.10

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by dougcollins » Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:06 pm

Haven't Costa been acquired by a fizzy drink company, Pepsi, Coke or someone?

Sorry, just seen #28, thanks.

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Re: Costa Coffee.

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:20 pm

Coffee drinkers...... your breath stinks.

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