Many recent studies found coffee is healthy as fuck:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/11/431036/coffee-safe-for-a-fib
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/coffee-may-improve-gut-health/
Some folks think it means Starbucks is good. NOPE.
Starbucks isn’t coffee. It’s actually trash:
Real coffee is this:
Also:
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Tea is also great and healthy. Tea is not addictive.
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If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.
What a load of absolute shite.
Sooo much misinformation… In no particular order:
- Starbucks is a brand, not any specific beverage or even type of drink. You sound like a boomer saying “a Nintendo”.
- You don’t even try to give a reason for your arbitrary 11 AM cutoff time. Zero sources as well.
- YSK is for facts, not biased opinions.
- Almost every coffee shop that sells coffee also sells sweetened and frozen coffee drinks, with similar caloric/sugar content.
- Your own link clarifies that the right amount of coffee is good for you, an important distinction.
- Saying Starbucks is not coffee doesn’t make sense, but it’s also blatantly false. Their coffee-based drinks are obviously made with “real coffee” and it’s easily provable. Just like every other coffee shop.
- Concluding that tea is bad/good is also subjective and there’s no sources.
- Saying a brand is trash is 100% opinion. Plenty of people don’t like them, but putting that in the post shows how your prejudiced opinion shouldn’t be listened to.
- There’s no source for the cherry-picked drink contents.
- Saying a brand is good or bad is (again) complete opinion, so a conclusion can’t be reached.
- Opinions aren’t facts. My opinion is your post is shit.
The difference between medicine and poison is the dosage.
- Your own link clarifies that the right amount of coffee is good for you, an important distinction.
I guess, but that’s reductive. Too much of anything can kill you.
Says “coffee is good but Starbucks is trash” while showing sugar-laden concoctions that can be served at most any chain coffee shop and plenty of indy shops will sell you whipped-cream-topped drinks aside from Starbucks, and not showing that you can indeed buy just a plain cup of coffee from Starbucks.
I’m not saying anyone should support union-busting Starbucks, but this is a crap post to single out Starbucks.
Starbucks sells espresso and Americanos.
No is is forcing you to go to Starbucks and buy a warm Dairy Queen sundae.
If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM.
It’s always before 11 AM somewhere.
This is why an irish coffee exists. It’s both before 11:00 somewhere and after 16:00 somewhere else.
If you drink coffee, avoid it after 11:AM. Seriously.
Got it, don’t drink cappuccino after 11, only espresso.
- Italians
I have a friend like this, not the time frame but his constant mantra of “I don’t drink coffee, but I have an espresso everyday”
“YSK that fruit is healthy. Gushers are not real fruit. It’s trash.”
What happens after 11am?
Have you seen Gremlins? That, but only after sunset.
You should know that there’s vested interest from massive drinks companies to push “caffeine is healthy” while selling caffeinated drinks with unhealthy levels of caffeine.
All of the “a glass of redwine is healthy”-studies tuned out to be paid for by alcohol companies.
We know how bad lobbying is.
So don’t use this as an excuse to drink a half a gallon of energy drinks in the mornings and think it’s positive for your health.
Ofc I’m not denying some moderate doses of drinks not filled with other shit could be healthy, I’m too lazy to go actually read the study right now.
Breaking news: caffeine is DRUGS people!
This is not sarcasm; it is a psychoactive stimulant on par with coke and amphetamines. Your heart and kidneys do not know what drug schedules are.
Enjoy your psychoactive drugs responsibly kids. And remember that enjoying responsibly =/= deluding yourself into thinking they’re healthy.
I agree.
But I must point out US drug scheduling is political, not scientific.
heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), methaqualone, and peyote.
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
The only two actually more dangerous ones there are methaqualone and heroin. But you’d have to be kinda silly to say cannabis is schedule one and cocaine schedule two, that cannabis has “no accepted medical use”. And also strong opiates definitely have accepted medical use.
War on drugs is bs.
pppsssst: that’s why your body can’t tell the difference!
Everything here is false equivalency. Starbucks sells regular coffee, it looks just like your AI pics you include, and the calorie count is going to be quite low. Yes, sugary drinks are sugary. You can also get lattes without any syrup in them, and while you can certainly argue that Starbucks beans aren’t the best in the industry, their lattes are pretty similar to lattes at any coffee shop.
This whole post is like “You shouldn’t go to McDonalds because they have a mcdouble cheeseburger with 1000 calories in it and you could make a salad at home.”
Also, I’d like to acknowledge that this sub is called “You Should Know”, which to me implies it should be about important educational facts, not opinion pieces.
It also says to drink tea, tea is not addictive.
Some tea contains caffeine, caffeine is addictive, so some teas are addictive.
I don’t like Starbucks, but Mackies have a very solid coffee here.
Though nothing trumps even cheap beans and a little aeropress or a v60 at home.Regular Starbucks coffee is vile, it’s only drinkable when you mask the flavour with junk.
Good thing I boycott Starbucks.
Starbucks can eat a giant bag of dicks.
But you can buy “just coffee” there and even though it tastes like it was filtered through my ass crack, it’s no different than other coffee.
Where does one even find such a glorious bag of dicks?
Filtered through your personal ass crack? Sounds divine.
Why, bagofdicks.com of course.
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I don’t get the hate coffee gets. My favorite was being told by a coworker that my one 16oz cup of coffee a day (at work only) was going to kill me. Meanwhile he must have smoked at least half a pack a day.
When I was young I was told it would stunt my growth.
Now that I’m a parent I think people just didn’t know how to say “we don’t want kids to get caffeine because it will make them wild or prevent them from sleeping properly.”
How much is 16oz?
A pint is a pound the world around.
Except in all Commonwealth countries, where it’s 20oz. A pint is a pound in the United States is more accurate, but doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
1/8 of a gallon
they fear beans
Some people need to find bad habits in others to feel better about their own
Switching over to black coffee last year was tough at first, but now it is sooooo much better. I actually kinda dislike it with sweeteners and creamers now.
Try a pinch of salt.
Then try it with a big spoonful of salt.
Nothing wrong with Starbucks coffee. It’s the mixed drinks with some coffee added that are a problem. They are mainly sugar water and other artificial stuff. Tea flavoured drinks are just as bad. Real tea or coffee cannot be mistaken for a pop or milkshake.
Nah, even their coffee tastes like shit.
They over roast it.
McDonalds is better, and it’s $1
You don’t like coffee. Over roasted and too bitter are comments from people who don’t like coffee.
I like coffee, and I avoid over-roasted beans and hate especially bitter coffee.
Over roasted: Burn the fuck out of your low-quality beans so that all flavor nuance is lost and every batch tastes identical.
Too bitter: Over extracted during brewing. It’s a skill issue, and even the darkest roasted beans can be prepared without excessive bitterness.
For me, an over-extracted coffee is never acceptable, but I don’t hate over-roasted beans if I’m at a breakfast diner.
