They’re ubiquitous here in the PNW, in many towns outnumbering Starbucks.

Not sure what they add to the coffee but it always manages to leave a burnt feeling on my tongue and lips no matter the temperature.

Thanks for the warning.

Cars were lined up for blocks, blocking streets, drives and intersections.

For about two months.

Then the fervor ran down.

Now you drive by the place and the employees are sitting outside waiting for customers.

Anyone can make those. Add freshly-squeezed lemon or lime juice to a Coke; puree some peeled peach and add it to a glass of club soda . . . with a little imagination those folks could've saved their money. And time!

But the donuts WERE good. ---- filled blueberry ----. I remember when one opened up in Manhattan. S.I.L. bought 1/2 dozen to take home to New Jersey.
---traffic getting into the tunnel so she opens up the box. Conclusion, not one donut made it back to Parsippany.



Now, they are not even worth the 2 mile drive from my house.

They opened one and people seemed to go crazy. I don't understand. Of course, I don't understand Starbucks either. You could buy yourself an awful good coffee or espresso machine with what you'd save in a year.

Today I was desperate for a cup of coffee but didn't want to bother with my tiny four-cup "Mr Coffee" (sorry, Joe). I poured a mug full of my sister's bottle of cold-brewed coffee and nuked it. It wasn't terrible.

They are targeting high-school students and Dutch Bros coffee stands are now teen hangouts. There have been lawsuits w/ the city and massive fines on some locations because they are so disruptive to traffic. I used to like their coffee when they first moved into Phoenix about10 years ago, but their coffee seems to me to have gotten a lot sweeter to my palate and is almost undrinkable now.

It's seemed to me that the long lines of people on foot were made of high school kids, just from the way they stand and interact.* And this overgrown kiosk is about a mile from one of the largest high schools in Orange County.

* There's time to watch them as I'm sitting at the nearby red light.

but in this world, anything is possible.

No, wait: I demand that Joe Biden be reelected. So Joe, save us from what's-his-name. Don't let him be possible.

Besides that, anything is possible.

Although you can apparently buy a cup of hot coffee at Dutch Bros, it doesn't make much sense to go there for that and wait in line with a bunch of teenagers. But if you want an iced chocolate raspberry crappuchino with extra pumps of colored sweetener in a giant plastic cup with a giant plastic dome lid and a giant plastic straw, that's where you want to go.

That's all I can say. Ew. Thanks for the warning, of which I've received a few here today.