Coffee at McDonald’s looks and tastes disgusting
This what is classed as news in Nottingham, takeaway coffee from McDonald’s looks and tastes disgusting.
For some perverse reason Nottingham Post decided to send one of their hacks out to taste the coffee at McDonald’s.
Column inch filling drivel which illustrates why our local papers are failing.
What did they expect to find, quality coffee?
Apart from being column inch filling drivel, this is little more than promotion for McDonald’s but without the obligatory warning at the top.
When a coffee shop adds syrups, it is to mask the taste of their awful coffee.
When we see a row of syrups, it is like flying a warning flag, we serve crap coffee.
Yuk: a large shot of delicious Arabica bean espresso, blended with a caramel biscuit flavour syrup and steamed organic milk from UK dairies. Topped with a swirl of chocolate cream and a caramel drizzle.
McDonald’s peddles junk food, we have an obesity crisis, which is why junk food adverts have been banned by London Mayor Sadiq Khan from the London Transport network. Nottingham should follow suit.
I would no more wish to eat at McDonald’s, let alone drink coffee. Nor would I wish to drink coffee in any of the corporate coffee chains. Nor would I wish to drink coffee out of a takeaway coffee cup.
What makes this article all the worse, is that it is possible to obtain great coffee in Nottingham from independent specialty coffee shops, local businesses that care about coffee, make a visit to Nottingham worthwhile, that give character and a sense of place, that recycle money within the local economy.
200 Degrees near Nottingham Station, roast their own coffee. Excellent for lunch. Coffee not great, but better than the corporate chains.
200 Degrees at Flying Horse Walk, dark and gloomy, lacking in ambience.
Cartwheel Coffee, roast their own coffee. Excellent cakes and coffee.
The Speciality Coffee Shop, excellent coffee, constantly rotating guest coffee.
Wired, excellent coffee and cakes, a wide ever changing selection of guest coffee.
Also visit Cobden Chambers opposite Wired, several independent businesses in a courtyard. A must visit Ideas on Paper.
Outpost Coffee, roast their own coffee. Excellent coffee and cakes.
