More folks swearing off Starbucks
I already gave you my reasons for quitting Starbucks.
The ugly lady logo wasn’t one of them, but it’s apparently got one group worked up into a frothy lather:
Seems that one person’s smut is another person’s morning latte.
A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee.
The Resistance says the new image “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news release. “Need I say more? It’s extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks.”
The group, which claims more than 3,000 members nationwide and has found a place on the fringe advancing various conspiracy theories, is calling for a national boycott of the coffee-selling giant.
“Slutbucks?!”
Crikey. It’s a mermaid.
Whatevs. I’m off to Dunkin’ for a quick mid-afternoon fix…
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I don’t know if that ugly thing should offend me or not, but it sure makes me question the judgement of their marketing dept.
Well, Great! Now I’m at odds… My wife manages a Starbucks??? I don’t know what the pastor of our church is gonna have to say about this???
I Don’t drink Starbucks. The coffee at the local Tiger Mart is better and a fraction of the price. As far as the logo goes…some folks take things a bit too far.
Struggling to care…. failed. Side note, this cup probably would not be allowed for our troops in Iraq because of the pornography rules. Talk about stupid.
Someone should tell the moron that mermaids don’t have legs.
Swimming upscale. If only the Waffle House would come east!
More than 3,000 members nationwide!?!?!? Wow, that’s like 60 members per state. Very impressive. I can see why they are such a far-reaching and influential group.
I do hope the poor dears never find themselves in an art museum or such. They might be permanently scarred.
I’ve seen this mermaid on the loose in NYC, kinda skanky…
Maybe that logo should replace the “donkey/mule/ass” logo of the Democrat National Party. Quite fitting, no?
Michelle and those commenting. I never understood why any of you ever went to Starbucks to get overpriced coffee. Or why you drink it in the first place. Tastes like burnt mud. Although my wife would agree with you on needing the coffee to wake up in the morning.
This is a joke. Right? It has to be. No way there is actually a group that’s offended by… On second, nevermind.
Sheesh, get a life. If you want to be offended, be offended by the overpriced bilgewater that they try to pass off as coffee.
“Struggling to care…failed”.
Fabulous! My sentiments exactly.
I’ll go to Starbucks if I want coffee and it’s where I am at the time. I won’t walk around looking for it.
Fresh coffee out of the roach coach at work at 6:30 a.m. works for me.
“On second thought” even… Lord I am ready for the weekend…
anybody have the Mermaids phone number?
A. I won’t pay more than a buck for coffee.
B. Can’t wait for the mermaid parade at Coney Island.
C. what do mermaids have to do with coffee anyway?
If ugly were a crime, then yeah there’d be a problem.
But you really can’t *see* anything in the logo. I don’t drink at Starbucks, so this won’t bother me.
This kind of reminds me of the groups that freak out about Harry Potter, without ever having read the books! It shows, clearly, they do not understand mermaid lore.
Michelle:
Point me to the nearest substitute for a Caramel Machiatto!!!!!
( Shakes nervously awaiting an answer )
just got my SBUX giftcard in the mail w/ “laissez faire” written on it…as for the mermaid…well, I’ll leave that to the rest of ye all to comment upon…
why doesn’t anybody make their own coffee anymore….just askin?
I have to agree with your sentiment. The siren is an ugly logo, no doubt, but it’s not pornographic.
There are many reasons to avoid Charbucks whenever possible. This isn’t one of them. One of the few benefits of living in Seattle is the plethora of coffee stands and cafes. I can think of 20 on my route to work alone.
I’m offended by the ugliness of the logo. The mermaid has a serious medical problem.
A *$ caramel macchiato is neither caramel nor macchiato. Just sayin.
I drink it by the pot when I’m at home. It’s hard to get good coffee at work, though, and some of the best coffee I’ve ever had in my life is just two blocks from the office. Small price to pay.
Starbucks coffee is lousy. That’s enough reason for me to stay away unless I have no alternatives.
I’m a Christian minister and to me this logo change is roughly the same as their liberal slogans cups. I don’t particularly care what they put on their cups because I’m not likely to drink anything out of them anyway.
I understand what these people Christians are trying to do, but I think their efforts would be more effective if they focused them on other issues. But someone has to speak up or this will become the norm.
Starbucks was named for a character in “Moby Dick”…the mermaid (or siren) is from the front of the Pequod upon which they all rode (the ship)…
What will? Mermaids on coffee cups?
About 12 years ago, I was adding up what I spent in a month at places like Starbucks on my way to work. Suddenly, buying one of those little mugs for the mug holder and taking my coffee from home didn’t seem so bad. I can’t remember the amount but I was shocked at the time.
I am still a fan of their Whole Bean Breakfast Blend though and get it at the Safeway.
Mermaids.
Probably has more to do with the “when it doesn’t rain, the people rust” spirit of Seattle.
No prob by me. Even the new “old” logo is dumb but
I’M SWEARING THEM OFF simply because their “new” Pike’s Place tastes like Folgers/Maxwell House…for THAT, I don’t need a SWANK-BAR or their prices.
Of all the things to be angered about in regards to Starbucks (like their banning of capitalist phrases), they pick the logo?
It’s a mermaid, dude.
The mermaid does not look offensive to me, rather she looks to be in pain.
Ouch.
And that reminds me of a tasteless joke about a man with a very small head telling how he got that way to someone else and it involved rescuing a magical mermaid..
If thats the case, i’m brewing my own folgers and gevalia at home and using my own cup.
Regardless, this isnt really really pr0n or anything else. just a really ugly logo.
No Viva La Resistance today.
LOL
…seems that SBUX threw that idea out the window as I have a gift card w/ “laissez faire”…
Are there really stimulation-deprived males out there whose morals are being corrupted by a the cartoon mermaid on a Starbucks cup? Puh-leeeze.
Christians already get a bad rap in the media. Its not a great strategy to provide fodder for the worst of the stereotypes that the Left and the media trade in.
If you need a reason not to patronize Starbucks, the topless mermaid is a really lame one.
I think its a good thing. The more groups like this that get up and complain (about nothing) will drown out the big cry babies like CARE and the Gay, lesbian and Transgender groups.
Their logo should be a donkey a$$, as they’re sticking it up yours every time you buy their overrated overpriced trendy joe. All trends have their run and I think Starsucks balloon is losing air.
Reasons I don’t buy at Starbucks:
1.) Can’t find co-signer.
2.) Metallic jewelry/tattoos on workers’ faces spoils my appetite.
3.) The music they blare over their speakers isn’t fit for Gitmo detainees.
I think more companies should put naked breasts on their logos.
I boycotted them five years ago and never plan to go back plus I talked my
daughters into boycotting them as well,
so that makes four of us they lost. They are Anti-American & Anti-Christian org. so goodbye starbucks hello Tiger
Mart.
I see nothing wrong with naked female breasts.
(founding member of the male sexist club 1988)
When someone comes up with a coffee cup with three-dimensional women’s breasts, they’ll have my business.
I only see a young woman holding two giant carp by the tail. The carp do appear, however to have appendages upon which the woman can rest her bosoms upon.
I have plenty of other reasons to boycott them.
How are they anti-American?
How did you manage not poking out your eyes after looking at that? Sorry but she’s just butt ugly.
I don’t care about their politics. I just can’t for the life of me see why anybody would pay 5-6 dollars for a cup of coffee, no matter what kind of cute name they give it.
Funny..
there are a couple Starbuck’s in Vegas where hookers pick up their johns.
Mookie,
i think the reference is here:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/05/why-i-gave-up-starbucks/
San Diego? Isn’t that where that religious cult committed mass suicide waiting for their spaceship to beam them up? I’m just saying…
Damn. I left my large decaf coffee at the grocery shop after putting it down to pay for the fruit and veges I bought. Seriously.
*le sigh*
lets start a global war on mermaids!
Well, at least Starbucks isn’t run by Sharia principles like Caribou Coffee is. I think. If I have to choose, I choose American!
oh – it’s was Dunkin Donuts coffee btw – just as nice if not nicer than StarBucks, at about half the price.
Has anybody ever looked closely at a pack of camel studs? Look at the camel’s back legs. Look for the shape of a man. Look what he is holding. Some people even see a Lion in front of him.
*directed at the people in the article* Good grief, people. If you don’t want to buy something, then don’t. Just shut the hell up about it.
The laissez faire thing? That didn’t strike me as un-American but that’s just me.
If it helps, I’ve sworn off Starbucks!
(OK, so I’ve never gone to one. I won’t pay more than a buck for a cuppa joe.)
Yeah, that’s kind of embarassing. It’s a MERMAID. Some Christians can be just be over the top.
The best coffee I have ever had in my life – and every cup was as good as the previous was at a Holiday Inn in Collinsville, Illinois! Lord have mercy it was good -just stick an IV in my arm so I can have a continuous flow of the stuff!
RE: this logo – I really could care less about it one way or the other.
Yup – and yer welcome to drop by for a c cup in this quarter, Miss. But you might need to water it down; I was raised on Swedish-coffee, very strong with a lotta milk/cream!
ooops…. that should just be “cup”, not “c cup”, lol.
Tanks Purplepeep, Swedish??? I would try it even if it is strong! I’m a coffee drinkin’ fool.
I believe this is just one of those nutty fringe groups that see all manner of conspiracy in the silliest places. “Art Bell-ite” types, as it were.
I’m sure code pink is behind this…
Your welcome, Miss. It’s not as bad as one of my other bro’s coffeemaking, though. A pot of his coffee could carry me for 5 days – just two tablespoons from the pot and add water (milk, sugar) and you got a normal cup of coffee. (Seriously)
But I rarely go anywhere for just a coffee like the Starbucks devotees do.
A meal, with friends at a homey restaurant where the waitperson does refills when s/he passes by (“bottomless cup”), is more to my liking.
Watch the video this guy has on his front page. He walks into a Walmart and a library and yells, “Oh My GOD! 9/11 is an inside job!”
9/11 Truthers Against Starbucks!
Hmmmm…well, the mermaid could be called a “Marine”, so mebbe you’re unto something there.
Ohhhh, my head… I predict 2 or 3 code pink “witches” will claim to be “mermaids” and sue… even money that Edwards takes the case.
I also predict that if tried in the “state” of California they will win & coffee will go up considerably.
RBD -
Have you ever seen the logos our fighting pilots used to paint on their planes?
I think there are times to be outraged (e.g. the Beyonce kid’s clothing) and there are things that really aren’t a big deal. This falls into the “notta bigdeal” category for me.
May I ask of which denomintion you are a minister? Just curious, excuse the nosiness.
who else but a bunch of lunatic, anal women with a bunch of time on their hands would worry about some picture of on a coffee cup, and who do nothing but cause trouble so they can feel valuable..yep – gotta be Code Pink.
mookie,
just thought that was the reference, thats all.
personally, i’m of the mind, like others, that spending 5 dollars on a cup of coffee is just insane
am loving this display of evidence that El Rushbo is right: we conservatives make up our minds about issues at hand…ALSO, this is an awesome display of our free market…you don’t like SBUX for whatever reason, ok, go to another place………I love America!!!
On the plus side, if you’re tried in CA you’d be signed to a book and movie deal involving millions of dollars, so you could afford the price jump.
First of all, the mermaid is a bit zaftig…perhaps she’s had too many grande mocha frappucinos.
Secondly, she is a mutant. Mermaids normally only have one tail.
Reeeeeallllly?…….where’d you encounter a mermaid???
Heh, good point.
Look, none of the non-chain coffee joints in town here in Stockton offer anything better than Starbucks, and all of them are more expensive for the equivalent drink. None of them offer the kind of benefits for their employees that Starbucks does. I find these factors influence me more than some mermaid on a cup or some reactionary religious group.
I’ll keep going to Starbucks, thank you very much.
What is it that drives people to pay $4-5 for a cup of coffee anywhere? Is it the trendiness, tragically-hip factor?
Not directed at you specifically, Yashmak. It’s just a such an odd subculture to me.
one would think you would have a logo catching your eye while out shopping and you would like a cup of coffee..
like a cup of coffee!
sure as heck not thinking java when I see a Mermaid, I’m thinkin tuna sandwich.
Nah, AJ, it’s Charlie’s image that brings on the tunafish samwich cravings.
Must be a fisheries conspiracy. Hey wait – Starkist, Starbucks . . . it must be!
The group, which claims more than 3,000 members nationwide and has found a place on the fringe advancing various conspiracy theories….
Oh fercryin out loud! We are becoming the most offended society on Earth! So Starbux wants to put an antique semi-nude on their coffee cups. SO WHAT?
I mean I think these same worry-nannies would object to the Venus de Milo. It’s not like you’re looking at a skin mag or Britney Spears on a hot night!
So as to not offend 3000 (unoffical number) persons, Starbucks needs to change millions of cups for patrons who couldn’t care less.
I smell a fishing expedition for 15 minutes of fame and an Al Sharpton – Jess Jackson kind of payout for ‘the offense and suffering the cup’s logo caused Resistance members’.
Stop your b!tching and take yer freakin’ business somewhere else. You don’t have to buy coffee there you numbnuts!
I don’t – because it doesn’t matter what’s on the cup – it matters what’s in the cup.
– purplepeep
Well, I can’t answer for everyone obviously. . .
When I just want a cup of coffee, I brew it myself. I can fulfill my preferences there better than ANY of the coffee shops in town. When I want a dessert drink though, like a mocha or something, they do a better job than I do. Also, I’m a motorcycle rider, and one of the Starbucks in town is something of a focal point for the local riding community.
I don’t know or care about trendiness or trends in general. Does Starbucks even still qualify as ‘trendy’? And to be tragically hip, you have to hang out at one of the non-Starbucks shops in town, where they scowl down their noses at you for accidentally ordering a ‘grande’.
That’s where you’ll find folks in tie-dye Che shirts reading Marx in this ‘burg.
I can’t see this image as being capable of arousing prurience.
After all, a classic definition of a mermaid is:
“Too much fish to fry; not enough woman to love.”
Beaners (Now Bigbies) has better coffee if you are in the Midwest.. (Look for the big orange B)
only saying..
Amen to that. I can go to Dunkin’ Donuts and get a 24oz Great One coffee for two bucks.
YEEEUUUUU:
Every morning I go to one of my local Starbucks for my “fix” -double shot (of expresso).
I’ve been doing it for YEEEEEars.
I also own stock in the company and would like to retire someday-with $$$$
AFA the un-American part–I’ve called them whenever a mass -e-alert comes down the pike to make sure the anti American part is a myth.
OK!- out I go for my afternoon SB double expresso over ice. It’s hot here in CA today.
My personal thanks to all of you who still go to SBs.
As I said, SBUX is named for a character from “Moby Dick”…y’all must be on to something….
Thanks for your response, Yashmak. Though I gotta confess the image of a bunch of hogs parked outside Starbucks as the tailgunner is ordering lo-cal, decaf frothy mocha lattes for all does kinda give a giggle.
I’m not into the whole “dessert drink” concept at all, so that’s why likely why thing like Starbucks doesn’t do much for me.
Well, maybe a good ol’ shake or a malted – now, thar ya gotta “dessert drink”.
I’m not into Starbucks (named after the 1st mate on the “Pequod”) or Dunkin Donuts. I brew my own coffee (vanilla, hazelnut or 50/50) at home and use a travel mug. It’s not only cheaper but less hassle. My coffee maker even has a timer, so it starts brewing when I get up. The only time I stop by any coffee shop is on vacation…usually touring an area. The prices are outrageous, even for a plain cup of coffee; not to mention the disgust from clerks if you don’t order something real fancy. I’ve had coffee from all over the world. Good brewed coffee from home is still my favorite.
- purplepeep
Actually, me too. I’m a sportbike rider, which means I don’t need to fit the stereotypical ‘toughguy’ image of the Harley guys. There’s a guy who hangs out there, who rides a red & white HD Road King classic and sports a ’209′ hat and brags constantly about his affiliation with Hell’s Angels. Every time I see him there, I can’t help but snicker a bit. I have to bite my tongue to keep myself from asking him how his frappucino is.
Guys, guys, guys… clearly the rage over something so trivial as a Starbucks logo means that all of the world’s problems have been solved! We just must not have gotten the memo yet…
Last time I looked mermaids did not have two tails, only one like a fish. That is why some people are offended. A mermaid is not a two tailed fish!
I personally love Coffebean and Tea Leaf but I think they only have that in CAlifornia. It is the best, especially their frozen drinks. I hate Starbucks, always thought their coffee tastes burnt.
So, just to recap: Saying that a woman has legs like a prostitute is NOT a compliment?
Man, I’m glad I’m out of the dating game. It’s just gotten too complicated.
Actually, the emblem/logo is offensive in that it’s ugly and stupid…someone HAD to have had a better idea for a logo. One would hope, at least…
And we Christians have to be careful what we say is offensive and a reason to boycott something. All too often we make ourselves out to be dingbat fanatics. Not good. The world laughs at us too much as it is. Which is no big deal unless we ask for it. Like this instance. Save the fights for something worthwhile and worthy. Not a coffee logo…crikey, mates!
If this Christian group is so serious about their beliefs and they are in California then shouldn’t they focus their attention on the newly approved gay weddings?
ajmontana
ROFLMA
I suppose she should be wearing a burka.
The real boobs are the ones that pay that much for burnt coffee.
On May 16th, 2008 at 6:52 pm, JohnS said:
Last time I looked mermaids did not have two tails, only one like a fish. That is why some people are offended. A mermaid is not a two tailed fish!
Heartless bastard! she was deformed by global warming & it is Bush’s fault!
:::grabbing eraser to remove that from my list of sure-fire pick-up lines:::
Plenty of reasons not to go to Starbucks…..this isn’t one of them.