I chose Starbucks for my place of study for my Ethnography of a Place Project. The only problem I have with studying a simple coffee shop is that I absolutely hate coffee. The only thing I like about it is the smell. For some strange reason it smells ten times better than it tastes to me. And in some ways I'm actually happy I don't have a desire to drink it along with the rest of the american society. Coffee is in a lot of ways like a drug. People have to have that caffeine to wake up in the morning and if they don't there can be physically draining consequences such as headaches and mood swings. People are addicted to it and need their fix to make it through the day.(http://www.myaddiction.com/education/articles/caffeine_addiction.html) This is a link to an article about how powerful and addictive caffeine can be. It also gives recommendations and solutions to solving caffeine addiction problems.
This is a cartoon displaying a mad man behind a computer hooked up with an IV to a bag full of expresso. I thought this was funny because Its just an extreme exaggeration of what white collar workers are like in society behind their computer. I also think the fact that my lack of knowledge having to do with most most coffee drinkers deal with day to day and what the consume gives me only an outsiders perspective on Starbucks. The only things I will order while I'm at Starbucks would be a carmel frappuccino and a bacon egg and cheese omelet. I don't think either of those things really count as coffee. Even though I grew up in a household with two addicts as parents I still have no curiosity or desire to convert to one of the worlds most common psychoactive substance.
