The link you provided to the site is wrong. You have unsobby, instead of unsnobby. (I thought there used to be a corrections link somewhere, but I don't see it anymore, or I would have sent this there.)

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McDonalds has some of the best coffee ever, so I'm all for it.

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McDonald's will be a free hotspot for the Zune store so it will be handy to grab a decent cup of coffee and get new music in the middle of the day.

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A lot of McD's have playgrounds to try to attract people with children to hang out (and presumably buy more stuff). May as well let the parents have something decent to drink (assuming the new coffies are decent).

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McD's in NZ has had a McCafe for quite a few years and even more popping up, they're a separate counter in the restaurants selling, panini, pastries and espresso coffee.. haven't tried don't think I would.

http://crapkitchen.blogspot.com/

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I like the "crazy names" for coffee as mocked by McDonalds and Dunkin' Donuts. I think "frappuccino" is the strangest used at Starbucks; pretty much everything else there is labeled in that very wacky made-up language, Italian. Just like the drinks at McDonalds and Dunkin' Donuts.

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mcdonald's is terrible. their food is awful, their coffee is crap. Honestly, anyone who falls for their advertising gets what they deserve. how many times do we have to see mcdonald's hopping onto some trend 5 years too late and imitating it in just the most embarrassing godawful faux recreation of whatever the original was? it's never good. it sticks around for six months to a year until they've drained what they can from our pockets due to curiosity and move on. mcdonald's is an economic and social parasite that feeds on our stupidity and willful ignorance. so if you find yourself in a mcdonald's due to circumstances outside of your own powers and the thought occurs to you that, "hey, mickey d's has lattes...only they're not called lattes because this is america and 'latte' is some sort of foreign gibberish, so mickey d's has, um, McCoffee n' Milks, and that sounds good!" remind yourself that mcdonalds specializes in hamburgers, was built on hamburgers, and their hamburgers taste like paper mill refuse. then leave. but not before doing some sort of vaguely effeminate karate kick on the way out, because that would make someone stuck working/eating in said mcdonald's to smile for the first time all day.

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So... they're rallying behind "unsnobby coffee", yet they're serving faux-Italian coffee drinks like lattes and "iced lattes"?

The new McCafes are hugely popular everywhere else in the world, because they serve well-made straightforward coffee drinks. I guess in America they have to pretend to be Starbucks, bizarrely.

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Patrick, don't forget that McDonald's actually serves Newman's Own coffee, very high-quality stuff. I'm not quite sure what you're going on about with "effeminate karate kicks", honestly.

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