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That has to be one of his worst takes of all time. Regardless though, my post was more about coffeeshops rather than coffee specifically. The beauty of the 90s coffeeshops was that you could actually get your coffee for cheap. Back then the people serving you coffee (they didn't call them baristas) were not pretentious millennials that listened to Mumford and Sons like he's talking about in that image. I understand his sentiment there, but I'm talking about the coffeeshops of 10-15+ years prior to when he made that statement, prior to the hipster corporate takeover of the coffee world.

Bourdain was also a drunkard so I'm not surprised he had little patience for coffeeshops. They were really nice back in the day. Even the coffee shop in Frasier, which was a bit more upscale than the specific type I am nostalgic for, was still orders of magnitude better than the soulless white and grey ones of today