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Starbucks also failed in Australia iirc, because literally everywhere has better coffee.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Starbucks also failed in Australia iirc, because literally everywhere has better coffee. They've been trying to sneak back into Melbourne again in recent months.
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I am bringing myself down to one lovely takeaway a month so all this burger talk is kinda... meh
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Neddy Seagoon posted:They've been trying to sneak back into Melbourne again in recent months. There is a couple in Sydney that seem to be doing OK but they're right in the CBD and you could probably open anything there and find enough losers to keep you in business.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Starbucks also failed in Australia iirc, because literally everywhere has better coffee. And meanwhile Donut King goes from strength to strength. I'm lining up there to get a chocolate dinosaur, but it's chockablok with boomers and their coffee cards.
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:I am bringing myself down to one lovely takeaway a month so all this burger talk is kinda... meh Get yourself some good takeaway instead then  .Chrpno posted:And meanwhile Donut King goes from strength to strength. I'm lining up there to get a chocolate dinosaur, but it's chockablok with boomers and their coffee cards. Get the chocolate donut man and make him suffer limb-by-limb!
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Tossing up between Dinosaur creampie And Don't chop the dinosaur daddy
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Chrpno posted:And meanwhile Donut King goes from strength to strength. I'm lining up there to get a chocolate dinosaur, but it's chockablok with boomers and their coffee cards. Are they still around? The one I used to go to with my gran shut down a long time ago. Apparently they were one of those chains that kept loving over their franchisees until they all closed.
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Feb 27, 2023 10:27
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Jestery posted:Tossing up between Dinosaur creampie
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Are they still around? The one I used to go to with my gran shut down a long time ago. Apparently they were one of those chains that kept loving over their franchisees until they all closed. They still exist here-and-there, ditto for Wendies.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Starbucks also failed in Australia iirc, because literally everywhere has better coffee. There's one opening up in the lowest economic suburb in Toowoomba in the next couple of months. I'm pretty sure they're targetting the eshays/eshettes who think that Nike footy shorts and Nautica bitchbags are high fashion
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Inceltown posted:There is a couple in Sydney that seem to be doing OK but they're right in the CBD and you could probably open anything there and find enough losers to keep you in business. Those basically operate on tourist dollars and very little else I think, I honestly don’t know anyone who drinks it even once or twice a year. Iirc Starbucks launched into oz with like 80 stores, and shut down like 65 of them within 6-7 years. Lol. Turns out Australians actually want coffee, not Starbucks’s milkshakes in disguise. Bear in mind they also launched these stores with basically no market research, no testing or piloting, or anything other than an arrogant assumption that whatever worked in the US would work here Get hosed gently caress off etc
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Are they still around? The one I used to go to with my gran shut down a long time ago. Apparently they were one of those chains that kept loving over their franchisees until they all closed. my local one shut a while back, i looked it up one day to see why, the franchisee was a kiddy fiddler
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Biggest ever cocaine bust in Australia Some champagne comedy from the guys trying to get the loot quote:Police learned the alleged Australian arm of the group was waiting to receive the haul about 28 December, prompting WA officers to put together a dummy package using an inert substance.
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Yeah Starbucks failed and someone else bought the rights for Australia and thought about it for three seconds They (re)opened stores in CBDs to cater for tourists and families, at universities for students and shopping centres for boomers
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Ringtail possum gtfo of Sydney only to find out the truck they caught went to Queensland so it's coming back home.
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I am enjoying this fast food/cafe talk. And I have some bullshit white noise opinions that I feel I must inflict upon you. 1) The dinosaur donuts at Donut King are fucken awesome. I always used to love getting one at the Karingal Hub 2) Starbucks failed in Aus. because we already had chains of generic coffee places that existed everywhere, (Gloria Jeans etc.), so there was no niche for Starbucks to fill. And the inner city hipsters(tm) wanted proper barista style fancy arse coffee, that Starbucks's sugary brown water could never compete with. and 3) Where do spiders fit in on the milkshake scale? Do places still serve them? I always used to get a spider when we went to the Pancake Parlour as a child.
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BrigadierSensible posted:3) Where do spiders fit in on the milkshake scale? Do places still serve them? I always used to get a spider when we went to the Pancake Parlour as a child. I'm sure plenty of cafes still serve them. Hungry Jacks has this rip-off. https://www.hungryjacks.com.au/menu/frozen-drinks-en/frozen-coke-spider
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In Australia and New Zealand, an ice cream float is known as a "spider" because once the carbonation hits the ice cream it forms a spider web-like reaction. It is traditionally made using either lime or pink cream soda.[9][10][11] In the UK and Ireland, it is usually referred to as an "ice-cream float" or simply a "float", as "coke" is often used generically to refer to any cola in the United Kingdom, and "soda" is usually taken to mean soda water, sweetened carbonated drinks instead being collectively called "soft drinks", "(fizzy) pop" or "fizzy juice". In Mexico, it is known as "helado flotante" ("floating ice cream") or "flotante". In El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Colombia it is called vaca negra (black cow), while in Puerto Rico it is referred to as a "black out". In the United States, an "ice cream soda" typically refers to the drink containing soda water, syrup, and ice cream, whereas a "float" is generally ice cream in a soft drink (usually root beer).
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Wendys australia is funnily enough also known for milkshakes you need to eat with a spoon/insulin injection. Been a while since I had one but they're pretty good.
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Laserface posted:Wendys australia is funnily enough also known for milkshakes you need to eat with a spoon/insulin injection. I wanna try one of these.
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Jestery posted:Tossing up between Go to Bread, Jessica!
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I wanna try one of these. They're generally found in a standalone kiosk somewhere in a forgotten section of a suburban shopping center, spread sparsely through the country enough you're surprised one still exists when you stumble across it. (Ditto for Donut King tbh) And yes their milkshakes, and ice cream, were actually pretty good from memory. I'm actually a little sad there aren't really any around Melbourne anymore. Their flake shakes were my go-to. Laserface isn't kidding about eating them with a spoon, they're generally served with a straw that opens out at the far end so you have a spoon to scoop and suck with.
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I need to buy a reusable straw, the paper one at the cinema disintegrated into oblivion a third of the way through the drink
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Neddy Seagoon posted:They're generally found in a standalone kiosk somewhere in a forgotten section of a suburban shopping center, spread sparsely through the country enough you're surprised one still exists when you stumble across it. (Ditto for Donut King tbh) Nah, the Wendys Crunchie shake was always way better than the Flake one
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90s ads with australians trying to do american accents are a very particular mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF9_Usyqvv8
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Nobody is putting on an American accent in that. Or maybe they're just doing such a bad job of it that I can't tell the difference between a fairly normal Aussie accent their attempt at a fake American one.
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It's subtle, but you look closely you'll notice those are actually animals, not Americans.
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I suppose I was thinking more the other one, which very much dates it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtlLPXED8ZQ
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Is the snake supposed to be his girlfriend? I don't think he should have used his gorilla grip on her like that but it was a different time.
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Well 10 years ago I was talking with some Sydney wankers who reckoned Marrickville was the new Erskineville.
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Hope you're not planning on catching public transport in Sydney today. Whole train network is down and busses are so full they're not even stopping at Railway Square. Some sort of communication network problem.
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Chrpno posted:Well 10 years ago I was talking with some Sydney wankers who reckoned Marrickville was the new Erskineville. The inner west is still the inner west. everything from erko to canterbury rd maccas is still cool and full of the boheems, queers, trans, muso, junkie, derro and art students on mum and dads dime as it ever was. marrickville is gentrifying pretty hard with heaps of flats that will choke the roads once they're finished. the maccas they want to build on marrickville road is stupid. the rest of the inner west beyond that is fine too, just not as much entertainment based nightlife or attractions besides ethnic cuisine. marrickville is also bigger than newtown/enmore/erko combined
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