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# Hmm.
South Park got it right. The coffee (in general) is better than what you used to get in local cafes. When they still existed, of course. Before 2001, remember?
(, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 20:58, archived)
#
i don't recall coffee shops before 2001 :( unfortunately all I can remember is Starbucks arriving :(
(, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 21:00, archived)
# for about 5 years before that
there were similar chains trying to ape starbucks, not too well
before that it was either posh independent coffee shops, crap independent coffee shops, or caffs
(, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 21:07, archived)
# Oh right
I was only a diddy person then, so probably not paying attention to coffee shops :)

(, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 21:11, archived)
# It's true,
they are all gone.

It is very, very sad.

We have only 1 non chain in our whole city centre here.
(, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 21:00, archived)
# I think
we have three or more...but then it is Cambridge :)
(, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 21:02, archived)
# Exeter won (lost?) an award for being the least original high street.
It's shit.
(, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 21:03, archived)
# I've been
to Exeter only once. Even so, I concur :P :)
(, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 21:05, archived)