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laughingbuddha
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: TrippinTeddy]
#7065496 - 06/19/07 12:20 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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It happens that i work for a major international coffee corporation, one that began in seattle and has now spread throughout the world. not all starbucks have a "grounds for your garden" program but most do. you don't need a "story"--coffee grounds are great fertilizer in general. rhododendrons particularly like coffee grounds. just go in and ask about "grounds for your garden" if you're nervous. you don't need to find a manager either. they won't look at you weird. they're good people. 
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: laughingbuddha]
#7065671 - 06/19/07 01:08 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'd tell them you're going to use the coffee grounds to assist you in growing pyschoactive mushrooms. That'll probably get you the grounds and they won't ask any further question... Except maybe the Punk Rock Kid that they leave at the machine (not the one who takes the orders) he'd probably want to know if you were serious and if you're going to hook him up if he hooks you up with the grounds...
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Psychoslut
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7065721 - 06/19/07 01:22 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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RogerRabbit said: Any breakfast type restaurant such as Denny's or IHOP will give you coffee grinds too. I took a bag into IHOP last week, and during the time I was eating breakfast, the waitress filled it up with several gallons of spent grinds. Don't worry about a 'story'. You don't need one. RR
I dont know man. I went to starbucks to get some one time and the manager wouldnt let me have them because he thought i was going to reuse them to make myself free starbucks coffee. I tried telling him its for my compost pile and he wouldnt buy it.
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GoodbyeOrb
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: Psychoslut]
#7065749 - 06/19/07 01:28 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Alright, what you do is walk in wearing a hoodie and a baseball hat. Keep your head down, so as not to get caught on tape. Walk up to an available teller, and hand her a duffel bag. Tell her that a bomb was placed in a trash can, and, if she doesn't fill the bag with money, you are going to blow up the bank. Wait, i think I'm posting in the wrong thread.
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The shroomy 1
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: HUBSonDUBS]
#7067898 - 06/19/07 11:05 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Shit! Coffee grounds arousing suspiciousness for illegal activities. I thought I'd heard it all. And I just walk into Wal-mart and ask for 10cc syringes all the time! Just slap them in the face with a load of intelligent scientific bullshit that goes way above their head and they'll say......"uhhhh yea sure!" (Not wanting to look stupid. Works for me all the time!
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: The shroomy 1]
#7068024 - 06/19/07 11:36 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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if they dont make the silver bags for compost at your local starbucks, then just tell them to start doing it, and they will
fucking earth conscious fags
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SmokenBabyJesus
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: HUBSonDUBS]
#7068310 - 06/20/07 01:20 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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xaxphaanes
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: SmokenBabyJesus]
#7068329 - 06/20/07 01:26 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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i had a guy come into starbucks today and say he wanted spent coffee grounds for worms somethin about worms eating it and he using the worms as fish bait
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dutchmushroom
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: xaxphaanes]
#7068580 - 06/20/07 03:28 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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daaamn this is an old thread,
peace out Dm
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Blutjager
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: The shroomy 1]
#7068704 - 06/20/07 05:42 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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The shroomy 1 said: Shit! Coffee grounds arousing suspiciousness for illegal activities. I thought I'd heard it all. And I just walk into Wal-mart and ask for 10cc syringes all the time! Just slap them in the face with a load of intelligent scientific bullshit that goes way above their head and they'll say......"uhhhh yea sure!" (Not wanting to look stupid. Works for me all the time!
It may just have something to do with my appearance as I can at times look rather menacing or threatening even when I'm in a damn good mood (And I'm sure that the fact that it was 3 in the morning didn't help any )but only once did I plunk down an empty spore syringe on the pharmacy counter and say "Do you have giant syringes" .. the chick just meekly said "We don't have those here" and looked like she was gonna call the cops so I just winked at her and left. It wasn't as priceless a moment as the "Bloody twenty dollar bills at the gas station " story but I did get quite a kick out of it..... I mean seriously what do they think,that I'm some kind of super junkie that need to mainline 10cc's of heroin so I can get to sleep or something.
That is the only time I ever tried and than I just started keeping all my empty syringes from back when I got some good deals on spores and got a ton at once(Shroomery vendors of coarse)
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Blutjager
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: GoodbyeOrb]
#7068710 - 06/20/07 05:45 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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GoodbyeOrb said: Tell her that a bomb was placed in a trash can, and, if she doesn't fill the bag with money, you are going to blow up the bank.
AAHH hahahahah fuck yes ,I wish I hadn't rated you the other day so I could give you 5 for this
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JustAHobby
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: Blutjager]
#7068816 - 06/20/07 06:59 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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I went in the other day to buy a pound of Sumatra (Asian Extra Bold coffee, freaking good stuff). It probably helped that I had just given them business, but they put up no fuss when I asked for coffee grounds.
However, BRING A BAG!!! I didn't and they were fortunately able to use a bag containing good coffee (unused) by moving the good coffee to another container and giving me the bag.
Yeah, don't make it out to be a big deal. Just go in and ask "Do you all have used coffee grounds that I can have?" There is a good chance someone will ask why, but NOT because they think you're up to no good, but just because they're curious. Just tell them that it's for your mother's, wife's, girlfriend's, or your garden or compost pile. Better if it's not yours, so if they start getting curious (innocently) about what you grow, etc., you can just say that you don't know for sure, you're just doing her a favor.
Also, if a manager or someone says that you're trying to reuse the coffee grinds to make your own, just look at him and be like "Dude, are you serious? I'll brew some up using your grinds right now and tell me if you would want to drink that."
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FellowGrower
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: JustAHobby]
#7957912 - 01/30/08 09:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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My favorite thing to say, if anybody ever asks wtf I need what Im asking for, (in this case, Coffee Grinds)... I like to look up to the left and reply "Hmm what did they tell me to say here?" then I look at them and say "My Garden?" (notice the question mark).. Either that, or I say..."I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you...Still wanna know?" or, "If I gotta tell you why then FUCKIT! you can keep your stupid coffee grounds!" ...again, thats just what I do. Stay up, and hold it down!
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Re: How to ask for coffee grounds at starbucks? [Re: FellowGrower]
#7958803 - 01/31/08 12:36 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was looking for a coffee grounds tech and this came up.
www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/6580303
I don't understand a lot of the terminology. But it's clear to me that he's spawning from a bulk substrate onto a coir/coffee (with eggshells) mix. Then after he lets this colonize he throws on 50/50 verm/peatmoss casing? To be honest I never really understood some casing techs but i was under the impression that it was your bulk substrate then casing. It looks like applying a second substrate would carry contam risk would it not?
Anyway I usually just ignore questions that I don't want to answer when it comes to getting supplies. I was in an ag store looking for some appropriate sized syringe needles to go with my syringes for my LC and she asked me what I was using them for. I didn't want to talk about it so I just told her I needed some that were long and not too narrow. If your worried then just use the some woman's garden I remember using that one when everyone would look at me like I was crazy for needing gypsum. I'd like to see a more comprehensive casing tutorial like this guy's in a little more coherent of wording.
Though from what I understand he was making his coir/coffee 50/50 with eggshells for the calcium.
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