The Perils Of Sonic Coffee

Calendar December 30, 2005 | Posted by Aubrey Turner

A few months back I stopped at the local Sonic for breakfast and ordered coffee to go with it.  The coffee was nasty.  I suspect I could have drained some of the oil out of my truck’s engine and strained it through a moldy sweat-sock and it would have been better than this coffee.  Hoping that it was just an aberration I gave them another try a few weeks later and found them to be no better. 

In an episode of hope springing eternally, I tried the coffee at a Sonic in Amarillo yesterday morning.  Gack. 

While it’s only a two-location sample, I can only conclude that Sonic’s coffee is supposed to taste like it does.  Maybe the person in charge of getting coffee for Sonic is a tea drinker or something.  I can’t see how anyone who actually likes coffee would serve something that hideous.

Heck, as much as people go on about McDonald’s food, at least their coffee is coffee-like.

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2 Comments

  1. Cinomed says:
    December 30, 2005 at 5:33 pm

    Heh, I steer very clear of fast food coffee. Yet Denny’s ahs some of the best coffee you can get at a “cheap” place, they serve Millstone coffee, awesome I tell ya.

  2. Aubrey Turner says:
    January 3, 2006 at 9:18 am

    Hmm… there was a Denny’s right next to the hotel (the LaQuinta at Ross-Osage off of I-40 in Amarillo).  The hotel even gave me a 20%-off coupon for Denny’s, but I chose Sonic because I could take the dog with me.  I didn’t want to leave her alone in the hotel room for very long.

    I like the Sonic food, it’s just their coffee that tastes like bilge water.