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Starbucks Was Almost Named Something Entirely Different!

Starbucks Was Almost Named Something Entirely Different!

Starbucks lovers brace yourselves because this news is about to rock your world! While coffee drinkers around the globe have come to associate the green and white siren call of Starbucks with a caffeine shot it may have turned out quite differently!

According to Delish, co-founder Gordon Bowker recently sat down with the Seattle Times to discuss some of the lesser-known facts behind the…

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Out of the dreary  sameness of existence, a measure of dramatic life may be drawn.  Even the most commonplace, the deadest among the living, may play a part in a great drama ... Life we must accept as we see it before our eyes, men and women as we meet them in the real world, not as we apprehend them in the world of faery.  The great human comedy in which each has a share, gives limitless scope to the true artist, to-day as yesterday and as in years gone ... The sooner we understand our true position, the better.

James Joyce (cited from Gordon Bowker’s James Joyce: A New Biography)

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In 1971, partners Jerry Baldwin, Gorgon Bowker, and Zev Siegl (left to right) founded Starbucks in Seattle, selling fresh-roasted whole beans to local customers.