If it actually tastes like a lake then it's probably the ice. Ice machine bins are notorious for growing algae in the bottom and no business likes sanitizing the bin because that requires emptying the bin and therefore not having ice for a while. I'm also willing to bet that dunkin "does their own ice machine cleanings." Which usually means that once it gets so crudded up that it stops working then they put it through a clean cycle so they can tell the repair tech that that they now have to call that they clean it. Ice machine manufacturers also don't like to advertize that the built in cleaning cycles don't actually remove the need to have them professionally cleaned; you only find that out if you read the service manual. Every 3-6 months you still need to take the whole thing apart to manually scrub the biological snot and limescale out of them.

That's the entire premise for Snapchat. And yes, it's fucking weird.

I got first introduced to Dunks 25 years ago in Boston. They used to actually have a distinct, strong coffee flavor. I didn’t like it, but like you say, it was relatively inexpensive. Over the intervening decades the quality of coffee has been inverse to the sugar content of the Dunkin’ menu. It’s all crappy sugar bombs these days and the distinct flavor that was their brand disappeared about 15 years ago. Also, the vast majority of the street litter these days in my area is dunks. I don’t know what it is about the brand but the paper bags and plastic cups in the road are mostly all dunkin detritus chucked out the window by shitty people.

You pay two bucks for coffee? If I'm paying two dollars or more for a cup of coffee I expect it to be some fancy shit like artisanal dried specialty espresso or some shit like that. God, American coffee culture sucks so much.

Are you not American or just rural? A cup of basic black in a city ain't cost 2 dollars for like 5-8 years. Probably even longer.

Not American. Not rural. I live in a major metropolitan city not in north America.

God, American coffee culture sucks so much.

America doesn't have culture, we have several hundred million "rugged individuals."

That's not uniquely American though...you'd easily pay 5EUR for an espresso where I live, and it will just be OK. A cup of filter coffee is also around 5EUR.

Absolutely, but I don't see tea drinkers making these kind of memes. They just like, drink tea. Coffee drinkers like to pretend their ritual has spiritual overtones to it.

How about old barley water?

Technically you could use any beans for your coffee. The purists might not agree with the name, but be as free as you want to be.

...oh. ok i'm never ordering ice in anything again

You shouldn't, I've never cleaned an ice machine in my life

Including the ones I own

Especially the ones I own

I thought Snapchat was for ribald but short lived photos.