Special cups...won't change the taste of what's inside

At work we have this coffee system which is supposed to provide special coffee for each person through individualized packet brewing. There are several flavors of coffee (french roast, house blend, etc.) in single-serve packets. You take a packet, put it in the machine, and it dispenses your coffee in your cup, where you can sugar and cream it to your specifications.

This all sounds great -- except that the coffee is terrible. All of the flavors are pretty universally terrible. Bitter, watery, and burnt are only a few of the terms one could use to describe what it tastes like.

This week, the typical styrofoam cups (white with garish turquoise and magenta splashes of color) were replaced by new, sexy cups. They are a sand color, with dark chocolate lettering. Adorned with little coffee beans and steaming coffee mugs, the cups declare, "Espresso, Cappuccino, Latte, Cafe, Iced!"

That's wonderful and beautiful, but it doesn't change the fact that the coffee coming out of the machine tastes like dookie. I mean, the cup can say "cappuccino" all it wants and the french roast will still taste burnt and bitter.

Plain cups please. Really. The extra cost of the printed ones really isn't worth it.