After spending eight hours sitting inside a Starbucks, I still can say I haven’t tasted the chain’s coffee. Or its croissants. Or even its water.

The mega coffee brand recently changed its policies so that almost anyone can hang out in the store or use its bathroom without buying a thing. The change, along with anti-bias training for all employees this week, was in response to the arrest of two black men waiting for a friend inside a Philadelphia Starbucks.

I am a 6-foot-3, 245-pound black man in my early 30s -- not unlike Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, the two 23-year-olds arrested and released in April in an incident that led to a firestorm of controversy.

So, a day after more than 8,000 Starbucks locations across the country closed for training, I went to the location in Woodbridge to conduct an experiment: Would they really let me walk in, use their bathrooms and sit at their tables free of charge?

I would keep to myself and not do anything against store policy, which bans things like taking a nap. I was going to act like the two gentlemen did that day and see what happened.