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Title: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on July 26, 2020, 06:51:34 PM
Starbucks® Blonde Caramel Cloud Macchiato* (Contains eggs)

What is a cloud and why are they adding eggs and clouds to coffee

Oatmilk Honey Latte

The fuck, now there's oatmeal in coffee?

Cold Brew with Salted Honey Cold Foam

Ok now this is a troll right? The fuck is salted honey and why is it a cold foam and what does this have to do with coffee

Nitro Cold Brew with Dark Cocoa Almondmilk Foam

They're just putting random words together right?


WHITE PEOPLE PLEASE EXPLAIN
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: VomKriege on July 26, 2020, 06:56:51 PM
My god, we all thought you veered too young but it's because you're stuck in 2005.
 :omg
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: shosta on July 26, 2020, 06:57:58 PM
Whisked egg whites produce a foamy texture similar to milk froth, but thicker (also common in cocktails). Oatmilk, like coconut milk, is a milk substitute made from - you guessed it - oats, which many people like because it tastes the closest to real milk. The honey isn't salted, it's the coldbrew itself that's salted (salty + sweet is a niche but not uncommon flavor combination in desserts). Nitro means nitrogen gas injected into the liquid to give it a refreshing finish similar to carbonation - you have to try it yourself to understand.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Kara on July 26, 2020, 07:30:30 PM
This MF said deail.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Uncle on July 26, 2020, 07:38:17 PM
the oatmilk one is shiiiiiiiit but I encourage everyone else to try it and learn this fact for themselves
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: curly on July 26, 2020, 07:44:28 PM
Starbucks® Blonde Caramel Cloud Macchiato* (Contains eggs)

What is a cloud and why are they adding eggs and clouds to coffee

Oatmilk Honey Latte

The fuck, now there's oatmeal in coffee?

Cold Brew with Salted Honey Cold Foam

Ok now this is a troll right? The fuck is salted honey and why is it a cold foam and what does this have to do with coffee

Nitro Cold Brew with Dark Cocoa Almondmilk Foam

They're just putting random words together right?


WHITE PEOPLE PLEASE EXPLAIN

First is a bullshit drink Ariana Grande invented but people who like foamy sweet drinks like it

Oatmilk is great in lattes but the sbux honey blend is garbaggio

Salted honey cold foam can be good if they put the syrup in the cold brew but if it's made the way it's supposed to with the syrup in the foam it's godawful

The new almond milk foams are alright but still think you're better off going with the salted caramel cold foam cold brew. Starbucks makes bank selling sugar drinks to adults who delude themselves into thinking they aren't drinking the adult version of a milkshake. They need all these fancy ass drinks because nobody is coming there based on the quality of their coffee.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Uncle on July 26, 2020, 07:46:18 PM
Oatmilk is great in lattes but the sbux honey blend is garbaggio

I accept your judgement, having not had oatmilk outside of starbucks' specific offering
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: curly on July 26, 2020, 07:48:27 PM
The real mystery is why anybody buys food at Starbucks
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Uncle on July 26, 2020, 07:50:42 PM
The real mystery is why anybody buys food at Starbucks

do you mean "anything at all" or specifically food

because their food prices
:titus

but also their drink prices
:titus

but at least the drinks can be a treat, the food is ridiculous bottom of the barrel frozen microwave shit
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Pennywise on July 26, 2020, 07:53:35 PM
 :whatsthedeal
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on July 26, 2020, 07:53:58 PM
The fact that any of you, never mind more than one of you, actually have ordered any of this before and understand it and have opinions about the flavor profiles is genuinely shocking to me.

 :doge :doge :doge

Like actually paying $5+ for someone to add fucking salt to your coffee?

 :doge :doge :doge

Am I out of touch?

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Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: curly on July 26, 2020, 07:57:50 PM
Paying for Starbucks   :heyman
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Himu on July 26, 2020, 08:04:02 PM
you think only white people drink at starbucks?

get a regular ass coffee with almond milk as creamer, put honey in it. Boom. Cheap and good shit.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on July 26, 2020, 08:09:10 PM
Cheap

 :holeup

Does Starbucks run "any size coffee for $1" promos like 7/11 does?

Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Tasty on July 26, 2020, 08:27:07 PM
I like Dunkin but I'm also New England trash so
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Transhuman on July 26, 2020, 08:30:16 PM
If I woke up near a place that sold fresh cinnamon donuts I would be a fat, happy man
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: EchoRin on July 26, 2020, 08:35:43 PM
I like Dunkin but I'm also New England trash so
Truth

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Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Tasty on July 26, 2020, 08:36:46 PM
:jawalrus :mynicca
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: CatsCatsCats on July 26, 2020, 10:20:16 PM
She’s an angel I think, idk i only watched bsg once through
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Kara on July 26, 2020, 10:22:53 PM
Like actually paying $5+ for someone to add fucking salt to your coffee?

 :doge :doge :doge

Am I out of touch?

iirc salt is added to coffee in parts of Ethiopia and that's a locus of coffee production and consumption, so yes.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: CatsCatsCats on July 26, 2020, 10:25:03 PM
I add a Lil pinch of salt to hotel coffee, makes it less shitty
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: thisismyusername on July 26, 2020, 10:36:06 PM
This MF said deail.

He doesn't fuck mothers. He fucks the mother's children. 💅💅💅💅💅💅💅💅💅
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: ToxicAdam on July 26, 2020, 10:37:45 PM
MMarsu was right.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Trent Dole on July 26, 2020, 10:54:30 PM
Uh the deal with Starbucks is it's coffee that costs almost as much as or more than a box at Taco Bell but it's pretty dang tasty coffee, and there's cold drinks like frapuccinos which are really just milkshakes given a weird name so adults can go grab one and not feel childish and not be hounded by their kids to get them one. Also every so often right wing people get mad at them for some reason and to get their revenge instead of just not going there and giving them money they say their order is for Trump or whatever and then the broke ass student baristaing in order to keep their loans from being too soul crushing has to say 'Trump'. Which clearly destroys their business far more than not going there and giving them any money would. Yeah.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Uncle on July 26, 2020, 11:42:06 PM
how much salt can you add to a drink before it stops being a drink and becomes a broth/soup variant
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: shosta on July 26, 2020, 11:43:25 PM
how much salt can you add to a drink before it stops being a drink and becomes a broth/soup variant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gose
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: ToxicAdam on July 26, 2020, 11:57:05 PM
I want to try it. But it’s got to be terrible if only one brewery was left making it at one time.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Kara on July 27, 2020, 12:48:37 AM
Berliner Weisse is better, but my resting blood alcohol when I wake up in the morning is higher than proper Berliner Weisse. (Microbreweries here make some with ABV that's way too high.)
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Himu on July 27, 2020, 12:52:36 AM
Imagine asking this question. Are you so isolated from society you haven't had a frappucino? Where have you been the last 20 years?
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Oblivion on July 27, 2020, 02:03:32 AM
doesn't matter

all i order from there are the mocha fraps and the java chip mocha fraps anyway :rejoice
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Himu on July 27, 2020, 02:22:08 AM
You've never been in an airport and needed a quick coffee and went to Starbucks and ordered a coffee with a bagel?

You're such a weirdo.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Kara on July 27, 2020, 02:23:02 AM
I don't want to be alert when I get on a plane.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: VomKriege on July 27, 2020, 02:31:01 AM
I don't want to be alert when I get on a plane.

What if your plane get hijacked by mercenaries planning a Coup against Maduro ? Your rhetorical skills will have to be sharp.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: BIONIC on July 27, 2020, 02:35:02 AM
I don't want to be alert when I get on a plane.

What if your plane get hijacked by mercenaries planning a Coup against Maduro ? Your rhetorical skills will have to be sharp.

:maduro
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Kara on July 27, 2020, 03:28:38 AM
I don't want to be alert when I get on a plane.

What if your plane get hijacked by mercenaries planning a Coup against Maduro ? Your rhetorical skills will have to be sharp.

https://youtu.be/gVGbDEAnDyo
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Pissy F Benny on July 27, 2020, 06:02:26 AM
Starcucks :tocry
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on August 01, 2020, 05:19:59 PM
Imagine asking this question. Are you so isolated from society you haven't had a frappucino? Where have you been the last 20 years?

I have no beef with the frap.

It's a sound concept.

A cappuccino is a traditional coffee beverage. Add ice, and it's frozen, and now its a frappuccino.

And sure, I was in middle school and I went to the mall and got a mocha frap.

But you know what? They never asked me if I wanted to add a salty cloud.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: shosta on August 01, 2020, 05:30:24 PM
I want to try it. But it’s got to be terrible if only one brewery was left making it at one time.
(https://d1ynl4hb5mx7r8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/18114028/sierra_otraVez.png)

Berliner Weisse is better, but my resting blood alcohol when I wake up in the morning is higher than proper Berliner Weisse. (Microbreweries here make some with ABV that's way too high.)
everyone's favorite alcohol is different (and we all know what you think about me drinking mezcal...) but personally I feel that the salt cutting the bite of a sour beer is what makes gose the perfect sour.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Kara on August 01, 2020, 06:13:48 PM
Have you had Mas Agave by Founders? It unifies your 2 loves. 8)
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: curly on August 01, 2020, 06:54:18 PM
Imagine asking this question. Are you so isolated from society you haven't had a frappucino? Where have you been the last 20 years?


A cappuccino is a traditional coffee beverage. Add ice, and it's frozen, and now its a frappuccino.

That's not what a frappuccino is you MORON
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: shosta on August 01, 2020, 06:57:17 PM
Have you had Mas Agave by Founders? It unifies your 2 loves. 8)
Never even heard of this :leon

:hmm

I'll try it :obama
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on August 01, 2020, 08:13:21 PM
Imagine asking this question. Are you so isolated from society you haven't had a frappucino? Where have you been the last 20 years?


A cappuccino is a traditional coffee beverage. Add ice, and it's frozen, and now its a frappuccino.

That's not what a frappuccino is you MORON

I was ready to destroy you but I guess you're right

Quote
Frappuccino is a portmanteau of "frappe", the New England name from the french "lait frappé" a milkshake with ice cream, and cappuccino, an espresso coffee with frothed milk. The word was coined and trademarked in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][2] In the Boston area, a "frappe" (pronounced "frap" and spelled without the accent) is a thick milkshake with ice cream,[2] derived from the French word frappé.[3]

The original Frappuccino drink was developed, named, trademarked and sold by George Howell's Eastern Massachusetts coffee shop chain, The Coffee Connection and created by then employee, Andrew Frank.[2] When Starbucks purchased The Coffee Connection in 1994, they also gained the rights to use, make, market, and sell the Frappuccino drink.[2] The drink, with a different recipe, was introduced under the Starbucks name in 1995 and as of 2012, Starbucks had annual Frappuccino sales of over $2 billion


Im conflicted now
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 02, 2020, 02:08:07 AM
Next we're gonna find out froyo is the traditional name of some medieval Dutch desert.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: remy on August 02, 2020, 02:20:06 AM
I want to try it. But it’s got to be terrible if only one brewery was left making it at one time.
(https://d1ynl4hb5mx7r8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/18114028/sierra_otraVez.png)

Berliner Weisse is better, but my resting blood alcohol when I wake up in the morning is higher than proper Berliner Weisse. (Microbreweries here make some with ABV that's way too high.)
everyone's favorite alcohol is different (and we all know what you think about me drinking mezcal...) but personally I feel that the salt cutting the bite of a sour beer is what makes gose the perfect sour.
It's weird. I bought some of this but the label was blue. I thought i was gonna hate it but it was actually really good. Only sour I've liked so far.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on September 03, 2020, 03:20:21 PM
Hey guys.

So over the past couple of weeks Ive been going to Starbucks frequently to write reviews for you all on my experience.

But those fuckers KEEP FUCKING UP.

I paid $$$$ for a nitro cold brew and its full of ice. And ice kills the nitro. SO IT TASTES LIKE $1 ICE COFFEE BUT I PAID LIKE 6

I feel like going back there and knocking over a few displays.

That is all.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: shosta on September 03, 2020, 03:33:45 PM
Honestly, getting a nitro with ice is fucking whack dude. I would have gone full Karen on those sons of bitches. I would have torn up the whole store and trashed the place and shat on the floor and broken all the machines over that single peace of disrespect. That's completely unbelievable and you should not have had to put up with that.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on September 03, 2020, 03:41:44 PM
So what makes this worse is that this my second attempt at a Nitro Cold Brew.

When I got one last week, my reaction was "this isn't cold at all". In fact, it was downright warm. I got home and put it in the freezer and 30 minutes later it was delicious. Truly an excellent drink, but I dont want to spoil my reviews.

So today they hand it to me with ice and my first reaction was "oh its cold! They screwed up last time! This makes sense" But nope, its a watered down mess. So I googled and sure enough ice ruins the whole nitro thing and its not supposed to come with it. It also means I got less coffee.

I thought the whole Starbucks gimmick was that it's consistent as fuck?



Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on September 04, 2020, 02:51:42 AM
wait until you hear about the secret anti coffee that's available and being tested off menu.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: chronovore on September 04, 2020, 02:51:52 AM
Pretty sure even snooty Santa Cruz Verve coffee serves their cold brew with ice in the cup. I might be wrong, I’m just remembering how they served it in Shinjuku.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on September 04, 2020, 03:05:49 AM
You should try domenico's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkwWw753MHg).
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on September 08, 2020, 09:11:15 PM
The app keeps hitting me with "double star days" and these gamified promos like "buy two macchiatos between sept 6 and sept 9 to get 80 extra stars"

....are they trying to get me addicted to caffeine? Is this legal?
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 08, 2020, 09:38:18 PM
"I'd like a 12 ounce pike roast coffee to go. thanks!"

hth. my rate is $250 per sentence, talk to my assistant out front about payment options.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: team filler on September 08, 2020, 09:45:22 PM
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Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: curly on September 09, 2020, 12:23:15 AM
Pretty sure even snooty Santa Cruz Verve coffee serves their cold brew with ice in the cup. I might be wrong, I’m just remembering how they served it in Shinjuku.

Starbucks serves regular cold brew with ice, just not nitro.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: chronovore on September 09, 2020, 06:17:28 AM
Pretty sure even snooty Santa Cruz Verve coffee serves their cold brew with ice in the cup. I might be wrong, I’m just remembering how they served it in Shinjuku.

Starbucks serves regular cold brew with ice, just not nitro.

Pretty sure I ordered nitro cold brew, and it was served with ice in San Jose California. I would not be surprised if they were screwing it up.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on April 04, 2021, 03:32:38 PM
Guys did you know about the stars program?

You can load up a drink with all the stupid shit like cold foam and sprinkles and whatever and get it for free!

Free!
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on April 04, 2021, 03:37:40 PM
You've never been in an airport and needed a quick coffee and went to Starbucks and ordered a coffee with a bagel?

You're such a weirdo.

Looking through this thread, and this is very timely!

So a few weeks ago, I was at an airport connecting. The place was packed, and it was the south (Charlotte), so lots of people without masks. I was hungry/thirsty, but didnt want to eat in a super crowded area.

So I figured Id get a frap. Easy way to get drink + calories and I could slurp it down under my mask.

I go and order a "vanilla frap" because I want a frap thats vanilla flavored, instead of mocha flavored.

Those motherfuckers handed me a white beverage. NO COFFEE.

I say excuse me, where is the coffee. And they say "a vanillabean frap doesnt have coffee".

First of all bitch, I didnt say vanilla bean. I said a vanilla frap.

Second of all.

WHO THE FUCK IS GETTING A COFFEE BEVERAGE WITHOUT COFFEE AT STARBUCKS

It was a white paste. It looks disgusting.

They made me a coffee one though, so it worked out in the end.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on April 04, 2021, 06:21:13 PM
You could have just ordered a coffee bro

It was oddly hot in the airport I needed an ice cold frapuccino beverage to cool me down
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on April 04, 2021, 07:34:43 PM
If you can't drink coffee because it's hot wherever you are, you're a bitch imo

you dont drink hot beverages from a straw you lunatic
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Tasty on April 04, 2021, 07:41:18 PM
:whatsthedeal
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on March 22, 2022, 10:43:50 AM
WHY THE FUCK DO STARS EXPIRE
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Tasty on March 22, 2022, 04:02:56 PM
If you can't drink coffee because it's hot wherever you are, you're a bitch imo

you dont drink hot beverages from a straw you lunatic

You can.

It's actually quite pleasant if the coffee is really hot.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: Rufus on March 24, 2022, 07:18:05 AM
WHY THE FUCK DO STARS EXPIRE
Entropy, man. There's no escape.
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: james on August 29, 2022, 10:40:30 AM
 :drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge


Tomorrow.

Pumpkin Day.


THEYRE BACK!!!!!!
Title: Re: What's the deail with Starbucks?
Post by: who is ted danson? on August 29, 2022, 03:48:55 PM
I've never seen an attractive person drink in starbucks