After she rang up the amount, I then presented her the coupon (which I didn’t reveal beforehand). She laughed, comped the entire drink, and I left.
At first taste, it tasted just like a shot. The 13 shots in it were just too strong. However, when I got home, I mixed it more with a spoon and it became drinkable (even enjoyable to my girlfriend). It was very sweet and I’m still shaking a bit. I didn’t attempt to drink the entire thing since I’d like to sleep tonight….
UPDATE: We put it in the freezer and it’s delicious frozen!
What’s the most expensive Starbucks drink you can imagine? Share your recipes in the comments.
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YAY, Starbucks wank! Carey = Consumerist Santa
@JeffM: There is a short, it’s 8 oz. I usually order it because I don’t want a ton of milk, but still lots of espresso flavor. My typical order is a double short cappuccino, but any drink I get there now is a double short (2 espresso shots in the 8 oz cup) because it’s better and cheaper.
the most expensive drink might be a double shot of espresso in a venti cup and then top the cup off with splenda.
@phalex: I live in China. With innumerable brands of the stuff it’s about the same price as regular milk (which runs about $1/half-gallon, and cheaper before the exchange rate started tanking- been out of America for so long dunno how pricey it is).
One thing you have to give Starbucks, the company, credit for is that they pay and treat their employees pretty well (granting even part-timers health bennies). And I have found in my own experience that the people who work at Starbucks are cool — more so than the typical Starbucks customer. It’s a weird dissonance. So for this reason alone, I’d rather spend my money at Starbucks than at a fast food joint.
However, I hardly buy their coffee. I stick with buying plain tea and a snack.
So in summary: Starbucks’ treatment of their employees, and the baristas themselves = cool. But their coffee and the typical Starbucks customer = not so cool.
who drinks that crap????????
@b612markt: Me too
@thewriteguy: Starbucks employees may be cool people, but I can tell you from personal experience that most part timers don’t have benefits, since there is a strict average amount of hours a part timer has to work to qualify, and managers are told by corporate to mess with the schedule so most people come in under that requirement by 5 or 6 hours. That “benefits for part time employees” thing is just something Starbucks puts out there so to overcome customers’ liberal guilt.
…I’ve got a venti gingerbread latte sitting right next to me. Starbucks is the closest thing to work and when I need a quick pick-me-up, it’s where I go. The area I work in isn’t a great place to go driving around in unless you know exactly where you’re going. Unless you live here, good luck navigating. So I stick to my tried and true routes because I just haven’t had the time to find a better coffeeshop.
*shrug* I don’t see the big problem with Starbucks, aside from the fact that the coffee just isn’t always very good.
I think making blended coffees like lattes and such, it takes a lot of skill to be able to do it really well. It is what keeps people coming or makes them leave, I think. Whether it is Starbucks or an indie shop, I’ll go to where the better coffee is. A lot of times it is the indie shop, but where I went to college, the closest indie shop was better at milkshakes than coffees. The clerks at Starbucks and many of the indie shops were students at my college, but the Starbucks people were a lot nicer and did a better job. One guy in particular made the most amazing caramel macchiato.
Also, I can’t really be considered a “serious” coffeedrinker…well, as soon as I get the shiny coffeemaker I’ve got my eye on, maybe I’ll be able to actually brew something well. My coffeemaker right now is half broken from its last trip in the car coming back from college. But I do love different types of coffees and roasts. I kind of see Starbucks as the necessary evil…kind of like fast food. I hate fast food, but when I need something quick, don’t have time to make it myself, it’s a convenient thing.
I think I’ll go to Tim Horton’s and order a double-double.
You have to at least give Starbucks credit – you wouldn’t be having this huge boring thread about coffee if it weren’t for Starbucks nationalizing it. I say nationalizing as the rest of the world or many parts have of course been coffee addicts for centuries. But before Starbucks the only concern in America over coffee was “sugar or cream sir?”
as God is my witness, i have never been to starbucks.
Ok. Here’s me being a coffee geek.
Starbucks DOUBLE roasts their coffee. Caffeine content in coffee is determined primarily through roast. The lighter the roast the more caffeine is in it. Therefore, due to excessive roasting, Starbucks has virtually no caffeine. I feel like they are scamming everyone because few people know that if it tastes strong it has very little kick. Because so few people know this, they augment their crappy tasting coffee with flavor shots and dairy to kill the burt taste, and espresso to kick up the caffeine. Imagine if the coffee was actually well roasted, people would spend alot less money for a tasty coffee beverage.
Sick. Was there even room for milk after all the shots/syrup?
i sure hope this dude left a tip… otherwise, way to just be an ass for the sake of a “funny” blog post
starbucks debates are more annoying than Walmart and Mac vs PC debates.
@Witera33it: Sorry, but you’re no coffee geek; you’re repeating an old myth about the caffeine. See here [www.energyfiend.com] for accurate info about caffeine content.
They DO have a small. It’s called a short and it’s not on the menu. Most of the calories in a drink are in the syrup and the milk. Even if you order nonfat milk, twelve ounces of nonfat milk in a tall is 120 calories and that’s before any syrup is added. A short only has 8 ounces of milk, knocking forty calories off the drink and deepens the flavor with a higher coffee-to-milk ratio.
I order a double short sugar-free cinnamon latte. It’s delicious, costs $3.24, and is about 90 calories.