Latte: It’s just milk and coffee
It can rarely be said that a visit to Starbucks is, of all things, enlightening. I mean sure, they have those "The Way I See It" blurbs on the cups, but I regard those as nothing more than another venue for obscure millionaires to parade their idealistic musings for the average coffee drinker to ignore. No, I must contend that intellectual growth is not a usual part of the Starbucks experience.
But for me, this trend was violently contravened when I visited my nearby Starbucks earlier today. My sister, brother and I went with the intent of buying a gift card for someone's birthday, and I figured that I might as well get something to drink. Because I hadn't originally planned on getting anything, I had to borrow money from my sister. She allowed me to do so only under the condition that I didn't get the white chocolate mocha (my favorite), as we were going to share the drink, and it just so happened that she utterly detested my favorite Starbucks beverage.
So after brother and I walked into the cramped Starbucks, I perused the menu of butchered Latin to find a suitable drink. I eventually settled on the caffè latte, since it didn't seem to contain anything that would aggravate my sister's palate.
I purchased my drink and the gift card, and as I walked out of the Starbucks I sipped the latte, to find that it tasted like nothing more than coffee and milk.
I was dumbstruck. I paid $3.25 for coffee and milk. Now, you may at this moment be utterly verklempt at my lack of coffee cognizance. I admit, it's probably common knowledge that a latte is just coffee and milk. But you must understand that I don't frequent coffee shops as often as most people, so my ignorance is justified. In my mind, "latte" sounded like some fancy, posh term well-fitted to the beverage it describes. Little did I know that it's nothing more than Latin for "milk." Caffè...latte.... Coffee...milk.
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Phil, this is it; the blog to end all blogs for you. Keep this one!
Starbucks = Rip off!
June 24th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
What about the smell from the drivethru(don't question the spelling)? it's like a fog of beans. yeah, coffee from starbucks is like buying something on eBay: it might be worth it, but it's definitely overpriced.
June 25th, 2007 at 9:58 am
I love the new blog: the name, the motto, the template, the whole thing. It is definitely a keeper! And I also love the caffe latte and the Green Siren that makes it.
July 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
It's even worse than you describe. For a long time now I have asserted that Starbucks is a seller of MILK; coffee is an afterthought.
Advice to recently graduated college students embarking on the next journey to productive citizenry: Learn to make your own coffee. You'll save bundles! Cheers.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:14 am
hah.
July 13th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
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