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“Off Menu” Starbucks™ Items
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July 19th, 2010Costa Rica, Current Affairs, Food and Drink
I’m not a big fan (or “addict”) of Starbucks, like some people I know . . . and I’ve felt a little intimidated the one or two times I’ve been in a Starbucks, when all I want is a simple cup of coffee, but the people in front of me are confidently ordering things like a “Venti Iced White Chocolate Crème Frappuccino with whole milk and whipped creme” (760 calories – 190 of them from fat- 21 grams of fat, 550 mgs. of sodium, and 65 mg. of cholesterol . . . but not a drop of coffee or caffeine, by the way).One good thing about Starbucks is that the company buys lots of coffee beans from Costa Rica, which I assume is good for the Costa Rican economy. The home page of the Starbucks Web site contains a nice video with some shots from Costa Rica. (Look for the Imperial beer sign in the background near the end of the video).
Anyway, the point of this post is that, if you want to feel like you really know what you’re doing when you go into a Starbucks, you can impress everyone by ordering “off menu” – items that only “insiders” know about.
Here are some examples:
- Short Drink: if you’re craving just a mini pick-me-up, order a “short” version of any drink on the menu; it comes in a kid-size cup and costs less.
- Biscotti Frappuccino: buy an individual biscotto and ask your barista to blend it into any Frappuccino drink for a crunchy treat.
- Red Eye: a shot of espresso in regular drip coffee.
- Black Eye: two shots of espresso in regular drip coffee.
- Green Eye: three shots of espresso in regular drip coffee (with a side of insomnia and serious heart palpitations).
- Poor Man’s Latte: order an Iced Americano with no water and half ice, then pour in your own half-and-half at the condiments station; the result is a Breve Latte for a fraction of the cost.
- Chocolate Cream Frappuccino: a Frappuccino made with chocolate syrup and chocolate Frappuccino base.
- Cake Batter Frappuccino: a vanilla Frappuccino made with both vanilla bean and almond flavoring.
- Crunch Berry Frappuccino: a strawberry-and-cream Frappuccino with hazelnut flavoring; it tastes just like Crunch Berries cereal.
- London Fog: Earl Grey tea blended with vanilla flavoring.
- Zebra Mocha (aka Penguin Mocha): a combination white-chocolate/chocolate mocha.
- Red-Tux Mocha (aka Bleeding Penguin): a Zebra Mocha plus raspberry flavoring.
(I guess the point I want to leave you with is that I personally prefer Imperial beer over Starbucks coffee).


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