Starbucks wants you to have more coffee
 

The New Starbucks Trenta Cup Is Bigger Than Your Stomach

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...0x_trenta2.jpg

:yum:

I only drink my coffee with shitloads of sugar and milk....cant imagine how much sugar and milk il need for this.

steve is getting the shakes already

Yeah, but 3/4 of that volume is ice, which you don't drink anyway. I'm willing to bet the 916 mL is only 400 mL of liquid.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qFiyjwMlP0...CheckmateD.jpg

I'm willing to bet 916 mL of it is disgusting and overpriced.

Lol, this completely does away with the image of class Sbux goes for.

they were going for class? since when?

to me, every other coffee shop (coffee bean & tea leaf especially) exudes more class than sbux.

Agree to both.

Danny: Can I get a large black coffee?
Barista: A what?
Danny: Large black coffee.
Barista: Do you mean a venti?
Danny: No, I mean a large.
Barista: Venti is large.
Danny: No, venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.
Barista: A venti is a large coffee.
Danny: Really? Says who? Fellini? Do you accept lira or is it all euros now?

Please tell me this is in total jest, because grande is large in italian as well.

And yes, Starbucks was, and maybe still is going for class. But when you standardize your design over 10,000 stores, that's something you can never obtain.

Too bad they are not making a trenta for hot beverages :shakes head:

Hot drinks will come in bucket size

http://www.dcfud.com/wp-content/uplo...cks-sizes1.jpg
http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/wp-...cks-plenta.jpg

Even better

Starbucks. Helping fat people maintain their level of fatness with a caffeine twitch on the side.

Coffee wouldn't make people so fat if they didn't put so much sugar and cream in it. On its own, coffee is a dieretic. But cream is almost pure fat.

Too bad Starbucks coffee is so awful you basically have to put in sugar and cream in it.

Considering most people probably don't drink just straight coffee at Starbucks, they're ingesting massive amounts of calories. Mocha Latte with whipped cream and whole milk comes to around 450 calories for a Venti. Basically one meal.

It is a joke, it is designed to fit certain things to make a humorous point.
Yes, grande is large in Italian but that would ruin the fun.

If you wait a while, the ice melts, and it's all liquid.

No one would drink that.

If they're in the crawlspace, and I give them the options of the coffee I forgot I had or the fish offal, they usually choose the coffee.

Starbucks, like all coffee shops, has many different flavors. If you find all 20 of them bad, then I don't know what to say It could be you hate coffee in general, or have formed a bias against the starbucks brand.

I, myself, only like a few of them, but I'm not going to over generalize on their flavor. I don't touch any of the flavored junk, if that's what you're talking about.

on a srs note, I like drinking coffee black. I used to load it up with all sorts of sh*t: sugar, splenda, creamer, french vanilla, irish creme, etc.

When you take all the sh*t out of your coffee, you actually acquire the taste for coffee. Same thing with tea. It's made the whole experience better for me, but obv. that's a personal opinion.

Depends on the coffee one drinks. If I'm drinking the **** from a convenience store, I'll throw in the irish cream. If I'm at an actual coffee house, that may be a different story.

Actually, I like Wawa coffee, but yeah, some conv. store coffee is rat turds.

Pike Place Roast or whatever they call it is pretty good.

I actually think dunkin donuts has underrated coffee.

I love DD coffee, although I'm a fat man, so it doesn't count.

Single flavor brands are the where you'll find the most lovers and haters. I think DD has a decent blend for its only coffee offering. By contrast, I think McDonalds is horrid. Something about it just doesn't taste good to me no matter how I have it.

I actually think McDs is pretty decent, but I do prefer DD.

I've never had McDonalds regular hot coffee, so I can only comment on their iced coffee. It tasted like something with coffee flavoring added, as opposed to coffee. According to their website, this is what's in their vanilla iced coffee :icon14:

Premium Roast Coffee. Light Cream: Milk, cream, sodium phosphate, sodium polyphosphate, DATEM, sodium stearoyl lactylate, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate, sodium citrate, carrageenan. CONTAINS: MILK. Vanilla Syrup: Sugar, water, fructose, natural (plant source) and artificial flavor, caramel color (with sulfites), potassium sorbate (preservative), citric acid, malic acid. Ice.

You left out "various bodily fluids from disgruntled employees."

:icon18:

Seemed so obvious it went without saying.

I'd have to ask an employee with more than half a brain to find out what exactly is in their iced coffee. Whenever I see them making it, it looks like its all cream and no milk and nowhere near enough coffee, which also appears to be from an espresso machine. It's mroe like some kind of messed up iced latte than actual iced coffee.