How can something that looks so unappetizing, so green taste so good? You should have seen the horrified looks I got on the way back to the office! Not to mention the "what is that?! from our receptionist. Anyone else tried it? Like it? Hate it? Shudder at the thought of a green drink? I think it tastes almost like green tea ice cream, topped with blackberry jam. Very sweet, too.
Doesn’t the BlackBerry short out when you dip it in that wet stuff?
I tried the BGTF last week, and I thought it was pretty good. Not as sweet as my favorite, the vanilla frappuccino, but still pretty good. My husband tried it and hated it, though. Oh well. More for me.
I tried it for the first time this week. Good stuff.
My classical argument against green tea is that it doesn’t taste like anything. This solves it.
I love the original Green Tea Frappuccino, but the blackberry flavor tends to overpower the BGTF, I think.
Love it, with or without the blackberry. Tastes like a 50/50 bar. Yum!
Is this a Starbuck’s thing or a bottled brand?
I don’t usually like green tea, for the same reason Lazlo mentioned (it doesn’t taste like anything!), but this sounds good - I love blackberries.
I’d like to try it, if I only knew where they were.
Biblio- you have to actually go in to a Starbucks to get one. It’s a blended drink, like your standard mocha- Frap.
Thanks, DinoB. I’m not one of those Starbucks-haters 
, so I’ll go get one this afternoon.
I tried one yesterday. I thought the blackberry flavor was cloying…almost tasted like cough medicine…it’s back to soy lattes for me.
You bastards. I was all set for tastebud nirvana, and (as **Gail ** opines) I got a Robitussin milkshake. Blech. It goes to show de gustibus non est disputandum. Oh well.
Darn you, I came in to try making more or less this joke. Way too slow I see. 
They were giving out samples this morning.
Tasted OK, but much too sweet and cloying. All I could taste was the blackberry and the whipped cream, like a blackberry milkshake. I think the green tea part is just to make it sound more healthy.
Blackberry Green Tea Frappacino. How yuppie.
I’m sorry, but anything with Frap in it sounds like it is slang for …uh…man juice.
Now that’s Customer Service!
I never did get one. The line was too long, and I saw the sign for it and realized it was made with Tazo tea. I don’t care for the Tazo brand tea; it tastes like perfume to me. Yuck. Add in the comments from others that it tastes like a cough syrup frappuchino and I think I’ll pass.
This is going to sound like the stupidest question, but there’s only one Starbucks where I live and I never go there. What makes this green tea drink a “frappuccino”? Does it have coffee in it? If not, why is it called a frappuccino?
It’s part of the Starbucks mystique. All blended iced drinks are frappucinos, even the cremes, which are basically milkshakes, with no coffee or tea whatsoever. I think it’s all part of Starbucks plan subvert the English language with Starbucks-speak. Actually, it’s all part of the branding, you know, so if you always go to Starbucks, you ask for their drinks by name, even if you’re not actually at Starbucks. I think I read a post a couple months back where the poster’s wife asked for a macchiato at a restaurant and they couldn’t make her one, “because we’re all out of carmel sauce.” :smack: Resistance is futile…
The Blackberry Green Tea Frappacino is my newest addiction. I can’t get enough of it. I’d just now like to take a moment and brag that since I’m a Barnes and Noble employee, I get 50% off all items in the cafe…including this new heavenly frosty green beverage 
The blackberry stuff does tend to overpower whatever it’s put in with. I tried a vanilla bean frappuccino last night with blackberry and it was mainly blackberry with a little bit of vanilla sweetening.
You can also get green tea drinks without the blackberry shmoo, for those of you who like tea but aren’t fans of the blackberry.
Incidentally, any tea beverage at Starbucks is going to be Tazo brand. The two companies have a mutual understanding.
Also, the next “phase” starts in a few weeks (hopefully meaning the end of all the “Akeelah and the Bee” pimping, good lord did they go overboard with that) and they’ll be introducing another new, very sweet flavor. I wish just once in a while they’d bring out a new drink that didn’t involve adding more sugar to sommat. Last one I can remember was the Frappuccino Lite (still available, hooray).
– Dragonblink, ex-Barista extraordinaire.
(Almost forgot – regarding the word Frappuccino. It’s a trademarked term originally just applied to the coffee-based blended beverages. When they introduced the non-coffee-based Creme Frappuccinos, they kept the Frappuccino name because of its recognition. The only thing scarier than Starbucks’s legal department is their marketing department.)
For political reasons and for practical reasons. They’re bullies. If there’s a Peet’s around, go there for better quality stuff. If there’s a M&P, that Starbuck’s hasn’t yet discovered and ran off, go there.
But… My need for the drug can overcome that hatred, so once in a while I stop at one to get my cappuccino fix. Problem is, they kinda stumble when I ask for a cappuccino. Once they called an old guy (mid-twenties) out from the back to prepare it for me.
Sheesh! The OP didn’t even have to mention the company name and you all knew what it was.
That really sucks.
I refuse to even try the evil, poisonous concoction which is the actual subject of this thread. How many here have ever even eaten a blackberry (the fruit).
I feel better. I need a cappuccino.
Peace,
mangeorge