# How complicated can a Starbucks order realistically get? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-complicated-can-a-starbucks-order-realistically-get/564291 "2010-12-15T22:35:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-complicated-can-a-starbucks-order-realistically-get/564291/61 "2010-12-21T21:20:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Well, in keeping with the thread, Cmdr. Riker really should order a coffee, shouldn’t he…? That’s not keeping with the thread. The subject is Starbuck, not Star Trek. Therefore, we should be discussing Battlestar Galactica. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-complicated-can-a-starbucks-order-realistically-get/564291/62 "2010-12-21T23:41:54Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > If you want to really confuse them at Starbucks, ask for a large coffee. This is a classic case of, “I didn’t read this thread, but…”, isn’t it? 🙂 I’m very excited to learn there is a short cup available at Starbucks and will be ordering it on my next visit. (iced breve vanilla chai latte, please) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-complicated-can-a-starbucks-order-realistically-get/564291/63 "2010-12-23T04:01:22Z")
> [@stargazer](#): > > Small, whole-milk cappuccino, I believe. Correct. As in the opposite of a Tall Skinny whatever. BTW, you have to ask for a “short” as it does not appear on the posted menu. Some places only have a tall like the Borders Starbucks I went to today ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-complicated-can-a-starbucks-order-realistically-get/564291/64 "2015-02-10T23:58:44Z")
I saw a headline, failed at saving a link, in some news source called ~_telegraph_ which said there were 87,000 combinations one could order at Starbucks. I couldn’t read the article so I don’t know how they arrived at this number. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-complicated-can-a-starbucks-order-realistically-get/564291/65 "2015-02-12T06:12:04Z")
A “child’s hot chocolate” gives a it in a short cup and a cooler temperature than if I ordered a Grande Hot Chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-complicated-can-a-starbucks-order-realistically-get/564291/66 "2015-02-12T13:15:32Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > I saw a headline, failed at saving a link, in some news source called ~_telegraph_ which said there were 87,000 combinations one could order at Starbucks. I couldn’t read the article so I don’t know how they arrived at this number. Now there’s something for a bucket list. Although, doing the math, at one cup a day it would take over 238 years to have one of every combination. At ten cups a day you could do it in 24 years. They’d probably make some little change in what’s offered halfway through the effort and throw everything off. \Zombie Coffee!\ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-complicated-can-a-starbucks-order-realistically-get/564291.md?page=3)