# Most complicated drink possible at Starbucks

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 23, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-complicated-drink-possible-at-starbucks/291561 "2005-02-23T17:56:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-complicated-drink-possible-at-starbucks/291561/42 "2005-02-28T18:42:45Z")

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> [@Mathochist](#):
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> Thanks for the pedantry. I tossed this answer to my “blog” and someone fired back “with a twist of lemon” (6). I don’t know whether or not this is a valid addition to the drink as it stands, since I don’t go to Star\*ucks and at the place I go instead I only need to resort to “large, plain, black coffee” (5) when the “server” (2) – they have the self respect not to overinflate themselves by saying “barista” (3) – is new and doesn’t know what I mean when I say “coffee” (2).

I’m not sure a twist of lemon goes with a blended drink. With a hot drink? Let’s see how far we get, integrating other suggestions as well:

venti seven-shot three-shot-decaf one-and-a-half-pump **sugar-free** amaretto **hundred and seventy degree** two percent seven Nutrasweet with whip extra caramel extra sprinkles caramel macchiato **with a twist of lemon**.

1. And that’s pronouncing “caramel” as two syllables. If they calibrate their thermometers to five-degree increments, “hundred and seventy-five degree” for one more. I think “hundred and seventy-seven degree” is probably pushing it.

Me, I can’t take more than about nine syllables before lunch.

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