Me, I’m a simple gal – “Large regular coffee, leave room” (so I can add half-and-half and sweetener). When the weather is suitable, I get a large iced coffee.
None of those frou-frou yuppie concoctions for me, nosiree bob!
Yesterday I headed out to run a few errands, and passed a couple walking their dogs – two standard poodles, one white, one black, each with the pom-pom haircut I’ve never seen except in '50s magazines before.
Whoa. Weird. That was supposed to be another thread, obviously.
Maybe I should have some coffee…
>>What do you order in Starbucks?
Coffee
:rolleyes:
I order a large coffee, whatever name they call it, I ignore, calling it large like JESUS MEANT IT TO BE NAMED!
Sometimes with a shot of flavouring.
I order whatever frou frou drink I want, usually a frappucino (light version if possible). For me, it’s those drinks that make Starbucks. Although sometimes when it is cold I’ll try their hot drink specials.
If I want regular coffee with milk, I do that myself at home, thank you.
Medium hydrochloric with two scoops of grounds, poured twice through a used industrial chimney filter.
Oh wait - that’s what I get. What I order is a regular plain coffee.
I don’t usually go to Starbucks, because we have lots of good local coffee shops. I usually get the Belle du Jour, white chocolate and almond. If I’m in the mood for more chocolate, I get a Liquid Brownie (mocha with almond). Iced, unless it’s really cold outside. I used to get white mochas, but the Daily Grind isn’t very convenient, so I don’t do that much now. They have the best white mocha ever. Yum.
When I must visit Starbucks, I order a double espresso. I can count on it being fair to good. But a few local joints make superb ones.
There isn’t a Starbucks here that is open to the public (there is one in the TSYS building, but the general public can’t get in). Joe Muggs at Books-a-Million does some nice iced coffee concoctions.
Twickster, those poodles were probably in show clips, which I agree are pretty silly looking. Standard poodles are beautiful, intelligent dogs but I always say a male poodle must be very secure in his masculinity to wear that clip.
My drink is a Quad Venti Non-fat Cappucino. Soy if I’m going to be singing or doing vocal work that day. Add a lemon-cranberry scone, and you’ve got my breakfast of choice. Mmmm.
You know, before I lived in Seattle, there was a Starbucks three hours away from where I lived. Anytime I was in the area, I’d go, and get all the little overpriced novelty chocolates they had, too. I don’t remember what I’d order, but it was always too small and too hot.
Now that I live in Seattle, there are several nearby, one a couple blocks away (yeah,* that * far), but I go to Tully’s instead. I haven’t been into a Starbucks even once in the two years I’ve been here.
If I did venture into one, though, I suppose I’d just go up to the counter and say, “Give me a great, big coffee, lots of sugar, a little cream. I don’t care what it is, just make it caffeinated.” They’d probably hate me, but I don’t feel like learning new and unusual terms for coffee every time I step into a different coffee shop.
I like the frappaccinos. I’m very good at accidently making the coffee splash up through that tiny drinking hole when I get hot coffee, but the frozen stuff is more viscous and thus less likely to stain.
grande caramel macchiato
See, I don’t actually like coffee all that much but this has tons of fat and sugar in it.
Why would they hate you? The employees don’t give a crap. They’d just give you a large coffee and probably let you put your own fixin’s in it.
Usually, “tall caramel macchiato with four pumps of vanilla, extra hot” which is the second most perfect drink in the world - after “grande caramel macchiato with seven pumps of vanilla with whipped cream, extra hot,” for special occasions.
When it really is too hot, a caramel frappucino.
Starbucks is the local coffee shop.
This past winter I fell in love with Chantico, (a teeny tiny cup of [what tasted like] hot cocoa with a chocolate bar melted into it). I tried not to get it too often, because it was horribly fattening, but I’ll get it at least once if they bring it back this fall. It was like sex in a cup.
Grande Sugar Free Vanilla Soy Latte is my addiction…I’ve cut back on going to Starbucks…I think it’s causing my financial problems.
My daughter and I have discovered It’s A Grind—a local franchise that is actually featured on Showtime’s series Weeds… They have a smoothie type drink called a Maui Mango (only available until Labor Day). Yum! Orange, Mango and White Chocolate! Anyway, It’s A Grind has a stamp card, where you get your twelfth drink free…something Starbucks does’t do…and you get a double stamp for a fancy frou frou drink like a Maui Mango. It’s all good.
I used to get a carmel macchiato or a skim capuccino with hazelnut. Unfortunately, my stomach can no longer handle that caffeine/milk/sugar combination, so I’m stuck with plain decaf if I go at all.
Grande Americano with an extra shot. Iced during the summer.
Are you me?
That’s what I get, only no vanilla. The only thing I get vanilla added to is my latte when I go elsewhere.
Starbucks is an occasional thing for me though, I usually drink what I brewed at home or Tim’s.