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callmebliss:
I stopped at Starbucks for an ice coffee yesterday and it tasted strange. Like it was a little sweet. I had ordered it black, like I do everywhere, so I asked the guy if it was possible some sweetener had gotten in the cup.
“Oh yeah,” he said, “we always do our two classes pumps!”
Two. Classic. Pumps?!
They made me a fresh one with NO pumps of anything at all, simply (as Dennis Leary once put it) coffee flavored coffee. They also offered to let me keep the first one but I refused and handed it back.
A day later and I am still utterly boggled. Is this a thing in every Starbucks, putting liquid sugar into a coffee ordered black by default?! Is this just the one location? I need to find out, because this is NOT okay.
Don’t know if that’s a default thing, but “black coffee” doesn’t mean “no sugar” to everyone. My mom constantly gets asked for clarification on sugar, and has gotten sweetened coffee unexpectedly before.
I went into Timmies once and asked for just a regular plain coffee. I took one sip and handed it back asking why is there stuff in my coffee. Apparently a regular plain coffee at Timmies is a double double. Blech.
I actually just got this same shit at Starbucks, too.
Which, for a type I diabetic who needs to dose their insulin accordingly, is kind of a big fucking deal. Whenever I used to order cold brews, they were black by default and that was fine. A few days ago I got a Starbucks, same cold brew order as always, and found out by accident when my girlfriend asked for her cold brew to be sweetened that they already put 2 pumps classic syrup in it by default.
Like no. Since fucking when? You need to TELL people this shit, especially if it hasn’t always been that way. You can literally cause MAJOR problems for someone, especially a brittle diabetic. I’m lucky that my condition is stable enough that 15g of sugar won’t hurt me if it happens once by accident but a lot of people aren’t so lucky.
Fuck.
i know it does not help at all after the fact and also they are constantly changing recipes but maybe this could help someone:
- iced coffee comes with classic syrup
- vanilla sweet cream cold brew has vanilla syrup in both the cup and in the cream
- bc it is premade into the cream, even if you order it with sugar free vanilla syrup, there will be vanilla syrup in the cream
- cold foam (aka vanilla sweet cream cold foam) has vanilla syrup
- the matcha powder is presweetened; it contains sugar no matter how you order it
- the refreshers have caffeine (not sugar related but also something often omitted)
- white mocha, caramel drizzle, dark caramel sauce (used in the caramel ribbon crunch) and many seasonal sauces (pistachio, toasted white chocolate mocha, and caramel brulee for example) have dairy in them
- cross contamination is a huge risk at all times; most items are only getting lightly rinsed between uses (mentioning this particularly for dairy/almond milk traces in steaming pitches, blenders, and foaming pitchers)
but also i want to point out that the training for this job is often rushed and despite the company’s goal to standardize everything (so the drink i order in london tastes exactly the same as the drink i order in california), there is often a big gap between a recipe and what is being made by baristas.
obviously the issue here is a lack of communication by the company about what is in a drink but like. idk maybe this list could help someone
This is very used information, for which I thank you and am happy to share so more people know
