Yes, well not me really but most people, sorry girls, you meet are on a diet of some description. Ladies, do you really need to be on a diet? Or is it just some topic of conversation?
So I was hovering in the local Starbucks waiting for a friend to turn up last Friday and I was hit by the following revelation:
How can you claim to be on a diet when you drink this?
What were they drinking, you ask? Well it was a triple shot Frappuccino with hazelnut syrup and whipped cream on top; to which they added about 4 table spoons of sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, chocolate and vanilla powder.
Dude, that drink contains more calories that all my 3 meals put together. Seriously, you starve yourselves all week to drink this every day and wonder why your diet is not working?
Stop drinking this and maybe you will discover there is no need to be on a diet and you will be a happier person.
If you want coffee fine, I think it is a good things, but coffee should be had with maybe a little milk and that’s about it. But no Starbucks has found a commercial niche, serving gunk and passing it off as coffee. No one in a sane frame of mind will add vanilla, nutmeg or cinnamon to coffee, let alone flavoured sugar syrup.
If you dear reader belong to that group of people, think twice before ordering it again, think about how much sugar you are putting into your body. A glass of Coke will be healthier.
Save the obese by boycotting Starbucks.
Signing Off
Lemon Tree Man
What's an American chain of coffee joint to do if it's coffee doesn't really match up to the brews from other countries that are steeped in rich coffee tradition and culture?... Simple... invent flavored syrups to add onto their coffee and market it aggressively as the "new" coffee and hence, there you have it - all of the above which you have described! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's similar to going into a burger joint to order a triple sandwiched burger, upsize the fries and drink BUT making it a diet cola.. which of course does not provide any massive help to one's calorie counter but evidently, psychologically, it seems to make one feel better!
And oh, though the LTM's call to boycott Starbucks is his way of helping or rescuing mankind, I don't believe he will get any sympathy points from the shareholders of Starbucks! But hey, there's always hope right? Cos every small effort counts! :)