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El Juno ([info]eljuno) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-04-02 13:57:00


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If milk is rape, does that make this prostitution?
The question:

Is it fair/right for a customer to order what we, at my store, call a "ghetto-latte"?

The "ghetto-latte" is ordering any size Iced Americano, with no water and half ice (This lady's drink is an Iced Venti, no water, half ice, Americano). She then takes the drink and goes to the condiments bar and adds her own half and half.


Seems reasonably simple, right?

Not something you'd expect to cause, say, a three-month, several-hundred comment long flamewar which would eventually get heated enough that comments would be closed?

Apparently, none of us know Starbucks that well.


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[info]eilan
2007-04-02 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Wow, how cool.

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[info]kadath
2007-04-02 07:00 pm UTC (link)
It's just water from the tap, though. Not bottled.

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[info]eilan
2007-04-02 07:02 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I was informed. Ah well, I don't like to drink water anyway, so that's not the way I can be a total sucky cusomer when in the US.

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[info]kadath
2007-04-02 07:04 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I noticed that farther down, sorry.

Ordering water isn't sucky, and waitstaff that say otherwise are asses. Now, ordering water and a bowl of lemon slices on the side so you can make your own faux-lemonade? That's sucky.

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[info]eilan
2007-04-02 07:06 pm UTC (link)
I obviously fail at sucking - I wouldn't even have thought of that. I can't help but be amazed at the length some people will go to save money while eating in a restaurant.

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[info]queencallipygos
2007-04-02 07:43 pm UTC (link)
For some reason this is reminding me of how John Kerouac used to get plain cups of hot water at the Automat and then dump a lot of the free ketchup into it to make "ketchup soup" when he was broke.


...Tangents ahoy!

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[info]brown_betty
2007-04-04 02:59 am UTC (link)
Eeeeeeeeeew.

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[info]hurricane
2007-04-02 09:13 pm UTC (link)
You know, if restaurants actually charged for the lemon, I'd pay it. I don't make table-lemonade, I just like the little kick that lemon gives the water. (I just usually ask for one wedge in the glass, like you'd get in iced tea.)

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