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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]sharps
2007-04-02 08:44 pm UTC (link)
You did?

I saw it on the Snopes message board.

I'm never going to go to Starbucks again (unless it happens to be the case that every German coffee shop employee ignores me for some enormous sin like standing near the coffee menu... as happened in Nuremburg).

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[info]perletwo
2007-04-02 08:53 pm UTC (link)
Not the same wank, as Sep reminded me above. This was on fandom_wank, and it had to do with an AU Stargate SG-1 fanfic where the crew ran a Starbucks. A fanfic critic had a rather...unusual reaction to the idea of the Atlantean crew members being baristas. Random Starbucks hate got mixed in there too. It was strange. One of those tangents that takes on a life of its own.

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[info]sharps
2007-04-02 09:34 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that one... Do you think it merits T-Shirts saying "I survived the SGA Racism Barista wank 2007"?

I just remembered that the snopes thread wasn't really wanky. There was just an incredibly long and dull rehash on American tipping practices. Everyone was in agreement on the tl;dr barista complaints.

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[info]perletwo
2007-04-02 09:47 pm UTC (link)
Something. That one was like falling down the rabbit hole, it just kept getting onto weirder and and weirder tangents.

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[info]suzycat
2007-04-08 10:24 am UTC (link)
*points*

You think Ronon is inferior, don't you? Because he's a barista!!!! Admit it!!!!!

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