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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]grrliz
2007-04-03 12:26 am UTC (link)
My mom loves doing that to people at Starbucks. She refuses to use their lingo and won't call a large anything other than a large.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-04-03 04:53 am UTC (link)
But it's not theirs. It's just coffee terminology, though "venti" is newer, invented to keep up with consumer demand for ridiculous amounts of caffeine. Initially the Starbucks menu had short, tall, and grande, like a lot of other coffee shops and roasteries.

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[info]grrliz
2007-04-03 11:53 pm UTC (link)
I've never encountered the lingo at any other coffee place, ever. Maybe Canadian coffee places are less pretentious, I don't know.

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[info]suzycat
2007-04-08 10:10 am UTC (link)
In my land, our drinks come in normal and big.

No, actually - now that I think of it, coffee (ie real coffee) is short or long if it doesn't have milk in it, or it has a special name like ristretto or doppio, and if it has milk in it, it's a flat white or a latte or a cappucino or some other random thing, cup or bowl. I've never seen the terms "grande" or "venti" anywhere but Starbucks.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-04-08 02:51 pm UTC (link)
Well, I'd suspect "grande" is kind of American, but I've seen it places other than Starbucks. But yeah, like I said, "venti" is some bizarre made-up name for consumers who for some reason need 20 fluid ounces of coffee (and a cold venti is 24 ounces! WTF. Maybe if you're splitting something...)

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[info]v_digitalwytch
2007-04-03 07:35 am UTC (link)
I think at the Starbucks by me, there's a specially made page in whatever training manual they have for decoding my orders.

Case in point, when I ask for a large espresso, it's use the Venti cup and fill it with espresso and charge approximately how many shots it'd take to equal.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-04-03 07:49 pm UTC (link)
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You drink twenty fluid ounces of espresso?

Truly, you are a goddess among women. Or insane.

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[info]v_digitalwytch
2007-04-04 05:22 pm UTC (link)
I've long accepted I have a caffine addiction. If I don't drink a certain amount, I get these near blinding migranes. One of those my size espressos has me covered quite well for a day.

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