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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]aposiopetic
2007-04-03 10:55 pm UTC (link)
Sort of a bizarre take on things, but maybe one of the reasons that the names for things at Starbucks can get so insanely long is that they're such a big chain but they still want customers to be able to get a reliable product with minimal fuss. It's to avoid problems created with local slang, I bet.

For example (and this is a problem that still exists, so maybe it's not the best example), if you walked into a West Coast Starbucks and asked for a blended iced latte you'd walk out with an iced latte made with 2% milk. If you asked for it on the East Coast you'll probably get an iced latte made with whole milk* that has been put in a blender, so clarification via a fairly long name would clear up the confusion.
*Because drinks are made with whole milk unless otherwise requested.

Although then again my degree's in chemistry, so I actually prefer those "omfg, look at these chemicals that they're putting in my food!" long IUPAC names to trivial names, as then you know what the fuck is going on.

Here, I'll distract everyone from my over thinking with Julia Murney acting like a dinosaur.

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