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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]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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