stringy
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Post by stringy on Oct 23, 2017 5:35:56 GMT -6
It's cloudy and dark here and I want it all.
QOTW: forced to go to Starbucks. What's your order right now?
And your guilty pleasure order?
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Post by charlotte on Oct 23, 2017 6:09:06 GMT -6
Just poured!
DS is home with me this AM until I take him to his pumpkin patch field trip. Somehow need to log on and get some work done while parenting.. this is not my forte.
My regular order at Sbux is an Americano. I would say my guilty pleasure order is a skinny vanilla latte.
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mapleme
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Post by mapleme on Oct 23, 2017 6:20:08 GMT -6
Standing and drinking coffee in the kitchen while I hope that the kids ignore me just a little bit longer.
I do not like Starbucks roast profile (too burnt), but it do like their French roast ok. If they don’t have that, I’ll usually get their blonde.
ETA: I can’t do sugar, so in my early coffee drinking days I was experimenting with what I liked in a coffee. I stopped and an airport Starbucks and put Splenda and creamer (and maybe cinnamon?) in my coffee. One of only 3 or so times that I’ve thrown out a coffee.
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Post by ovenrack on Oct 23, 2017 6:23:11 GMT -6
I successfully weaned myself off coffee, I think. No headaches anymore, at least not strong caffeine withdrawal ones. This morning I've had three glasses of ice water.
At starbucks, I get a grande passion iced tea lemonade, unsweetened.
My guilty pleasure order when I worked a very physical job five days a week and my boss would buy for us was a java chip frapucchino, which is basically a milkshake. It happened pretty rarely.
I only go to starbucks maybe 4-6 times a year, though.
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mapleme
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Post by mapleme on Oct 23, 2017 6:24:20 GMT -6
Oh as a guilty pleasure coffee, I love putting Maple Cream Liqueur or Apple Cream Liqueur in it on Sunday morning.
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Post by mc13 on Oct 23, 2017 6:57:05 GMT -6
The little girls slept from 5pm-730am with only 1 wakeup each. I hope that means they officially kicked their sickness.
Dunkin Donuts home brewed with whole milk and sugar.
I’d get a latte with whole milk at Starbucks. And guilt pleasure, java chip Frappuccino - aka a million calories and grams of sugar.
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Post by Dramaphile on Oct 23, 2017 7:03:31 GMT -6
Homemade soy latte with honey, as usual, and a toasted eggo. J starts his part-time job today and so I packed Nugget lunch and toasted her a waffle to bring in the car when J drops her off with the babysitter. Managed to squeeze out the door before he woke her up so she wouldn't freak out when I left the house.
My usual Starbucks order is a grande soy latte, and I put in a packet of honey and sometimes a little cinnamon. But Saturday I went to the fancy new Starbucks that just opened and they have nitro draft cold brew and I got a nitro freddo? Can't exactly remember what it was called, but it was nitro cold brew with caramel foam on top and it was sooooo good. I usually need cream in my coffee, but it needed nothing. 10/10 would order again, sadly the fancy starbucks is nowhere near on the way for my commute.
My guilty pleasure order is a java chip frappuccino or a salted caramel mocha.
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milano
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Post by milano on Oct 23, 2017 7:26:27 GMT -6
I just finished my second cup of Folgers, with truvia and almond milk. It was meh. I just bought a bunch of Peet's so I'm excited to break into that once the Folgers is gone.
When I go to Starbucks (which is like once or twice a month now, but when I was working was almost every single day) I get a Grande seasonal latte or a caramel machiatto. If it's an afternoon stop I get a Venti iced tea lemonade combo, usually peach but last time I tried strawberry and I was pleasantly surprised so that will be my new go-to.
And I have a real hard time not ordering a cake pop or two. Or three, don't judge. All their flavors are delicious so picking one is damn near impossible. I also had a bit of a cheese danish addiction for awhile.
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rugger
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Post by rugger on Oct 23, 2017 7:33:45 GMT -6
Local dark roast, black, as usual.
Current Starbucks order would be an iced cold brew with classic syrup and a smidge of cream.
Guilty pleasure order: pumpkin mocha (half pumpkin syrup, half mocha syrup).
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Post by mintyblueair on Oct 23, 2017 7:54:10 GMT -6
I'm just about to make a French press of a local roast for my mom and I. Cream and sugar will be added.
At Starbucks my regular order is a tall double latte. My guilty pleasure drink is a tall double mocha. Except at Christmas when I order double eggnog lattes, yum!
I also love their cake pops 😍
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Post by nikkipal on Oct 23, 2017 8:19:04 GMT -6
My usual Counter Culture with hazelnut creamer. If I have to get Starbucks it's usually medium roast with cream and sugar. Guilty pleasure is caramel frat or chai frap.
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Post by mimsy on Oct 23, 2017 10:00:41 GMT -6
Whatever BJ's roast we have right now. I think it's Columbia with brown sugar and light cream (I've switched off of heavy cream.
Starbucks in general is a guilty pleasure. I would say a caramel macchiato is my go to. I had a nitrous cold brew this summer and it was friggin awesome.
Adding 3 vanilla scones makes it more of a guilty pleasure.
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Post by pbandj714 on Oct 23, 2017 10:55:25 GMT -6
Homemade caramel macchiato this morning.
My usual at Starbucks is a caramel macchiato (surprise!).
My GP is the double chocolaty chip frap. Mmm.
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Post by charlotte on Oct 23, 2017 11:22:08 GMT -6
I don't think I've ever ordered any food from Starbucks. When I was working an office job I would sometimes only have time to run to the nearby Starbucks at lunch. The different hot paninis/sandwiches are pretty tasty, even though I know they’re just frozen, processed junk. |
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Post by critter015 on Oct 23, 2017 11:22:13 GMT -6
I have my usual Peet's with brown sugar and half & half.
I never liked Starbucks before because everything was too bitter for me. Now I go a couple of times a month. I order a white chocolate mocha or a mocha frapp depending on the weather. Honestly I haven't really tried much else there.
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tj
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Post by tj on Oct 23, 2017 12:28:25 GMT -6
8 more days.....
My usual is a skinny vanilla latte, with almond milk. My splurge is whatever is seqsonal or new or special. Like a coconut milk holiday flat white or that iced cinnamon dolce almond milk macchiato.
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Post by sassyq on Oct 23, 2017 12:43:50 GMT -6
Mmmmm i miss Starbucks. My daily order when i worked there was an Americano. Now if I get to go I usually get a mocha. Java chip frap if it's really hot out. The worst part about having worked there is that I got into a really particular groove with how I liked to make my drinks, and it was just too much to make a barista do for me lol. My mochas were down to a science of half pumps and extra shots and no foam... lol. It will never be the same with someone else making it.
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Post by charlotte on Oct 23, 2017 13:31:45 GMT -6
tj do all Starbucks have almond milk now? I remember a couple of years ago mine only had soy as an alternative milk and I guess I never asked for almond milk again.
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Post by Speedy on Oct 23, 2017 14:16:23 GMT -6
My coffee aversion has started early, so my go to for a while will be hot chocolate. I just can't do tea first thing in the morning for some reason.
I don't normally do starbucks anymore (my BFF detests it), but I used to go get a caramel frap about once a week with a friend when I lived in Florida
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Post by Dramaphile on Oct 23, 2017 14:23:06 GMT -6
tj do all Starbucks have almond milk now? I remember a couple of years ago mine only had soy as an alternative milk and I guess I never asked for almond milk again. I'm pretty sure all Starbucks have almond and coconut milk now. The almond is new as of this year, I think. |
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Post by DGM on Oct 24, 2017 0:00:45 GMT -6
Mmmmm i miss Starbucks. My daily order when i worked there was an Americano. Now if I get to go I usually get a mocha. Java chip frap if it's really hot out. The worst part about having worked there is that I got into a really particular groove with how I liked to make my drinks, and it was just too much to make a barista do for me lol. My mochas were down to a science of half pumps and extra shots and no foam... lol. It will never be the same with someone else making it. I worked there too my first two years of college. Loved it and my sn is a nod to those days. I had an instant mocha cappucino this morning and then Starbucks decaf Sumatra cold brew with French Vanilla creamer this afternoon. If I ordered from SB right now, it'd be the Salted Caramel Mocha Creme Frappucino. My guilty pleasure drink would be a hot vanilla latte made with half and half instead of milk. |
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Post by DGM on Oct 24, 2017 0:02:43 GMT -6
I don't think I've ever ordered any food from Starbucks. Not even a pastry? You must have great self-control because that glass case calls my name! |
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Post by jnu76 on Oct 24, 2017 18:33:35 GMT -6
I’m late to the party. I got a call at work on Monday morning that J barfed at school and I had to go get him. Then was told that they couldn’t find a sub for my classes so I’d have to work something out. Then while I was calling every friend in the building begging them to cover a class during what should’ve been their free period, I was told I was taking too long to get him, even after I tried to explain that I couldn’t leave 30 middle school kids unsupervised and that I would be there within half an hour. So bad mom points and bad teacher points. And my husband was unreachable.
Bless his heart, J didn’t barf in the car on the way home.
I made whatever coffee was in the house but I could’ve used something a lot stronger.
Starbucks order- all the pumpkin spice lattes this time of year.
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