Besides being the stupid shit I've ever heard (ie/ marking a shot of olive oil in your fast food coffee as Healthy)

Oh my god, I had forgotten that

it turns out for many people, combining COFFEE, DAIRY and a BIG HELPING OF RAW OIL

unsurprisingly is giving people Poop Problems and I'm like just like LORD WHAT DID YOU EXPECT

Oh my GOD???

theres PRECEDENT for a splish of EVOO in espresso....but like. for TASTE, not health, and once again reminding the world

I remember reading about that and then I apparently immediately memory holed it because who even thought this would be a good idea

Trained, skilled baristas with the time to properly make a drink =/= fast food chain coffee

dips a crusty bread in my starbucks waiting for my meal

SaroSaron: this feels like the evolution of when everyone was into "bullet proof" coffee a few years back which was the same idea but Coconut oil and butter

oh no

tbh I kind of suspect a certain brand of terrifying cleanse person thinks the immediate gastric nightmare this has to give you is the health part

begging people to just put cream in your coffee

shambolism: 100%

EVOO and caffeine is

legit "potion of shit yourself"

"The New Yorker wrote that it “tasted like a large spoonful of olive oil in coffee,” coating the author’s mouth with a “slick, oleaginous sediment.” Grub Street found that the hot latte “tastes like the smell of toast,” also taking note of an “odd film that lingers on one’s tongue after the drink is gone.” "

Oh No .

The butter coffee thing seemed odd to me but yeah olive oil coffee is.... worse in this way...... guys. GUYS.

I'm so fascinated by this

it has to be like. some weird business investment where they're looking for ways to boost the olive oil business, right?

I'll try a lot of weird coffee drinks but this one doesn't even sound intriguing

yeah its baffling. I'm sure they're desperately trying to manufacture their own coffee trend (replicating the huge success of say, matcha in chain coffee shops) by combining two things that are highly.popular and trendy but it

feels like it's not very appealing to most people.

Oh my god

i kinda feel like it's key jingling to distract from all of the union stuff, but it's also like... this is apparently a real thing, but i imagine it's like you're supposed to actually do something to emulsify the oil and not just like. syrup it in

yeah...all accounts seem to be that the only one that's half way good is the one when they froth the oil into the foam

topping a latte with EVOO like its caramel sauce, on the other hand....

i mean... gestures at the macchiato

dont get me started on the Starbucks idea of a ""macchiato""

i do love caramel macchiatos but that's not what a macchiato is and it's sucks being a barista having to deal with customers who want an actual macchiato

like please, i'm the coffee equivalent of a fast food worker, i beg of you

LMAO

I have the opposite problem, anytime someone orders a macchiato (despite it clearly saying 4oz) of having to physically show the cup to people like THIS IS WHAT IT IS, ARE YOU SURE

a starbucks macchiato is really just a flavored latte

starbucks somehow inexplicably making the food service experience worse for everyone across the spectrum

(and often they are still like....wait what's this)

cuddlebug: it's literally just a caramel latte

i'm in tears because i'm just like it's not, i'm so sorry, it's not just a caramel latte

in a grande it's 2 pumps vanilla (one pump less flavor than standard), milk, esspresso shot and then you top that with caramel sauce, which is different from the caramel syrup used in caramel lattes

the caramel sauce is drizzled in a criscross pattern finished with a circle

I mean, that's a caramel latte everywhere else is what I mean

no i know

i know

but like i did this for almost five years and i just

it haunts me

sam i'm haunted

a starbucks macchiato is not a starbucks latte but

a starbucks macchiato is what the rest of the planet calls a latte

starbucks really ruined people....specifically by allowing people to get weirdly entitled about like highly specific process by which their drink is made while making the people working there miserable

sometimes a customer would ask us to stir it and it was just like "okay :,)"

(it's also way too sweet for me but yeah they are confusing customers and making things difficult for everyone)

LMAO

WHEN PEOPLE.IMMEDIATELY STIR THE ICED MACCHIATO IM LIKE HONEY

like i loved it, but it was also literal hell

My personal pet peeve is the "iced cappuccino"

we often accept and just "pretend" to make the SB macchiato for people

i had someone ask for that and when i was like "lol what" too many times, they went and tattled on me to a manager

I refuse to pretend to make an iced cappuccino and i do tell customers that it's not real

it can not be real

and if it is like, just get a regular cappuccino and then let it sit for half and hour, it's the same experience

"I can make you a stronger iced latte if you want but there Will Be No Foam"

when i first started, i had a coworker make one that was a regular latte and then they topped it with foam like it was whipcream because none of us could figure out what else to do

we do have a hand frother for making cold foam for like, alcoholic drinks but I refuse to do it, ita a waste of time and not on our menu so

i was also a barnes and noble cafe employee, which is like being a starbucks employee, but inexplicably worse. because i'm not a starbucks employee and none of the customers know that

good

Oh yeah, a BN was my first barista job, its infinitely dumber than any other place

hi5, did y'all have the milk bucket

NO WE DID NOT

would an iced cappuccino....... hmm....... i mean what's the foam that they put on cold brew? that's the only thing i could think to do lol

we did for like three months, because i was part of a new store that opened and then too many people forgot about the milk bucket at closing, so they let us stop

cuddlebug as near as i can tell, you steam milk for a cappuccino and then you add that to a cup with esspresso and ice

cuddlebug: YEAH LIKE there are technically....ways to do it. but I would argue some drink are just

supposed to be hot

it has the energy of ordering a cold hot chocolate

like, yeah, you can make that, but it being hot is a PART of the drink and you've made soemthing else entirely at that point

yeah it's frothed by the steam so it's... hot...... it's not foam it's milk froth..... i'm not even a Coffee Person I'M NOT LIV but... come on.

yeah like,THAT TOO

milk foam(cold) is not the same as steamed milk

the customer that got mad at me was like "I know what I want" and i was like DO YOU

steam with heat chemically changes the milk, it breaks down the sugars and makes it sweeter and smoother

this was in like 2016, before cold brew cold foam

please I need to know about this milk bucket? what a scary phrase

honestly I wanna gag just thinking about this