I learned a couple of things while trying to save money, use coupons, and feed my coffee addiction with said coupons.
Tim Horton’s “Latte” is sugar water with some cream and something that sort of tastes like coffee added into it. It’s disgusting.
McDonald’s “Iced Coffee” is literally a cup that is filled up with ice, then hot, weak, and dirty old coffee is poured onto it. And it is digusting.
Ordering coffee can be a big deal. When I asked for a “Medium Latte,” the lady at Starbucks gave me a dirty look followed by a biting correction of “Grande?” Okay, look, I feel bad enough ordering coffee here, please don’t make me say the stupid names on top of it. The latte is okay, but the stigma and my heart is not.
I am looking for a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee coupon to put the final nail in the coffin of cheap fast food coffee drinks, though I do see a lot of blonde girls drinking giant 20 oz iced coffees from there, so it makes me wonder.
I have other notable drink observations I would love to delve into later, like how everywhere you go in NYC there are fancy drink making machines of varying liquids and styles. And my musings of why McDonald’s is pushing their McCafe campaign SO hard. And how I think drinking out of straws is a yummy and sexy replacement to sucking on a cigarette. Stay tuned.