Starbucks' Secret Size

[Abood]

Some of you might know this...

The next time you pass by a Starbucks Coffee shop, go in and follow those instructions:

You: May I have a <whatever drink you want>?
Cashier person: What size would you like that? Tall, Grande, Vinte?
You: Do you have anything smaller?
Cashier person: That&#39;s for kids.
You: What if I have the short?
Cashier person: sure.

Trust me&#33; they all say the same thing&#33; My friends and I tried it.

Do not just order a drink and then ask for the short size, they&#39;ll give you the tall one. Well, that&#39;s what happened to me. But then, luckily, the manager came out and looked at my bill, for some reasoN&#33; Lol&#33; and my friend said : he ordered short. and I said: yeh, i did..
so i got my refund and my cute short coffee :D

My friend also claims that when you order the short coffee, the amount of espresso they put is the same except more concentrated&#33; He&#39;s the one who told me about the secret size and we had to try it out to prove it.

[Livetrueordie]

i don&#39;t get it. do you just get a smaller amount of coffee for a lower price?

[Le Libérer]

I&#39;m not a Starbuck consumer but, they make child size expressos? Who would give their kid expresso? Thats nuts&#33;

So what you are saying is, you get the same concentration of coffee no matter what the size of the cup is?

[which doctor]

Originally posted by Debora [email protected] 17 2006, 11:07 PM
So what you are saying is, you get the same concentration of coffee no matter what the size of the cup is?
Yes. For something to be called an espresso it must have a certain amount of caffeine in it. No matter the size, they all have the same amount of caffeine. So, the smaller size you get, the higher quality your espresso is.

[Atlas Swallowed]

Originally posted by Debora [email protected] 18 2006, 04:07 AM
I&#39;m not a Starbuck consumer but, they make child size expressos? Who would give their kid expresso? Thats nuts&#33;
They get wired enough with just sugar. Next time I baby sit my nephew maybe I will give him some espresso before I drop him off at my sister in laws. Nah, thats just wrong.

[Abood]

I&#39;m not a Starbuck consumer but, they make child size expressos? Who would give their kid expresso? Thats nuts&#33;
That&#39;s the whole point. It&#39;s a lie. What kind of idiot would give his kid coffee?
Maybe there&#39;s a law that says there should be a minimum says of whatever?&#33;
If that size was made public, Starbucks would make great losses.

[TC]

Now you just need to figure out the right phrases to use to get them to add drugs...

[bezdomni]

You have to ask them if your "coffee machine" is "ready" in the "back room". ;)

If anybody found out about this, I might actually go to starbucks.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by Fist of [email protected] 18 2006, 04:41 AM
So, the smaller size you get, the higher quality your espresso is.
You might be referring to a ristretto (sp?)

Anyway, what is wrong with giving kids coffee, I can see the problem in larger amounts, but it isn&#39;t a big thing here, I have seen it is seen that way in America? I might be missing something huge, but I have drank coffee from an early age.

[redcannon]

hah, i went through ten sups of coffee a day when i was fifteen. caffeine is getting me through high school, slowly but surely

[Red October]

why the hell was this necroed?

[Fawkes]

The same thing at movie theaters is done, they hide the smaller sizes.

[fashbash]

lol caffiene is ace, but beware&#33; Should you ever need to stay up all night working, taking an entire pack of 24 pro-plus in ten minutes is not a good idea&#33; Your body will still be knackered but your grey-matter won&#39;t. You want to sleep but you&#39;re buzzin&#39;, and then there&#39;s the hallucinations... It&#39;s like shrooms mixed with E&#39;s. Don&#39;t do it kids&#33; Weed and shrooms though... feel free&#33;

[An archist]

hehe, the first time I had coffee, I stayed up for 36 hours (handy aswell, since we squatted a place that night ;) )

[pandora]

Starbucks... and you support workers rights>?
Here&#39;s a little reality for you...
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/4141/thefutureofcoffeert0.jpg

Coffee interests in Nicaragua:
This is an image of the CEO&#39;s of Starbucks meeting with local women
picking in the coffee fields. The happy woman in front is a mostly white upper class graduate intern in agricultural technology.
The women are through subcontracted haciendas (1000) for wages so low they can not buy milk for their babies,
and must live in shantys made with plywood and black plastic garbage bags.
http://mikebaird.com/nicaragua_photos/nic_photos/housing_poverty_extreme.jpg
They live in these for the time they are employed, because they come down from the mountains for the work and there is little transit, and no health care.

Worst of all they are only employed 3-5 months of the year, but if they get another job they are ineligible if they do not return the next year to work the harvest again.http://www.worldcentric.org/filmseries/images/spring2004/nicaragua.jpg
I asked women about this repeatedly, and they said it was true, if you got another full time job and missed a season, your place was gone, and you would not be hired back. They replied "Si"
Whether you starved or not was no consequence.

[chimx]

Mmm, now I want a Grande Vanilla Soy Chai Latte. Hold the water plz. k thx bye.

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

they sell fair traid stuff, dont they?

[Comrade Marcel]

Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2007 08:02 pm
Starbucks... and you support workers rights>?
Here&#39;s a little reality for you...

Not to mention Starbucks is owned by a fervent Zionist...


they sell fair traid stuff, dont they?

Bwahahaha&#33; :rolleyes:

[bretty]

I heard they sold fair trade stuff too. Same with Second Cup up here in Canada.

Can anyone elaborate on this as a hoax or not? Because even though I avoid big chains besides ones that sell organic, fair trade, etc as much as possible I want to know if i should avoid these places too.

[Folk The System]

Originally posted by [email protected] 08, 2007 09:35 pm
I heard they sold fair trade stuff too. Same with Second Cup up here in Canada.

Can anyone elaborate on this as a hoax or not? Because even though I avoid big chains besides ones that sell organic, fair trade, etc as much as possible I want to know if i should avoid these places too.
they advertise free trade coffee but the only type they sell that is actually free trade is the house blend.

even if every cup of coffee they sold there was free trade you still shouldnt buy it. the biggest reason isnt even political: ITS A TOTAL RIP OFF. most coffee shops (or msot that i&#39;ve been to) sell you a cup of coffee with free refills for less than the cost of the smallest size at starbucks...

*edit i forgot to lol at the irony of a thread that started off about how to buy coffee at starbucks being posted in DIY

[Comrade Marcel]

Originally posted by Folk The System+January 09, 2007 09:54 pm--> (Folk The System @ January 09, 2007 09:54 pm)
[email protected] 08, 2007 09:35 pm
I heard they sold fair trade stuff too. Same with Second Cup up here in Canada.

Can anyone elaborate on this as a hoax or not? Because even though I avoid big chains besides ones that sell organic, fair trade, etc as much as possible I want to know if i should avoid these places too.
they advertise free trade coffee but the only type they sell that is actually free trade is the house blend.

even if every cup of coffee they sold there was free trade you still shouldnt buy it. the biggest reason isnt even political: ITS A TOTAL RIP OFF. most coffee shops (or msot that i&#39;ve been to) sell you a cup of coffee with free refills for less than the cost of the smallest size at starbucks...
[/b]
I agree Starbucks is a rip off, if I am going to buy expsensive cups of coffee I would rather go to a petty-bourgeois place where I can get something really good. Every once and awhile my wife and I treat ourselves to a cup of &#036;4.00 latte at a shop down the street...

But I think getting your cup refilled is just a U&#036; thing; here in Kanada it&#39;s virtually unheard of except for when we see it happen in ameriKan movies, TV shows and such.

This happened to me when I was in Toledo and I didn&#39;t understand why the waiter refilled it at first, then I remembered and the comrades there explained that it was common.