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Caramel ribbon crunch vs caramel frap10/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They don’t taste very good mixed into the beverage, and your only other option is to navigate little glops of it through the hole in the dome lid, balanced on the end of your straw. It’s all chocolaty and delicious, and then suddenly all these little bits get stuck in your straw, and, as my husband noted, “There’s something kind of unsettling about having to chew your dairy beverage.” At this point, we also began to wonder what the whipped toppings were about. Java Chip starts out tasting really good. Liz, our resident non-coffee drinker, just shuddered when she took a sip, and my husband noted that all the Frappuccinos were starting to taste the same and that Starbucks might just be playing a huge joke on America. In fact, at this point, we all had drunk enough Frappuccinos to start seriously regretting our life choices, so no one was really hyped about it. Vanilla is so low on the list because there was a sort of non-taste to it. Liz, who never drinks coffee, said - and I quote her on this - “Oh, my God. Great if you love espresso, but less great if you’re just looking for a treat. It suffers from the opposite problem of the White Chocolate Mocha instead of being too sweet, it is kind of bitter. ![]() I was completely outnumbered, though, so it’s near the bottom of the list. This was actually my favorite and great if you don’t like sweet things, like me. My husband said it was “exactly what I imagine drinking straight half-and-half would taste like,” while Liz noted that it was “creamy, but in, like, the worst possible way.” 8. It was extremely sweet and left a really weird aftertaste in everyone’s mouth. This was by far everyone’s least favorite drink. Then, when we got home, we realized we forgot the Caramel Ribbon Crunch, so that’s missing, but here are the rest, in ascending order: Then my husband insisted we get the Oprah Chai Tea Latte Blended Creme, because Oprah. Here are a few things I have to note: We only ordered the Frappuccinos on the current menu, because I figured that Blended Cremes, the non-caffeinated offerings, didn’t count. Here’s some actual footage of us deciding to do this: So an idea was born - let’s go to Starbucks, order all the Frappuccinos and rank them in order of least favorite to most favorite. ![]() In fact, I had two fellow novices in my home with me: my husband, Marc, and my best friend, Liz. Where’s the beginner’s guide to Frappuccinos? Surely, I thought, there must be others like me who have never had one either. I practically live there, and there’s a room in the back just for me, with an intravenous station so I can feed espresso straight into my neck.īut with all the Frappuccino news of late, I decided to take the plunge and finally order a frosty coffee drink of my own to see what all the fuss is about. I mean, sure, I’ve taken a sip off a friend’s as a chaser for bad vodka or to take a dose of enormous antibiotics, but I had never ordered a Frappuccino for the sole purpose of drinking it. I have a confession to make: Before writing this article, I never had a Starbucks Frappuccino in any meaningful way. ![]()
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