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Starbucks Coffee - Frappuccino Coffee Drink
Starbucks has obviously become a mega sensation for all coffee drinkers across America. Starbucks has nailed the mass marketing, advertisement, and franchise strategies that have made the name-brand a part of many coffee drinkers every day vocabulary.
Every visit to a Starbucks coffee shop that I make always ends in a very happy or gnashing your teeth experience. Unlike a McDonalds, Starbucks does not have a track record for consistency in their precise preparations of 'my' drink order with every visit. For example, Friday's visit was the perfect mix of ice, sugar free vanilla, 2% milk, and three splenda's that resulted in the most immaculate creation, also known as 'my iced coffee'; but Saturdays order was completely botched with not enough 2% milk, melted ice, burnt tasting coffee, maybe one splenda, and no vanilla. After several visits of my feelings becoming hot and cold to Starbucks coffee, I decided to try an alternative to the coffee shop.
I was at Target and decided to try a Starbucks bottled Mocha Frappuccino Coffee Drink. I was in a bright mood that day, had some wishful thinking with my shopping, and decided just to go ahead and get the carton of four. I got home, filled my class with ice, and started drinking the most well prepared mocha frappuccino coffee drink that I have ever tasted in my life (I am a coffee addict and drink about 10 cups of coffee a day on average). This Starbucks 9.5 fl oz. bottled Mocha Frappuccino was perfectly created and consistent through out those four bottles, and every bottle I have had since.
It does have 180 calories. Those annoying little suckers can be worked off, along with your dinner, with only 20-30 minutes on the treadmill (which you should be doing that anyways). In reality those calories are measly nothings compared to the 1000+ calorie drinks that you order through the Starbucks drive through.
If you buy them by the carton it is about 4 bucks. Every sip is well work each penny; especially when Starbucks Coffee shops charges 4 bucks for just one drink.
The bottle advertises the drink as a low fat creamy blend of Starbucks Coffee and milk. Honestly, I would still drink it if it said it had five week old milk in it. It really is that spectacular!
Go enjoy, you finger pushing happy brewers out there.