No bagel for you for one year. (Paraphrasing Seinfeld)
Frankly, IMHO Starbucks is overrated and overpriced. She’s better off buying bagels at the supermarket and making them up at home the way she likes.
3 officers to take care of a non-violent problem at a Starbucks?
Wow.
"Linguistically, it's stupid, and I'm a stickler for correct English," she said.
Sounds like a real charmer...
Democrat.
I like Starbucks coffee but I refuse to use their language. I always say a “medium half decaf and half regular, no cream”. Never been thrown out. There’s more to the story.
Geez, I’d think if it was that important to her and they wouldn’t play along, she’d take her bagel dollars elsewhere voluntarily without having to call in the cops.
She clearly has had no contact with the Latte language.
Ah, the problems that occur in the big city and the suburbs. No Starbucks in this small SE NM town. No Denny’s either. However we have an overabundance of Mexican breakfast burrito joints where English is the second language. Green or red hot sauce with those beans, Senor?
Apparently the police will enforce Starbucks terminology, but requiring English language skills in place of oh, say Spanish, is a no-no. Now, repeat after me: it is tall, grande, and venti...never mind enforcing the border, get the sizes right! ;-/
Shoulda tazed the b***h.
I never use their words for things, and I notice they always repeat my order in their language. One of them tried to prompt me to use the right language, and I told him, “you work here, you have to call it that. I don’t. I get to call it anything I want.”
He laughed. He didn’t call the cops, which apparently was lucky for me.
The real question here is...why would an honest to goodness New Yawkah buy a foo-foo bagel from Starbucks when the real deal can be found on just about every corner?
I bet she’s a visiting prof from Berzerkly or something! ;-)
Has Obama weighed in yet? Who acted stupidly to him this time?
Moral: Don’t go into a Starbucks and mention “Bagel”. The forces of law and order will be on you right quick.
I have to admit I see her point. She says she ordered a “plain bagel.” That’s plain English. Why should she have to answer the question of does that mean you want cheese or butter on it? Plain means plain. Anyone who can speak English would understand.
I suspect that Starbucks had several illegals working there who had no idea what she was talking about. If they would hire English speakers, problems like this wouldn’t come up. Maybe that’s the point she was trying to make.
What was she doing getting a bagel at Starbucks anyway? She was at 86th and Columbus, a stone’s throw from Zabar’s.
Starbucks bagels are bread in the shape of a bagel, and their croissants are bread in the shape of a croissant. But all the Starbuces are nice and don’t mind if you bring in food from outside.
Our Dear Professor clearly wasn’t creative enough to say “I prefer neither cheese nor butter.”
Then she would have offended neither the Barista nor the English language.
Maybe calling the cops was the right move. People who are this narrowly self-obsessed should be locked up.