Starbucks targeted over high-fat products (no banana mocha Frapp, no banana cream crunch bar)

REUTERS ^ | Fri Jun 16, 2006

[Liz]

I wanted to buy something at Starbuck's........so I got the Choccolate Mocha Frappachino, with an espresso shot and whipped cream.

Mmmmmmmm....e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t choice.

Careful, you can get addicted to those things.....then you'll be cursing out FR.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"They are offered unlimited beverages and leftover pastries for free during their shifts."

That's the only way they could entice me to work there, LOL!

Hey, Gabz? Remember when I worked for Seed Savers and got discounted seeds and plants as a perk? Wonder why the Nanny Staters didn't come after us due to all that melted butter we put on our discount-grown Sweet Corn or Green Beans each summer? LOL!

That said, make your own coffee drinks at home:

Leftover coffee from your "morning fix"
Vanilla Ice Cream
Chocolate Syrup

Blend.

Top with whipped cream and sprinkles if you DARE. Hide in the closet or basement or under your bed while you drink it, lest the Nanny Staters find ya, LOL!

SIL & I indulged in a "MooooLatte" at Dairy Queen yesterday. It was out of this world...but don't tell the TCSPI-Gnatzies! ;)

[MarkL]

Careful, you can get addicted to those things.....then you'll be cursing out FR.

Over the frappachinos? No, I would never curse out FR over that... I'm simply too cheap to pay $5.00+ for a coffee drink! And like I said, I can get something quite similar and larger at Quik Trip for about $1. But I try to avoid coffee anyway...

On the other hand, I DO curse out FR on a regular basis, for a lack of sleep, and finding that I need to log-on first thing every morning, and before I go to bed every night, and I eat my lunch at my desk at work every day, checking out what's happeneing on FR...

Mark

[MarkL]

SIL & I indulged in a "MooooLatte" at Dairy Queen yesterday. It was out of this world...but don't tell the TCSPI-Gnatzies! ;)

I had forgotten about Moooolattes! While I've never had one, I saw a commercial for DQ and them once, and it was hillarious!

Mark

[Diana in Wisconsin]

DQ does have cute commercials. The one we visited yesterday was an "Oldie But Goodie" in small-town, Wisconsin. :)

[spectre]

Interesting.

I'm looking at Starbucks abit differently after this thread :)

sw

[Liz]

Burker King put out this enormous breakfast sandwich.

MEATNORMOUS OMELET has sausage and bacon, cheese and eggs.

[Liz]

You, and about 100,000 other FReepers.

[MarkL]

I actually tried that "Meatnormous" breakfast sandwich once, and I really didn't care for it... As breakfast fare goes, I've never cared for Burger King. I've never liked their sausage. My favorites are McDonalds and Hardees, although Sonic is also pretty good. I like Hardees sausage the best, then McDonalds, followed by Sonic, and as I said, I just never cared for the sausage at BK.

Mark

[Still Thinking]

Probably bottle fed.

[Liz]

Thanks for the review-----maybe they don't even offer it anymore?

[Taxman]

ROFOL!

NOT ON YOUR LIFE! ABNER! NEITHER STARBUCKS, NOR POPULAR CULTURE! NO! NO! NEVER!

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

ROFOL!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

AUGHHH!

NO....Say it isn't so!!!!

[Liz]

Gosh, sorry you took it so hard..... I had to be the one to deliver the "bad news." LOL.

[CSM]

Thanks for the ping, hope you had a great weekend.

I just love it when they start eating their own. I wouldn't step foot in a Starbucks and I suspect most conservatives won't. It is a matter of principle. The amount of money they give to the loony causes is enough for me to take that stance.

Now, their contributions are coming back to bite them in the......well, anyway, they celebrate loony left causes, they get to be the victims of their own support.