Starbucks Frappucinos

[radical347]

What is your favorite menu Frappucino? I think I got all the ones that have been listed at some time or other in the past few years. The Tazo/Tiazzi & Creme are included in the plain Tazo/Tiazzi ones because I was about to run out of space.

My favorite by a hair is the Peaches & Creme Tiazzi from many years back. I'm so mad they got rid of that and my next favorite, the Raspberry Mocha Chip Frappucino. The Chocolate Brownie Frappucino with Raspberry syrup just wasn't the same.

Don't even think about putting a write-in for any Frappucino Light.

[blahblahblah]

Okay, I've never seen most of these before on the menu, never mind trying them. So, I'll go with Green Tea, representing my Asian-ness. It was either that or Java Chip.

You forgot Maple Frappucino. I had it a couple weeks ago, it was good.

[czarina]

Write in for mocha malt

[Mega248]

I voted for vanilla bean frppucino, one of the single best things my taste buds have ever encountered.

[radical347]

Yeah, that's right. I remember hearing that they introduced Maple in Canada in the northeast, totally forgot about that. Everywhere else doesn't have it yet...

Most of them were seasonal, but since many of them the only thing they added was syrup, they can still make them (i.e. Toffee Nut). Sadly, they can't make either of the fruit mocha chips, the mint mocha chip once the mint syrup runs out, any of the Tiazzi/Tazoberrys, or the Coconut ones.

[jcmf3]

blahblahblah said:

Okay, I've never seen most of these before on the menu, never mind trying them.

Same here.

I voted for the Double Chocolate Chip, wih the Vanilla Bean coming in a very close second.

[czarina]

I had a bad experience with frapps today.
I ordered a grande mocha frapp and when they called my name I went up and it was a caramel frap. Very easy to tell the difference-one, the mocha has no syrup and this had caramel syrup on top. Secondly, the actual drink is very differently colored. I mentioned that I had ordered a mocha apologetically. The woman that handed me my drink looked at me like I was a moron and was like "Uhm, no. Actually that is a mocha" and rolls her eyes. I just stand there for a second kind of shocked. Then the guy who made the drink looks over and is like oh! I completely made your drink wrong! Im so sorry! and he remade it with a smile. (Very friendly man and I wish somehow I could have tipped him alone) The girl just stormed off without even a sorry or a smile. We saw her when we walked out and she was smoking and bitching on her cell phone about how she hates work.
Sorry, work sucks, but even I know the difference between a mocha and caramel and I dont think you need to be rude to everyone just because you hate your work. You werent even the one MAKING the drinks so it would have been no more work on your part to hand the drink back and have them make me the drink I clearly ordered.

[radical347]

Report her to 1-800-Starbuc.

[crash46]

I get mad whenever I order a frappucino and there's all these small ice cubes that sink to the bottom and always clog up your straw. It doesn't happen every time, but often enough to have me wondering why it can't be prevented, for as much as those things cost. A few extra seconds in the blender, or to keep the blender blades sharp, or whatever causes that, I don't know what causes it but it doesn't seem like it'd take that much extra effort to have it come out smooth every time.

[blahblahblah]

crash46 said:

I get mad whenever I order a frappucino and there's all these small ice cubes that sink to the bottom and always clog up your straw. It doesn't happen every time, but often enough to have me wondering why it can't be prevented, for as much as those things cost. A few extra seconds in the blender, or to keep the blender blades sharp, or whatever causes that, I don't know what causes it but it doesn't seem like it'd take that much extra effort to have it come out smooth every time.

Heh, I know what you mean. As well, sometimes when I get the Java Chip, I get chocolate chips clogged in the straws. That's just as annoying.

[radical347]

It's probably the ice machine's fault. Ours has been acting up ever since I started working. It doesn't spit out ice cubes... it spits out ice blocks which are made up of about 60 ice cubes that are stuck together and try as we may to bash them, they don't always come apart correctly, and there's still a few that stick in the blender even when putting it though 6 times. We got it fixed twice and each time within a week it went back to making horrible ice.

BTW... They have Creme Brule Frappucinos/Lattes in Hawaii and Japan now and coming next summer is Banana Frappucinos.

[gpduke]

OMG none.

Way to expensive for a DRINK. I eat dinner with the money some people spend on a cup of coffee.

[crash46]

It isn't a DRINK though. It's a way of life.

They have orange creme frappuccinos now. But Rally's already has orange creme shakes for 69 cents on Wednesdays. I wonder if they can pull a few strings and make that into the orange mocha chip frappuccino that I've never seen but is part of the poll, which might actually be good.

[gpduke]

Once when I ordered one it was just a drink.

[blahblahblah]

crash46 said:

They have orange creme frappuccinos now. But Rally's already has orange creme shakes for 69 cents on Wednesdays. I wonder if they can pull a few strings and make that into the orange mocha chip frappuccino that I've never seen but is part of the poll, which might actually be good.

Well before they've had Valencia syrup which tasted pretty similar to orange. The thing with the orange syrup is that it's really sweet. So, I'd suggest a grande 2 pump Orange Java Chip Frappucino for something like you've mentioned.

I wish they haven't discontinued the Banana Frappucinos, I've had a Banana Java Chip Frappucino when I was in Cancun and it was goooood.

[Mega248]

Has anyone tried their new blueberries and cream frappucinos? I had one the other day and I think it may be my new favorite.

[czarina]

Oh jeeze, that stuff is like crack. I wish I had never even tried it.

[crash46]

Okay, they do have the orange mocha frap's now, which I tried and enjoyed very much. There weren't any chips involved in the making of it, though. I was going to ask about that, until I noticed that the extra ingredient would've pushed the total above five dollars, which defies principle.