If you were given a coupon for one free drink at Starbucks, what would you order?
If your answer is, “The most expensive thing they could possibly make,” then you’ve got a friend in blogger Logan A. Warren.
Mr. Warren, who writes for Coffee and Computers, walked into a Texas Starbucks armed with a Starbucks reward card, and – with the help of an accommodating barista – ordered a drink worth US$23.60.
The drink, poured into the company’s “Trenta” 916-ml cup, was a Java Chip Frappuccino.
But that’s not why it was so expensive. Add-ons included:
- 16 shots of espresso
- one shot of soy milk
- caramel flavouring
- banana and strawberry puree
- vanilla beans
- Matcha powder
- protein powder
- caramel drizzle
- mocha drizzle
According to his blog post, Mr. Warren figures the drink contained 1,400 mg of caffeine. (To give you some perspective, Health Canada says people shouldn’t consume more than 400 mg of caffeine a day.)
He writes that the drink is, “Tolerable, but not good. Imagine a coffee-based health food smoothie that will put you in the hospital if you drink it all.”