r/mildyinteresting • u/Malum_Incarnatum • Aug 24 '26
humankind hiccups đ Accidentally asked for no matcha in my matcha Frappuccino
Thank you, kind barista for saving me from ruining my own morning with a cup of oat milk slush (it tastes exactly like what you would expect)
Update: I called the Starbucks to say thank you for not giving me an oat milk slushy and they were very kind. They are aware of the delivery app glitches and figured that was the issue for my order. If you modify your food in delivery apps, double check everything before you place the order! Or you might end up with a bag full of disappointment.
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u/BridgestoneX Aug 24 '26
this is so kind
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u/Dingoz Aug 24 '26
This is a barista who didn't wanna deal with this shit later.
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u/StrobeLightRomance Aug 24 '26
Both things can be simultaneously true.
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u/Aware_Result_5361 Aug 24 '26
Something something DBT skills
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u/currently_pooping_rn Aug 25 '26
Seeing DBT in the wild? Thatâs some wise mind shit fr
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u/prince_falafel Aug 24 '26
No youre wrong everyone is as jaded, pessimistic, and miserable as your average redditor! Nobody ever does anything just to be kind, they're always doing it solely for themselves!
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u/DinoRoman Aug 24 '26
I just wanna know what they made the no matcha matcha Frappuccino with lol
Air? Water blended with ice ? The last few drops of hope the barista had? ( that one sounds tasty but Iâd feel bad asking for that every time ya know )
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u/SweetPumpkin22 Aug 24 '26
Ex Starbucks worker of 3 yrs here , the actual base for the fraps is the milk + ice + the base we use ! Matcha at starbs is a very fine powder so we just scoop tiny little matcha spoons and put it in and blend. A frap without any flavoring is just whatever milk + ice + the blending base âŚbasically a milk slushie
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u/DinoRoman Aug 24 '26
I worked at Starbucks too! Coffee master till 2014.
I figured as much but who would want that lol. Base milk and iceâŚ. I dunno
Donât tell anyone but I was throwing cookies and brownies into my own drinks and making chocolate whipped cream everyday.!
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u/SweetPumpkin22 Aug 24 '26
No way me too ! Also a coffee master and I quit last year :p the creations me and my friends made at work were definitelyâŚinteresting. Ever had a birthday cake pop frap? Sooo good
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u/x_samsquantch_x Aug 25 '26
I worked at Starbucks in the early 2000âs when they decided to discontinue coffee master as a program. Never got that black apron. I probably worked there for 8 years.Â
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u/S0meone_on_reddit Aug 24 '26
Whats the blending base?
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u/SweetPumpkin22 Aug 24 '26
It's like a xyantham gum thick, clear (coffee flavored for the coffee fraps and unflavored for non cafinated fraps) sryup that makes the frap their consistency which is kinda between a milkshake and a smoothie . W/o base they are extremely chunky with ice and don't blend properly
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u/grudginglyadmitted Aug 28 '26
If anyoneâs curious about the science, the xanthan gum is a thickener, which makes your drink feel more luxurious/substantial, and it keeps emulsions (like salad dressings or smoothies) stable longer. IIRC it isnât technically an emulsifier itself, but it is a super effective stabilizer to the point is kind of functionally an emulsifier.
IMO one of the coolest things about it is it also results in a non-newtonian fluid, but a shear thinning substance, not a shear thickening substance like oobleck. This means that at rest it is more viscous, but when shear forces (like stirring or pouring or shaking) are applied it becomes less viscous. It literally becomes thinner while itâs being poured or stirred or sucked up a straw (making all of these actions easier), while at rest it is thicker and has a stronger network to keep components from separating.
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u/Infected1313 Aug 25 '26
I once got 100 dollar tip on a pizza delivery cus I stuck around calling the guy for like 15 minutes. He thought I was being kind. I just hated going to his apartment complex cus it was in a weird spot and I didn't want to go back later.
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u/pixienightingale Aug 25 '26
That was a barista who had a similar request happen and got reamed for it.
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u/BridgestoneX Aug 24 '26
it's just so easy to click the wrong box or button when placing the online order, especially if it's BEFORE one has had any coffee lol
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u/LectroRoot Aug 25 '26
I ordered breakfast with DoorDash one morning and forgot to change the delivery address from work back to my home address and sent my breakfast to the office. I was off that day and was treating myself because I wanted to be lazy and not cook breakfast. By the time I realized my mistake it was too late to try and fix it. So it was left outside the building
I jumped into MS Teams and let my co-workers know what I did and told them its up for grabs if anyone wanted it, but the lobby was locked for the building because it was very early in the morning so the dasher left it outside the door and someone stole it before any of them could claim it.
After that I'm hyper vigilant about double checking my food/amazon orders from top to bottom before hitting submit. Double check my order, where its going, and what payment method.
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u/trashedvoid Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
starbucks baristas are always so extremely nice in my experience. iâve had at least 4 give me free coffee. one of the times my card declined and i went to go unlock it and they were like âitâs okay itâs on me!â and i was so caught off guard because there was no one behind me and it wasnât going to take long. he then made me a venti of the drink i asked for (a grande) and told me to have a good day. this is after i told him i hadnât been in a while and had a nice talk with him. i just always feel like theyâre so kind whenever we talk. like that dude just seemed happy to recommend stuff and so nice and energetic i was like holy shit. he even was excited for me to try it. good customer service fr !! this reminded me of that
edit: i wanted to tell another sweet story
this is about a bakery i was going to pick up a doordash order for. i was talking to the guy and then asked how much one of the donuts were. they were surprisingly inexpensive for how good they looked so i was definitely gonna buy one. i tell him what i want and i told him i was so excited because its my first time being here. he smiles and says i can take it for free and that he hopes i like it. then he threw in an extra donut for the customer. i was like wtf fr?? and i asked if i could tip him or something and he said no đ so this reminds me i need to go back again soon to buy some stuff and hopefully convince him to take my tip this time
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u/DeathBeforeDecaf4077 Aug 24 '26
As a servant of the siren, this is the way. I once had someone order through delivery an iced matcha latte no ice, no classic, no matcha, aka a cup of milk lol.
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u/Blashtik Aug 25 '26
It's so easy to miss that the checkboxes are for "No X" and think that you are adding X. I've definitely made that mistake before and what was going through my mind is that the app was bugging out and defaulting everything to unchecked rather than checked.
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u/pinkenbrawn Aug 25 '26
i didnât understand what âthe servant of the sirenâ meant, googled, got even more confused, and then remembered⌠oh, the logo. of course⌠i still have it my mind as some lady with her legs up
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u/Key_Beach_3846 Aug 27 '26
Plot twist, thatâs basically what it is. The original logo is a âsirenâ bussin it wide open:
https://www.logomaker.com/blog/starbucks-logo-history-and-evolution-of-strabucks-original-logo/
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u/Kelef50 Aug 24 '26
Reminded me of a scene from the movie Five Easy Pieces. Jack Nicholson's character orders a side of toast. The waitress informs him that it is not on the menu. So he orders a chicken salad sandwich and asks her to hold the butter, lettuce, mayonnaise, and the chicken.
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u/Timely_Spinach_7479 Aug 24 '26
I canât remember what show or movie itâs from but the guy ordered lemons, water, and sugar and the waitress said âdonât you just want to order a lemonade?â And the guy said âgive your free water, your free lemons, and Iâll use the free sugar.â
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u/thecravenone Aug 24 '26
I had a regular who was already getting a 50% discount (firefighter) who would touch every single lemon on the self-service drink station picking out lemons to make his free lemonade. Then we'd throw away the entire bin of lemons and I'd bring him actual lemonade on refills.
Eventually the manager told us to put the lemons away when we saw this guy coming and just give him a lemonade, which actually cost us less money.
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u/Prudent-Bear1592 Aug 25 '26
Aaand a certain percentage of people get to be complete pieces of shit even if its a minor and petty thing because our society just kinda doesn't allow anyone to be held accountable for anything anymore. Easier to move on with your day. Except shit is systematically failing because its not just one or two random weirdos but 90% of people breaking basic decency and society cant support the vast majority of people being pieces of shit.
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u/acidtrippinpanda Aug 26 '26
Sorry but the idea of raising the alarm when this specific person comes in and then scrambling to hide the lemons is just taking me tf out đ
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u/thecravenone Aug 26 '26
It was usually a slow time and the person nearest the door (me) was also the person nearest the lemons. So it would've been oh the fire fighters are here, lemme just take this off the counter.
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u/NegativeAccount Aug 24 '26
Can i have hot water, extra extra lemons and honey. Oh and you'll have to refill my hot water every 5 minutes
Cheap fuckers.
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u/AlmostLucy Aug 25 '26
New York eccentric Joe Gould was known for ordering a cup of hot water at diners and pouring ketchup into it, stirring it up to make âtomato soup.â
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u/YuenglingsDingaling Aug 24 '26
His crash out at the end of that scene was absolutely justified lol. What kinda dinner doesnt serve fuckin toast?
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u/a014e593c01d4 Aug 24 '26
one made up for a movie
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u/JeSuisUnAnanasYo Aug 24 '26
That entire movie is just one scene after another about how ~horrible all women are
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u/PacificCastaway Aug 24 '26
False. I've worked at a place where paying dinner customers were flabbergasted that I couldn't put in an order for rolls and butter even though we used the rolls for sliders and had butter that was served with items from the breakfast menu (that did sell toast!).
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u/sniper-no_sniping Aug 25 '26
I was once out to eat with a friend who ordered a Long Island with no sour mix and no soda. It took the waitress a moment to realize he wanted only liquor in the cup 𤣠to this day I can see her face upon realizing lol
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u/Kedly Aug 24 '26
After working next to a kitchen, you're likely to be paying for the whole chicken salad sandwich in that scenario
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u/huggablekoi Aug 24 '26
Customer: âI want a latte with no espressoâ
Me, barista: âthat would be steamed milk. Do you want just steamed milk or are you looking for a cafe Au lait, which is streamed milk and drip coffee? Or I can make a latte decaf if youâre avoiding caffeineâ
C: âno just a latte with no espresso in itâ
I make them a cup of steamed milk
C: âthis isnât a latteâ
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u/shanec628 Aug 24 '26
Customers: can I get an iced latte, dark ?
Me: so, do you want to add an extra shot of espresso?
Customer: no, you know how some people want their coffee dark, thatâs how I want my iced latte.
Me: ok, so I could either add an extra shot of espresso or not fill the cup all the way with milk and it would be darker.
Her: just do whatever you think, I donât know what Iâm ordering so I really canât even be mad.
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u/Spare-Half796 Aug 24 '26
I had to explain that a caramel latte has caramel, which is made of sugar, in it when someone asked why her caramel latte was sweet
But the weirdest Iâve encountered was someone asking for warm cold brew. We thought maybe no ice but no they wanted it heated. I was just bringing pastries out so I walked away and donât know what happened next but I think they actually warmed the cold brew
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u/Blashtik Aug 25 '26
That's not actually that strange. Brewing a coffee cold doesn't mean it has to be served cold, just like brewing a coffee hot doesn't mean it has to be served hot. Cold brewing extracts compounds from the coffee at different ratios than hot brewing, so it will taste different.
I'm pretty sure I remember even seeing people discuss about using a steam wand to heat up their cold brew.
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u/Spare-Half796 Aug 25 '26
Thatâs probably how they heated it. I think the most likely case is that they just wanted something like filter coffee but we only pulled shots and they didnât know what an Americano
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u/Fit-Avocado-1646 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
I meanâŚ. roast level on the beans used no? Dark roast vs lighter roasted beans.
Do you not have options on your beans?
I think starbucks has dark, and blonde roasts on their beans.
Ive seen a lot of shops that have options. Dark roasts, medium roast and blonde.
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u/Fivefinger_Delta Aug 24 '26
I once asked for a latte and got given frothy milk because I didn't ask for a cafe latte. It was a small Italian place though and they may have tried to clarify but I don't speak Italian so just nodded and smiled.
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u/BearishTank Aug 26 '26
I had a misunderstanding with a barista, when I asked for a âmacchiato with oat milkâ she misunderstood my accent as I was asking for a âmacchiato without milkâ (weâre in Ireland).
I could tell her face wanted to scream at me âthatâs just an espresso you idiotâ but she really went nicely âa macchiato but with no milk?â
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u/ThereInAFortnight Aug 24 '26
None of this makes any sense to me.
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u/jkjwysa Aug 24 '26
They accidentally ordered a frapp without matcha, but since matcha is the only ingredient that would have literally been milk.
Kind barista made it both ways just in case to save OP the terrible day
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u/Ngothaaa Aug 24 '26
So they got two drinks for the price of one? Or did the barista make both ways in the same cup?
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u/ElishaAlison Aug 24 '26
There is no both ways. One is matcha and the other is just milk
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u/fizzyizzy114 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
no. one is a milk frappe . I used to make them all the time for my break when I worked at starbucks.. sometimes with chai in but usually without. it would be just a creamy ice slush but since matcha frappe has vanilla in it would be nicely sweet.
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u/Elahgee Aug 24 '26
You just took me back to 2003, drinking home made milk frappe with vanilla syrup with my ex girlfriend to keep cool in the Aussie summer. Thanks for the memory blast!
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u/Durzaka Aug 24 '26
Holy how long ago was this
Matcha Frappuccino hasnt had vanilla in it for at least 13 years, maybe longer.
It is made with just si ple sugar sweetener though.
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u/fizzyizzy114 Aug 25 '26
Ah i might be misremembering but at UK Starbucks 2023-24 i swear the recipe had a couple pumps of vanilla in it. Though as it was my own drink I would go ham pretty much and experiment... my fav was strawberries and cream with the dried strawberries from the acai berry cooler + strawberry sauce from rasperry ripple frappe (on the inside of the cup not in the blender)... wonder if they'd make that for me if I ever asked
can't stand the coffee now though the smell makes me sick haha
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u/Durzaka Aug 25 '26
Ah UK is fair though. Different countries have different standards for some stuff, for some ungodly reason.
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u/thefrogkid420 Aug 24 '26
no both ways in the same cup
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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Aug 24 '26
This actually happens more often than you'd think, there's a great youtube video about it called 2 girls 1 cup.
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u/ThereInAFortnight Aug 24 '26
This is one of the core things I don't understand. How is one drink made two ways in one cup?
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u/thefrogkid420 Aug 24 '26
The point is that its impossible to make it both ways in one cup the person who originally brought up "both ways in one cup" is either very confused, made a typing error, or theyre just quite dumb.
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u/lizardgal10 Aug 24 '26
Technically 2 drinks, but the one without matcha isnât anything anyone would actually want to drink
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u/Butterfly_Barista Aug 24 '26
You don't want blended milk with nondescript sugar syrup and emulsifiers?
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u/Plenty-Fox-9219 Aug 24 '26
Yes, that's Starbucks's policy. Coffee is mind blowingly cheap and they charge $9 for it
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u/dirty_cuban Aug 24 '26
Yeah 2 drinks but one (the one they actually ordered) isnât really a drink, itâs just an ingredient.
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u/1-800-COCAINE Aug 24 '26
Since nobody here seems to be able to give you a reasonable answer, yes they did get two drinks. The barista made a plain latte according to the order (matcha latte -matcha), and then one the "correct" way, and included them both in the likely case that it was an accident.
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u/GoldenRetrieverBrain Aug 24 '26
There's a common glitch with Starbucks delivery orders (I think particularly whenever you make a modification) that will remove all of the ingredients.
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u/Malum_Incarnatum Aug 24 '26
Oh this actually could explain it then. I changed it from 2% milk to oat milk. Strange though because I ordered another drink too with a modified milk and the same thing didnât seem to happen.
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u/Malum_Incarnatum Aug 24 '26
How can I elaborate so you too can enjoy the whimsy and silliness that is present here?
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u/MPaulina Aug 24 '26
It was unclear to me that you ordered one frappucino and you received two.
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u/5peaker4theDead Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
People act like knowledge of caffeinated drinks is ubiquitous, not everyone drinks or cares about the list of ingredients in various coffee/tea drinks.
Edit: this reminds me of a couple of years ago when a new employee asked me how the coffee machine worked and I said I didn't know. They were aghast, "you've been working here for years and you don't know how it works?"
I don't drink coffee, why would I care to learn how the machine works?
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u/Few-Nebula-6546 Aug 24 '26
I don't understand what knowledge is needed here. You can easily pick up that the drink consists mainly of matcha, oat milk, and ice because matcha "is the only ingredient" and without it, the drink would just be "oat milk slush." You don't even need to know what matcha is to understand that it'll have a big impact on the flavor
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u/pinkenbrawn Aug 25 '26
i am a barista and work at a coffee shop where we only do classic coffee drinks, and i didnât even know that at starbucks the coffee shop they make something that doesnât have coffee in it if itâs not cocoa. yes i know what matcha is but iâve always assumed they added that to coffee anyway? i didnât dig deeper (yes, a quick google search) because Iâm not interested.
and i was confused after reading the post only because i was left with my assumption that no it wouldnât just be a milk slush but a cappuccino then
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u/electriclux Aug 24 '26
âIâm not sure if youâre dumb and silly, or dumb and aggressive, so Iâve covered the basesâ
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u/Narpity Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
As a kid I accidentally asked for a virgin martini instead of a virgin margarita and the waiter brought me a martini glass with some olives. It was pretty cute.
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u/chloeismagic Aug 24 '26
Is a frappuccino just a cappuccino made with heavy cream or is it made with ice cream?
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u/Malum_Incarnatum Aug 24 '26
Itâs essentially a catch all term for a blended drink at Starbucks I think. Some have coffee, some have only flavored syrups or powders. Think of it like a smoothie sorta? The matcha one is matcha powder, ice, milk, and vanilla syrup I think thatâs blended till smooth.
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u/indieplants Aug 24 '26
it's made with milk/cream and ice. the ice is blended like a slush.
so it's a milk slushie with coffee, syrups, fruit or matcha or a combinationÂ
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u/chloeismagic Aug 24 '26
Damn so its not a capuccino at all, the name is kinda confusing lol. Just a blended iced latte.
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u/Qbr12 Aug 24 '26
The name Frappuccino is a combination of FrappĂŠ and Cappuccino. FrappĂŠ comes from the French lait frappĂŠ which means beaten milk, and is a type of milkshake. The Frappuccino therefore is a coffee milkshake like a cappuccino is a coffee and steamed milk.
Many times the drinks are made with different flavors, especially teas. A chai latte would be a latte made with chai instead of coffee, and a matcha latte would be a latte made with green tea instead of coffee. So in this case a Matcha Frappuccino is a Frappuccino made with green tea instead of coffee. And you can think of OPs mistake like ordering an iced latte, hold the coffee: Effectively just ice and milk.
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u/indieplants Aug 24 '26
yeah, like a puppiccino is just a tiny cup of cream for a dogÂ
it used to just be a cold coffee milkshake type drink until Starbucks acquired it and made it popular and now it's just a blended coffee or cream drink lol. frappe meant milkshake at some point, merged with cappuccinoÂ
just sounded good.Â
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u/Educational-Ad-3796 Aug 24 '26
It's a sugary sludge designed to drain your bank account and give you diabetes, but you will look trendy doing it which is more important than physical or financial well-being.
My ex-wife spent more on Starbucks than I did on drugs while in active addiction. She also wound up prediabetic
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u/JustAnotherMinority Aug 24 '26
You better go back and tip, if you already didnât.
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u/trick6iscuit Aug 24 '26
Whiskey on the rocks, no ice.
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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 Aug 24 '26
I mean, that's still a whiskey. Some might even say the correct way to drink a good whiskey.
Wouldn't "whiskey on the rocks, no whiskey" make more sense in this context?
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u/Downtown-Pianist-449 Aug 24 '26
There are whiskey rocks that you put in the freezer to get it cold without diluting. So that one at least is viable.Â
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u/PinkLemonUp Aug 24 '26
I thought this was on âmildly infuriatingâ at first glance and I was trying to figure out, âis OP mildly infuriated by themselves? I mean, theyâre being too hard on themselves, itâs not a big mistake, but that is quite self-aware of them to post it.â
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u/Malum_Incarnatum Aug 24 '26
Nope this is just mildly interesting and maximally sweet and whimsical!
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u/SeaMindless7297 Aug 25 '26
First time I ordered subway in korea i assumed the delivery app works the same as in germany where i have to choose everything i want.
Nope, i had to choose everything i didnt want so i ordered a sub and a salad with nothing but olives.
They were kind enough to give me a call and ask if i REALLY want just olives. Apparently it happens quite often
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u/OwlResponsible8847 Aug 25 '26
One time someone ordered a chocolate banana smoothie and typed out themselves âno dairyâ in the requests. I didnât know what to do lmao the ingredients were frozen banana, dairy yogurt, dairy chocolate milk. Lmao
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u/JD_tubeguy Aug 24 '26
Random fact my GF is allergic to matcha.
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u/CaptainLazerPants Aug 24 '26
This is interesting to me because matcha is just tea leaves prepared a different way. Is she allergic to all tea? (Real tea, like green or black tea, not herbal teas which are totally different plants).
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u/JD_tubeguy Aug 24 '26
As far as I know just matcha we discovered this on a trip to Japan last year.
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u/hopping_otter_ears Aug 24 '26
I wonder if that means she's actually allergic to some additive in the matcha or something that was on the tools it was prepared with. It doesn't really make sense that only one preparation of green tea bothers her unless it was something that snuck into it during the preparation process
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u/br0ck Aug 24 '26
With matcha you're ingesting the entire leaf so maybe she's allergic to some higher concentration of components of the actual leaf?
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u/hopping_otter_ears Aug 24 '26
Something that doesn't steep out in noticeable quantities, but is in the leaf itself? Maybe so!
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u/_eg21 Aug 24 '26
No offence just curious, but how do you âaccidentallyâ order a matcha frapp with no matcha
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u/Malum_Incarnatum Aug 24 '26
Iâm honestly not sure. A lot of people have brought up that if you try to make modifications on delivery apps, it can completely remove all options for an item. Itâs happened once before at Wendyâs for me when I made my chicken patty spicy and every single other topping was automatically removed but I was totally unaware until the food was delivered. Ended up with chicken on bread, school cafeteria style. Pretty disappointing.
But I also could have somehow absentmindedly hit it. The world may never know.
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u/Spare_Cauliflower917 Aug 24 '26
Nope youâre totally right. Starbucks frappucinos are known for this on the delivery app. Thereâs not even an option to remove it on the Starbucks mobile app since itâd be a completely different drink
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u/Malum_Incarnatum Aug 24 '26
Itâs so strange that it happened this time. Iâve ordered this before with the modified oat milk and it went through just fine. Though, this is the best case scenario for that glitch deciding to all of a sudden happen for me.
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u/chainlinkchipmunk Aug 24 '26
In a subthread someone said there's been a glitch in the system, OP likely didn't order wrong.
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u/s1lverm0on Aug 25 '26
my ex once purchased a Starbucks order for me on Uber. he thought the âsugarâ meant that they would put sugar packets in the bag, so I could add it to the coffee myself.
he added 12.
I had 12 sugars in my grande coffee. I can never forget that day.
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u/charthurs Aug 25 '26
Your heart probably wasnât even beating at that point. It was just vibrating. đ
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u/swatnoxxy Aug 24 '26
Instead Iâd yell out âyo, what do you actually want?â
Been in hospo so long, people ask for weird shit. Easier to clarify.
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u/Malum_Incarnatum Aug 24 '26
Unfortunately this was a delivery order and clarification was not possible
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u/Margaritashoes Aug 25 '26
I once had a guy go through our McDonaldâs and asked for a Big Mac with no rehydrated onions because heâs deathly allergic to them. I gave him a Big Mac with no sauce. When he drove through and complained about no sauce, I let him know that the same rehydrated onions are also in the Mac sauce. Those ones are apparently okay.
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u/icyii Aug 25 '26
I donât understand. You got two drinks? For free? Also what is that screen?
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u/CthulhuAteMyHomework Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
I honestly stared at it so long. But I donât think itâs a screen at Starbucks. I think they wrote the note on something and placed it with OPs order. So OP has the note resting on their keyboard.
Yeah, OP got âone free drink,â since they used the app they still paid for one. But the drink they ordered relies on matcha. So the baristas made one with matcha and one without (as OP ordered through the app). They assumed it was a mistake, tried to avoid an upset customer, and made the drink correctly just in case.
ETA: my b for responding before I was awake. Clearly.
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u/Final_Consequence614 Aug 25 '26
Yall itâs a keyboard in the background đđđ
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u/acidtrippinpanda Aug 26 '26
Reminds me of the time I thought I was a comedic genius when I ordered a McDonaldâs hamburger and unselected every single ingredient just to see would happen
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u/Existing_Doughnut985 Aug 24 '26
You got a solid staff member there. So many people wouldnât have even thought about that. I fucking love thoughtful people who just do shit because theyâve noticed something
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u/hopping_otter_ears Aug 24 '26
My husband accidentally did something like this in the drive through. Tangled his words up and accidentally and ordered a latte without milk or a shaken espresso without espresso or something. I just remember the barista asking him a confused "you want a [thing] without [the thing that makes it what it is]...?" What? No, I want it decaf. Sorry bout that! đ
You could just hear them trying to parse out how to pull off what he was asking for or trying to translate what he really wanted from what he said, then the relief that it was just a messed up word
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u/Wise-Dust3700 Aug 24 '26
I know I made a mistake but when I asked accidentally asked for no sauce in my cheese pizza, you got to question the order and call man :(
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u/thagingerrrr Aug 24 '26
I once ordered a buffalo chicken salad online and selected all the toppings I wanted, like cheese, tomato, onion, carrot, etc. I picked up the salad, took it home, and when I opened the container, it was just buffalo chicken and lettuce. I was so mad! Then I checked the online order receipt- apparently I was selected which toppings to REMOVEâŚ
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u/intellectualista Aug 25 '26
I did this years ago, not realizing that matcha was what made it green and gave it flavor! A barista explained it to me after asking for no matcha and I was like âohhhhâ. Iâm glad she didnât laugh at me!
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u/thatclassyturtle Aug 25 '26
Starbucks baristas are the best! I donât think Iâve ever had a bad experience.
I usually only go to Starbucks once a year for my yearly coffee (PSL, Iâm basic I know) but my boyfriend wanted to try the orange cream frap over the weekend so I decided Iâd try the tropical butterfly refresher (or whatever it was called, it looked pretty). I swear the barista knew that he would ask me to try mine and asked us if we wanted the second refresher they made for free. They were pretty good!
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u/Ok_Tomato_9256 Aug 25 '26
Seeing âFrappuccinoâ already triggers me, âmatcha Frappuccinoâ is even worse
Guys itâs a fucking milkshake.
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u/Lady-Velvety Aug 25 '26
I LOVE THIS!
I had ordered a burrito bowl the other day, and I just wanted steak in it. I absolutely love their steak and it was the only way for me to get a large bowl of it.
So, I marked everything else as âNoâ, only for it to arrive with everything on it. Even on the receipt it is obvious that it says NO before every ingredient.
I can only guess they assumed it was a mistake because no one ever just asks for the steak. But assumptions are not valid. Just double check with the customer! Or do something like this lol.
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u/Efficient_Pack_6425 Aug 26 '26
I had the doordash app glitch when ordering the Chai latte and it didn't have chai default selected so they made a Chai latte without Chai...I was delivered a venti cup of milk lol.
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u/TheRealBobbyJones Aug 25 '26
Accidently order my mom a cheese sandwich instead of ham and cheese. Honestly don't even understand why that would be an option.
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u/Restless__Dreamer Aug 25 '26
Probably because it is easy to make out of ingredients they already have, so why not add it as a choice.
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u/mommymary Aug 24 '26
as a partner i can assure you it probably wasnât your fault, there have been doordash glitches for yearsss that they wonât fix where it will remove all the main ingredients in the order until you add them back manually.
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u/eliettgrace Aug 24 '26
did you doordash or get it delivered? iâm a barista and iâve noticed sometimes if thereâs a modification on a delivery drink itâll glitch and take off ALL the main ingredients besides milk
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u/waltdidneyworlp Aug 24 '26
Good on the barista, I would've absolutely punished you for being difficult.
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u/FunctionNovel5393 Aug 24 '26
I one time accidentally ordered a pink drink with none of the pink part. It was just a giant glass of coconut milk. My barista was not so kind
I still maintain it was an app glitch but who knows đ¤ˇđ˝ââď¸
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