An editor just delivered to me a Starbucks gift card from the author of a book I haven’t even started working on yet. The author was late in returning the copyedited manuscript (or something—according to the schedule I have, nothing’s due until January) and actually felt guilty, knowing that combined with the holidays, this might send a cascade of hardship through the production department.
Awww.
Does Starbucks have sandwiches? (Being a tea drinker, I never go in there.) I could really use a sandwich right now.
not sure what commander starbuck sells in the way of food either. sue & flora gave me a pretty mug from there once. nice wispy brushstroke painted folk designs of a mythical creature plus flourishes. terracota. bright colors. from italy. broke it pretty fast. clumsy-handed roughneck person. it became my shaving mug tho. i hate to toss away a pretty thing. and it was from sue & flora, you know.
I do hope you’ve copped a bite by now, be it a Starbucks sammie or something other.
Tea? As I recall, Starbucks offers only those little packets of desiccated Tazo teas. My tea-fancying friend (and Clusterflock contributor) Cooper Renner wrote to me recently of Tazo. We agreed: We like the name, but you can flush the product.
I don’t know about sandwiches. . .but their espresso brownies are perfect for, well, those times just before your friend comes to visit every month. PERFECT I tell you! :-D
Starbucks has tea too. I admit to having a strange weakness for their green tea lattes, which they were touting about a year ago. Their pastries are OK, and if you’re eating them for free, they’re excellent.
Yes, I am aware that Starbucks has tea, but they charge an absurd amount for it, and it’s all Tazo, which I’m not crazy about. It may be difficult to make a good cup of espresso in a typical office setting, but I can make my own excellent tea, no problem.
I’ve never tried a green tea latte, but I did succumb once to the lure of the green tea frappucino, or some such, and it was disgusting. So incredibly sugary, so revoltingly cow-flavored. And it probably cost four bucks.
I’ll stick with my Mariage Frères, thank you very much.
Starbucks has very good hot cocoa, made from real milk and real chocolate syrup, and they will let grownups buy the kids’ size (walk brazenly up to the cashier, say “I’d like a kids’ size hot cocoa, please”) and boom! There is is! You can even get a peppermint one, and then they’ll put red sprinkles on top.
This may work better if you’re female, as they may assume there is a child, somewhere, waiting for hot cocoa.
Also, their milk-chocolate-covered graham crackers are nice. And when I was pregnant (well, when I was hilariously, hugely pregnant) they would always let me use their bathrooms without buying anything.
i heart green tea frappucino.
My company has given out SBUX cards from time to time. One appeared on my desk one day for showing up for the annual results meeting . . . which tells me their headcount was flawed, as I actually had skipped it. Not being a big fan of the coffee (which I tend to take only with cream and sugar, as opposed to the fancier concoctions), I’ve used the cards to get the New York Times. A perfect use would be to buy access to the T-Mobile hotspot, but ’tisn’t an option.