The Starbucks "bootleg latte"--Starbucks' official response

[Panopticon]

[quote herbiesyufy]
2) Some people will degrade themselves and sink to almost any level to save a buck.
Oh Snap, and here I believed that 'saving a buck' was why this Tips and Deals section was here. I feel so debased and plebeian.

[elmo3]

Well, let's see: Starbucks offers two things. One of them they put on a menu and put a price next to, and when your order it and pay that amount the "barista" makes it and hands it to you, fully formed.

But they also offer the individual parts of that thing as separate entities that you may purchase separately. They don't spell it out word for word, but any individual with a 4th grade education can look at the ingredients list of the fully formed product and the ingredients list of the other various offerings, and can figure out how much it costs to put the product together in a different way.

Starbucks is happy to sell it to you either way.

According to herbiesyufy, I am OBLIGATED to take the fully formed product simply because it is on the menu that way. According to herbiesyufy, I am not at all allowed to mix the other products together and come up with the same thing, because in his world that would be wrong.

Moreover, herbiesyufy tells us that he and he alone is the judge of where the line is drawn between what you may put together and still be "moral" and what you may not put together without crossing the line into "immoral".

Oh--and then he calls the manual process by a blatantly racist name. Apparently, that's moral in his world. By using the blatantly racist reference, he has not crossed the line into immoral or unethical.

[elmo3]

Love it, love it, love it! From the Starbucks Gossip page, one of the responses:

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Posted by: Coffee Drinker in Seattle | Sep 8, 2006 1:45:49 AM

You know what amuses me is how the majority of Starbucks employees think they are the depressed little Gothic boys and girls, the trendy little children of "Metrosexuality" (which really is a queer way of saying Gay), the purveyors of 'wisdom' only the truly 'downtrodden' 'know'. When in essence the majority of them are nothing but assclowns and assjockeys. If charging outrageous prices for a blasted cup of coffee or tea isn't enough to inflate your ego then remove the Half and Half and other condiments from your tables. In fact hell remove all the condiments from the table and charge the customers for each and every little thing they want in there. Hell instead of the $10.82 for 2 (TWO, DUECE, DUEX, NI WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL TWO) drinks isn't outrageous enough think how much you can charge now...damn like maybe $24.75 shoot maybe even $39.99 just for the 2 drinks.

Or wait maybe here is an idea. How about the customers are trying to say that the Superinflated ego's of the Starbucks employees aren't actually that intelligent or maybe even lack the proper hand eye coordination to make a drink that is actually palatable to the customer. Maybe Starbucks employees should stop makinig racially intoned comments by labeling drinks 'ghetto latte's' (seriously be honest everyone here first thought and still thinks the customers being referred to are black people). That is messed up.

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Hey, herbiesyufy: what's with the "ghetto" reference, anyway?

[DaviDC.]

[ztirffritz]

Thank you DavidDC. That about wraps it up. Go home folks. There's nothing to see here.

[D-Rod]

[Seacrest]

Wait 'til these 'ghetto' people find out ducks eat free at Subway.

[lafinfil]

[quote herbiesyufy]No over-the-top outrage. Just this, from the same website:

"Ethics professor says making a "Ghetto Latte" may be OK, but...

Marquette University ethics prof Keith Bauer says: ..... [quote herbiesyufy]


Marquette ? Wow - yesterday they were " nutty" because they were "symbolically eating someone's body and drinking their blood"

So now they are normal enough to be part of your rebuttal ?
So which is it ? Are they a bunch of wacky Jesuits or what ?

[SeattlePhotog]

Wacky Jesuits?!? That's just being redundant!

[Baby Tats]

Herbie goes to the all you can eat buffet, but only gets one plate- It's unethical.
Herbie goes to a fast food restaurant, but never refills his sodas- It's unethical.
Herbie goes to Starbucks, but never uses more than 0.5 oz milk- It's unethical.

Herbie goes to the public bathroom, but only uses one sheet to wipe- Which would account for the smell.


BT