On the weekend I was walking downtown for a friends birthday and made the wrong shoe choice and now I have a giant blister on the bottom of each foot to show for it. So at work today, I decided to not take lunch because tbh I just didn’t want to walk downstairs to the PATH to find something. So, when I got off work, I was craving something sweet and a S’mores Frappuccino came to mind. I figured that would be filling enough to tide me over until dinner but not so filling that I wouldn’t eat dinner. Plus, Starbucks was a drive thru so I could be lazy.
When I got to Starbucks though, they had no marshmallow whatever so no S’mores Frappuccino. Instead I got the Horchata Almond Frappuccino since that was what was being highlighted and I dont know the Starbucks menu well enough to think of something else quickly. They were also highlighting their Shaken Iced Teas and my coworker (the one who bitches at me when I buy Agua Fresca) made a huge stink about how amazing the Shaken Teavana Pineapple Black Tea Infusion was so I thought I would try it. I got it with lemonade because it was offered and I was curious.
I should have known better than to trust that co-worker because this is pretty meh. It is not a bad iced tea per se and its definitely got a distinctive pineapple flavor but either the lemonade, or perhaps Starbucks’ affinity for sweetening everything, makes this just too sweet. I thought a tart lemonade could highlight pineapple which tends to be sweet and tart but instead it is a slightly distracting side note that makes the whole thing seem a bit flat. This is okay in a pinch and tbh probably better without the lemonade but at the end of the day it wasn’t worth the hype my coworker made. The horchata frappuccino is pretty good though for those who want something sweet.
Nothing worse than hearing someone rave about something then you try it and it’s meh.