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By: Janet

Janet — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:26:05 +0000

Cant believe they sweeten the iced coffee & tea without letting the customer know. Arent they worried about lawsuits from diabetics?

By: Ghoast

Ghoast — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:32:43 +0000

If you need sweetener for your iced tea you're probably drinking pretty crappy tea.

Also, I can understand wanting sugar in one's coffee... but as the default? No. Just no. This is wrong. Some may say it's not an issue with "right" and "wrong" and usually with most issues I agree... Right and Wrong are ideas about things we make up in our heads. But this? This definitely is black and white and I'm fully comfortable being a fascist about it.

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:27:24 +0000

Up here (in Canada) iced tea is always sweet. So when I'm south of the border and ask for iced tea I always assume it will be too. Then I take a sip and make a face when I realize its not. Its funny how the whole sweet vs unsweet iced tea depends on where you're from.

By: Nine

Nine — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:46:41 +0000

I recently had my first ever Starbucks coffee in Berlin, Germany and ordered an iced coffee. I was surprised to get just that, icy cold unsweetened coffee. In the Netherlands the current hype is a smooth frappucino whith milk and sugar. I decided that I like the Starbucks coffee but for all I care they can keep their milk and sweeteners and syrups. Just strong black coffee for me please!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:57:39 +0000

Bleh. I have only ordered iced coffee once from Starbucks, and hated it because it WASN'T sweetened, or maybe just not sweetened enough. I had to add sugar and stuff to it, and adding sugar to a cold drink is pretty much impossible. I never knew there was another option.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:09:35 +0000

In Boston they always ask if you want it sweetened or unsweetened. I don't know why sweetened has to be sickly sweet though...

By: megan

megan — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:59:00 +0000

Hanna - I don't mind that you sweeten the drinks, I mind that is isn't mentioned on the menu.

By: Hanna

Hanna — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:49:31 +0000

Working as a barista, I've gotten a lot of people lately that really emphasize the fact that they want their iced tea unsweetened and i was thinking it was odd, but i guess now i know why they feel they have to emphasize it. we do have a smaller fraction of people who are disappointed that we don't have a simple syrup to add to the drink and that they have to try to get sugar to dissolve or choose a flavor. guess you can't please everyone.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:24:10 +0000

Yuck indeed. Another tip - if you ever order a Chai Tea, make sure that it's not Starbuckese for 'Chai Tea Latte' at your neighborhood shop (another sickly sweet surprise).

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:42:24 +0000

I didn't know that they sweetened it, but I always order things unsweetened (specifically) as a matter of course.

I wonder why they do this?

By: Marnie

Marnie — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:53:16 +0000

Ew, yes, I knew this...learned it the hard way (a couple times, I'm a slow learner.)

By: liz

liz — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:19:26 +0000

In Manhattan, Starbucks now posts the calories in both food and drink—my regular summer drink is an iced Americano, but I was thinking about taking the quick way one day until I saw the iced coffee was listed at 90 (!) calories. I asked and the barista couldn't understand why I was even wondering. This explains a lot!

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By: chez shoes

chez shoes — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:57:20 +0000

Oh goodness! No wonder I got sick the one time I ordered iced coffee there. Not to mention it tasted nasty. I'm blogging this to spread the word.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:38:08 +0000

Further, I don't want their iced coffee "mix", I just want them to take the coffee and put it over ice, done. They always seem so surprised when I am emphatic about that.

My mom went to a Braum's (in the south) to get a milkshake, and was asked if she wanted the simple syrup in it. We were all horrified to find they had been ADDING SUGAR to a friggin milkshake all these years. bleah.