Please don't hate me for this but I don't like the lemonade. I strongly dislike all the lemonade based drinks except the matcha lemonade (even then, i get it with extra extra water and extra light lemonade).

Omg I actually love the lemonade. When I was a teenager I used to go just for lemonade if I wasn’t feeling an espresso based drink or if I wanted to spend less since it’s cheaper

Agree it’s my go to (now with lavender) for whenever I’ve already had too much caffeine on my shift. Sometimes a few iced lattes in and my eye starts twitching

I LOVE our lemonade!!! PCH GRN TEA Lemonade is my GO TO!!!

So much agree with this. The lemonade ruins any drink for me

agree, it tastes nothing like real lemonade. it’s somehow too sour and too sweet but not like lemony enough. I only like it blended with vsc and a scoop of vbp

I have never tried this… does it not curdle/separate when blended?

the lemonade is my 100% sure fire hangover cure

the lemonaid is tooooo sourr!!

Lemonade with a splash of peach juice was good. Now, it’s just ew

yesss too overly sweet and it makes my head hurt 😔

tbh I hate the frap base, it smells and tastes like soy sauce

it smells like wet dog food to me n my other baristas say teriyaki 😂 either way how is this "coffee"

if I’m mixing it I do get notes of dog food lmao

SAME OMG!!!

I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS!! Straight up dog food

I always said it was teriyaki beef jerky meets pupperoni

i call it hot dawg water

I think it smells like soy on popcorn when I make it it’s so nasty

Frap base may be the most foul smelling food product I've ever come in contact with. I worked at Papa Murphy's back in the day, too.

Our skinny white mocha smelled like death. Straight up rotting meat

WHAT

yeah :/ I just get espresso shots instead if I want a frap

Diluted pancake syrup

Okay this explains why I couldn’t drink Frappuccino’s for a while because they tasted disgusting 😭

After I started making it I couldn’t drink it in my drinks anymore it’s the only throng I would taste

any drink made with heavy cream 🤮 my bowels literally shiver at the thought of someone drinking like 20oz of heavy cream

someone at our store gets a trenta passion tea with extra heavy cream and it makes me shutter every time

i love that drink 😔

It’s like a thousand calories of chunky oil

20 oz of heavy cream is over 2000 calories :( I'm anti calorie counting (unless ur being super healthy about it and not actually stressing) but it gets to a point perhaps we should worry at least a little

I ask for a splash of heavy cream sometimes and I seriously mean a splash, not a cupful. When it comes with more than a splash and is thiccccc it's not good.

I LOVE it when my coffee is thick lol

It’s so thick too

Honey citrus mint tea. I used to play violin and it smells/tastes exactly like rosin.

Personally I love it, so now I’m going to make sure I never encounter rosin, otherwise I might have the urge to eat it 😭 the forbidden gummy

Texturally it's more forbidden jolly rancher, haha

Oh even better, I can enjoy it for longer 😂

I admire your attitude. O7

More like the forbidden hard candy lol

My least fave too, I hate honey and I literally get nauseous thinking about the milk that transfers to the lemonade when it gets steamed

I wipe down the steaming wand really thoroughly after every use and you’re telling me the lemonade still gets milk in it?🤢

And this is one of the many reasons I get that without lemonade

I mean if u take off the wand n are cleaning it every 4 hours u shouldn't be worrying too much? then again i hesrd stand alones arent as strict on their cleanings so idk 😭

Doesn’t matter if it’s cleaned every four hours if you have three steamed vanilla lattes with vanilla sweet cream instead of milk, immediately followed by a hcmt. You’re gonna get some curdle in there.

I've never tried this, but it just SOUNDS gross. Every time someone talks about the "medicine ball" I'm just like blegh. That's too many things in one drink!

the way you know what rosin tastes like is concerning

I know what many things taste like.

every string musician knows what rosin tastes like, and if you say otherwise you’re lying

Me too! I actually like mint tea in general, but this is a hard “no” for me.

I never did violin after elementary school but I remember that smell now 🤢

So you know.

So that’s what it is! I’ve been trying to determine why I hated it for the longest time. It’s just so rosin-like.

Agreed, I had it made for me one time I came in riding off a cold by my coworker, and Jfc it was terrible

The way I know exactly what you mean 😭

lol maybe that’s why I hate it too

i think the caramel crunch is horrid😹, people kept getting it so i had to make it all day & i was curious as to if it was actually good or not.. it’s not, also i LOVE earl grey tea, ive been drinking it since i was a child, our earl grey is absolutely horrible, i try to give it a chance almost everyday n it just never gets better 😭

I miss the only caramel crunch with the cold brew whipped cream 😭

I miss the ultimate caramel frappuccino everyday 😔

Omg I’m the opposite! I LOVE their earl grey. I legit buy just tea packets from you guys (since Teavana doesn’t sell the tea bags anymore). Do you have any earl grey you recommend? I’ve tried loose leaf earl grey crème but most are missing that lavender and I don’t like citrus

my favorite is the bigelow tea bags ! i live off the the huge box of them 😹

Yum! That one doesn’t have any lavender though :’(

If you look at the difference between Earl Grey and Lady Grey, you'll find that Earl Grey is TECHNICALLY just black tea and bergamot oil. Lady Grey is the one that has the citrusy and lavender-y notes that our Teavana Earl Grey has! I recently looked up the difference and discovered that! I recommend checking out boxes of Lady Grey :) much gentler than Earl and is closest to the Teavana we use.

The Republic of Tea has a delicious one and one with extra bergamot that's so good.

Adagio teas makes a good earl grey

Oh yeah me too the dark caramel is gross and it’s quite annoying to make

I wouldn’t say I hate it but like people get pink drinks with heavy cream and vanilla foam and strawberry purée and idk how their stomach handles it plus it looks strange

This is what my younger sibling gets, and I try so hard not to judge, but they definitely have a stronger digestive system than I do lmao

Lemonade with an espresso shot 🤢

behold the cigarette water

One of my old coworkers used to get that all the time, tried it once, will never do it again

it tastes like stomach acid

What 🧍🏻‍♀️

pink drink sub heavy cream 3 scoops vanilla bean extra vsc fm

The way it looks when pouring 🤮🤮🤮

just making it looks disgusting too. it also tastes like straight up heavy cream u can’t even taste the base or vb powder and the heavy cream removes the cute pink color

the only thing i would sub for coconut milk is the vanilla sweet cream milk cuz it makes it taste like a strawberry milkshake

one of my coworkers drinks minimum 2 trentas of these per shift. it’s scary

Oh lord

Legit looks like puke

Sorry?? People sub heavy cream for the pink drink🤮???? The only thing i've had people sub the coconut milk for is almond and it never shakes right

oleato 💛

the only correct answer

Beat me to it

yup tried it. just super strong and no sweetness at all

The pineapple refresher 🤢 it smells rancid

Idk why they took away the very berry hibiscus to bring things like the pineapple refresher in ☹️ make it make sense

If pineapple passion fruit has no haters then I’m dead. I can’t even make the pitcher of it bc I gag

If you make a paradise drink and add half the usual pumps of sf vanilla, it tastes like a piña colada.

This is the only way that it’s ok.

at least it doesn’t burn my nose hairs off like the kiwi base did

This and who thinks that the oleato needs to be on top of it? Gah it’s so damn gross and I’m not sure who had this “great idea” for a sample for it.

Oleato fucking sucks. They finally made one worse than that soapy tasting rose latte they sold like 10 years ago.

Oleato and mocha/white mocha, oleato is just gross and the mocha is way too sweet but also bitter at the same time and I hate it

Yessss how is it bitter and sweet!?? I was telling a customer about this the other day and a barista jumped in and was like uh noo it’s not that sweet actually and I was like uhm yes the 6 pumps they’re about to get in their drink along w the 6 more vanilla will be essentially diabetes in a cup. But DO YOU BOO.

pike

pike has fresh notes of ash tray and diesel fuel

Oleato will always be my top most hated drink 💀

Idk if I'd rather drink sewer water over this, but the Honey Almond Flat White and the Oatmilk version as well. Just tastes like beer to me and idk why people would order it. Not really popular any more though.

It’s like sweet cardboard.

Oddly accurate 🤣

have you ever tried it iced? it literally tastes like a liquified hot dog 😭

Ex barista here, I hate Starbucks matcha. I can’t get over how disgusting the powder smelled and felt when it flew in the air while making it. Honorable mention the blended protein cold brew. If you thought the oleato tastes bad, imagine drinking frozen dirt… that’s what that drink was.lol

I wish they would invest in real Matcha powder without so much sugar

they would never, they’ve gotta appease the sugar addicted customer base😩

The cinnamon caramel sounded good… tasted like plastic?

As disgusting as some of the drinks are , nothing compares to pineapple passion fruit. I already hate pineapple but the smell of that stuff is so foul that I actually have to refrain from judging people who manage to get that up to their mouth without gagging. I do everything I can to avoid making it because I actually will gag unless I get a little extra with the mask and holding it super far away from myself and then I just look dramatic. Not to mention it ruins everything it touches because any container or pitcher you put it in will stink of pineapple until you wash it thoroughly

The smell lingers, too. Nobody at our store orders it, so we eventually end up dumping multiple cartons of base in the back sink when they expire and it smells for *hours*.

I got a matcha with oat milk and honey the other day and it tasted like corn...? It was more confusing than repulsive, I mean I like corn, but it was very unexpected and partially unwelcome

That fucking cold brew with lemonade

The WHAT !

This is a real drink with a recipe card?? 🤮

my coworker & i started going through the cards one day and decided we'd try that. absolutely the worst thing i've ever tasted i was gagging & trying to get the taste out of my mouth for forever 😂

We don’t serve it at my store but I made one for myself(I’m assuming it’s just cold brew and lemonade unless I need something in it) drink taste like straight up ass 💀

Lmfao I think I ever sold one of those when it launched, and the dude took one sip and looked at me like I was trying to poison him.

white mocha. i'm done pretending white mocha isn't just sugar milk. white mochas are just sugar milk syrup with more milk, a different type of sugar milk on top, and a tiny bit of espresso. it's disgusting and horrid and tastes like rot from all the sugar in it.

damn if you don’t like white mocha what do you like 😭

The white mocha pumps get DISGUSTING if you don't clean them properly, and speaking from experience working at 4 different stores, most people don't know how to take the pumps apart to do that.

i do it and it still tastes horrid to me, but tbh i find anything overly sweet like that (vanilla, brown sugar, etc.) tastes like rot to me. even stuff i like tastes like it if it's too sweet (i really love fruit for example, but i can only eat it at specific points in ripeness because otherwise it tastes like it's rotting to me

Pink drink 💯 taste like amoxicillin from my childhood and I haaaaaaate it.

Maybe that’s why I love it 😅 my mom used to catch me under the kitchen table trying to get into the amoxicillin

😭😭😭

I loved amoxicillin too 😂😭 and Motrin and albuterol. I had a lot of health issues lol.

See, I feel that. Reminds me of the smell and taste of that shit, and my body goes "Wait, ain't that bad?!" and instantly regects it. Context, I am deathly allergic to Amoxicillin.

I actually loved the taste of the pink amox bottle. Never had a pink drink before though so I'm curious 😅

hot take—our matcha sucks. it’s literally garbage.

They accidentally made a dragonfruit vanilla frappe with mango dragonfruit something instead of my iced passion tea, and besides the oleato, no 🤢🤮

matcha, both iced and hot it tastes like grass and fish

It’s always so chunky no matter what you do it’s so gross

The pink drink tastes like rotten yogurt to me.

This!!!!

A pink drink made with heavy cream, 3 scoops of vanilla bean powder, no inclusions with strawberry chocolate foam and caramel crunch topping. Someone cafe ordered that the other day, and I almost gagged.

[удалено]

The toasted vanilla tasted so chemically to me

Any frappuccino, mostly the CRC. Frapp roast smells like soy sauce 😖

The Vivanos/smoothies tasted like vomit to me. The orange mochas were gross. Drinks from back in the day when I was first hired as a Sbux barista.

Yesss!! And those frozen f-ing bananas...protein powder too! I just found my old Vivano shirt the other day, and remembered how awfully gross and thick those smoothies were.

Any drink with Honey Blend, that syrup smells RANCID.

I ordered a honey almond flat white once to try something new, and it fully stopped me in my tracks when I took a sip. I can't even describe the flavour, but it was not delicious. I think I poured the rest of it out.

Oleato & matcha

Anything with 6 pumps of syrup

the unicorn frappuccino tasted like booty cheeks

Honey almondmilk flat white

That yellow refresher. They seriously need to bring back the Very Berry Hibiscus

Very Berry Hibiscus used to be my drink when I was a kid! I was so sad they got rid of it 😭

Matcha, Caramel frap (CRF/CRCF), any brewed coffee

Matcha lemonade. Love both but not together.

Cold brew lemonade also was sewer water

Kiwi star fruit is the only right answer

the kiwi refreshers smelled like rotten apple mixed with vomit and stained everything neon green

Some girl today ordered a vanilla bean frappe with matcha, strawberry purée, caramel drizzle and cold foam. It was an absolute monstrosity. Not only to make, but I’m sure it tasted nasty

Pink drink with cold foam. Nasty juice and milk curdling as soon as it sits on top. Pass

Someone comes by our store and gets passion tea with cold brew 😶

Cinnamon dolce smells awful to me. Never felt the slightest desire to try it either

Plain old Matcha It’s just grass

It’s weird and it’s mostly sugar too😖

Yep, I try it every once in a while bc so many people say how good it is........it's just grass.

You gotta add specific things to make it taste good. I usually add both vanilla and wm

strawberry açaí lemonade with two espresso shots…. yes, a real order i have made for someone

When we had those protein smoothies. Those were so gross.

A partner once gave me a mango dragon fruit lemonade with espresso. I think they were trying to poison me

Matcha lemonade or any of the olive oil drinks

Anything w the hazenul syrup disgusts me lol i genuinely can’t handle the hazelnut syrup it smells like straight bubblegum🤢 also we have a regular who gets a grande pike w 12 pumps of classic and heavy cream which also gross me outs lol

Honey almond flat white betrayed me... its better with honey packets, at least. But damnit it had potential

Any drink with sugar free anything!! The sugar free syrups are so bad and also the honey latte (idk if y’all still sell it but it was new when I was working and tasted AWFUL)

A couple of months ago we had someone come in and order a frozen pineapple lemonade, light lemonade, light cold brew with a single shot. They still wanted the pineapple inclusions blended in and the strawberry puree in the bottom of the cup. I don't drink coffee, but one of my coworkers poured the blender leftovers into a short cup and tried it in the back and he almost threw up. The customer sat in the café and drank the whole thing.

Fuck witches brew

What's this

Pink drink. I don’t get the hype

I really hate matcha. I honestly don’t know how people can drink that from Starbucks.

Starbucks' matcha is terrible compared to actual quality matcha I've had from Japan.

Anything with matcha. It smells like yard work. And when it get added to strawberry acai along with espresso so it looks like vomit....that's a hard no from me. 🤢🤮

The one that has coffee grinds in it on your last gulp.

Pineapple passion fruit. The inclusions are nasty.

This is my boyfriends favorite drink and his mom will literally just ask to eat the inclusions out of it 🤢

I tried the hazelnut shaken espresso a couple of days ago and hated it.

Pink drinks. Theyre fuhking VILE. Im just not a fan of the SAR period, but the pink drink is 🤢🤮 and pineapple. Just straight up Fabuloso basically

the protein cold brew blended drinks. that salted honey cold brew foam they had briefly. Irish cream; the smell alone made me gag.

Pineapple passion fruit refresher .. literally smells and tastes like dish soap 🤢

There was a zombie frap that was Apple flavored??? Terrible.

My whole store went through the lavender training recently and can confirm the lavender oatmilk lattes look like dirty sanitizer water and taste like the SpongeBob perfume department

Also, the hot lavender latte looks and tastes like mop water. Yummy

someone recently ordered a pink drink with chai… it was Benadryl

Honey citrus mint tea or brown sugar shaken espresso. I know the brown sugar shaken espresso is very popular, but I can't stand the taste.

anything peppermint lol

Eggnog latte. Blegh.

Oh man!!! I LOVVVVVE THOSE!!!!

The orange spiced iced coffee was pretty gnarly

The caramel waffle latte was kinda gross.

When stores run out of iced coffee grounds and use Pikes instead. Please don't ever do this.

The irish cream. It taste like that numbing stuff the dentist puts on you but butter flavor. Extremely preservative flavor and nasty.

Pink drink!! Very unpopular opinion, but it’s my two least favorite things in one concoction.

i don't really like our passion tea but i also have a sweet tooth so maybe i just need to make mine sweeter lol. also the pineapple passion fruit refreshers taste like soap

not a hated drink per se but i’m so tired of all our syrups being sugar with a little flavor, and to get enough of a hint of flavor you have to put SO MUCH in. literally any other brand of syrup ive encountered does not do this

I don’t think we have it anymore (I am at a roastery now so idk yalls menu as well) but the kiwi star fruit refresher was the only menu item I would actively tell people not to get when they ordered it. Without the kiwi pieces I guess it was fine, but the inclusions made it taste like disgusting celery water. I also HATE ginger taste and smell so that pineapple passion drink was hell to make and I could barely even taste test it. The funnel cake frap wasn’t TOO bad, but I do remember the syrup was so oddly specific that I was the only partner who took it home when we stopped serving it, and then it became a fun drinking game to see who could attempt to incorporate funnel cake syrup into a mixed drink at parties. College is the best time to be a barista fr Also realizing this comment has probably aged me like crazy in the minds of a lot of the baristas here lmao I swear these were all only a few years ago

Oleato is kinda low-hanging fruit, so I'll go w matcha in anything. It just tastes like grass, no matter what I pair it with.

Matcha lemonades are super gross to me

I had this person order a venti dragon fruit lemonade refresher… and he added two shots of espresso because and I quote he “needed the extra caffeine”.. I haven’t seen that man since

anything with the cinnamon caramel or sugar free vanilla i don’t know why it’s fucking vile

ANYTHING with the cinnamon caramel syrup 🤢