On my way to work today, I popped in to Starbucks to get my daily double-tall soy latte.
I always figure that I am "living on the edge" by doubling up the espresso in a small cup. But my "dangerous ways" were put to shame by the order of the guy standing behind me in line.
"Can I get the usual, please?" he asks the barista.
"That's six shots on ice, right?" asks the barista. (Who I have learned has been moved from the Starbucks on Mass Ave - near Berkley - to the South End location. Is that location closing????)
"Yep," confirms the guy. "Six shots, over a little bit of ice."
I don't even want to think about what six shots of espresso, lightly chilled, would do to me. I once, just for fun, did five shots within two hours at one of my previous jobs... When the company got a new fancy coffee machine that dispensed single shots of espresso.
I ended up lying on the floor feeling my heart pounding very fast. And I also got a little bit dizzy.
But six shots? In one drink? Oh that's just bad news. I wanted to say to the guy ordering it, "It's probably cheaper for you to just go back on crack. Starbucks is getting kind of expensive."
Monday, August 11, 2008
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"Crack is probably cheaper"...that's hilarious. I can totally see this getting you another shout-out on Boston.com.
Reminds me of the "Murky Coffee" incident (Google "espresso over ice refuse").
Customers have the right to do wacky things I guess.
They certainly do!
I just wonder how his heart handles it. holy cow!
That is only about the same amount of caffeine as 2-2.5 cups of regular drip coffee, and the volume of less than one.
My stovetop Bialetti makes 6 shots, and I typically will have a double espresso in the morning and put the remainder over ice at lunch.
It's Berklee, not Berkley
Sorry! Berklee!
Didn't mean to disrespect all those music studies students!
I used to work at a local restaurant where we could have as much espresso as we wanted. Yeah, it might seem like a dream come true but things like that shouldn't go unchecked. My boss drank at least two giant fish bowls of espresso and cream a day. Each one usually had about four shots. Hrmm, I wonder if he's the same guy at Starbucks.
Sleep is so overrated.
That's messed up. Six shots of anything is overkill. Nutty caffeine freak.
It's called a Deep-Six and guaranteed to kill whatever hangover or anything bothering your stomach. Your body literally goes into overdrive and it will make you as unfit to operate a vehicle as drinking 6 shots of hard liquor.
But it'll definitely wake you up.
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