Beverages Update

[c9]

I forgot to mention that I tracked down nutritional information for my other ridiculous beverage of choice, the Second Cup Icepresso Chiller. It's been added to the chart.

Verdict?

McDonald's is evil due to being a corporation. But it's convenient and cheap.
Starbucks is evil due to be being a corporation, but good due to being ethically sound and nice to its employees.
Second Cup wants to be an evil corporation but will probably get squashed between Starbucks and Tim Hortons*.

Health Verdict?

McDonald's: unhealthy in every way but fibre.
Starbucks and Second Cup: essentially equal in their "more healthy than McDonald's but not quite Health Food" status.

* which I note has officially lost the apostrophe in both languages.

Comments

[c9.livejournal.com]

Pfft. The word is meaningless. It's just like saying Supersize, Biggie, or Ford Expedition XL.

[joecdn.livejournal.com]

Actually venti is Italian for twenty, which is the amount of ounces the hot cup holds. The cold cup is 24 oz. but to give that size a different name would just confuse people more.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Ha! I love it. I knew that the many Starbucks experts on my friends list would get into this eventually. :)

[joecdn.livejournal.com]

Yeah I heard a rumour though that Starbucks was thinking of reverting back to S M L, but I think that would be stupid too. I'm used to tall, grande, venti....I order grande cokes from McDonalds, that's how used to it I am LOL.

[sarah-sosiak.livejournal.com]

Someone I knew who worked for *$s in Seattle mentioned that focus groups they'd been doing in the southern states showed that people there want options even bigger than the Venti. Think: Big Gulp Bucket o' Frappucino. But *$s doesn't want to give the people what they want because the company thinks it would cheapen its image. :-).

[sarah-sosiak.livejournal.com]

But *$s doesn't want to give the people what they want because the company thinks it would cheapen its image. :-).

Clarification: Not that giving people what they want would cheapen *$'s image, but that selling Frappuchinos by the gallon would cheapen *$'s image. (Maybe they're worried about the inevetable "a gallon of Frappuchino costs less than a gallon of gas" comparison.)

[joecdn.livejournal.com]

I know that if Starbucks came up with a size larger than venti - that most partners would refuse to make them. Venti's already difficult enough to make given the logistics of everything. Big Gulps come out of a dispenser whereas our drinks are made to order.