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Starbucks worker reveals ‘one of the strangest drinks’ they’ve ever made on TikTok

‘Plz don’t feel weird ordering it!!’

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A Starbucks employee shared a “strange” drink order on TikTok, gaining 12,000 likes and 4.5 million views on the platform in just three days.

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“Y’all wanna see one of the strangest drinks I’ve ever made?” the text overlay and text-to-speech effect on @kenmixtape’s video asks.

The recognizable ingredients include milk, syrup, vanilla bean powder, ice, espresso, and caramel drizzle. @kenmixtape, a popular TikToker with over 550,000 followers, says in the text overlay that the drink is essentially a Vanilla Bean Frappuccino with espresso and caramel, which they dubbed a “Caramel Macchiato Frappuccino.”

Commenters pointed out that the drink is essentially an espresso ice cream. “That’s brilliant,” one said.

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Many viewers were underwhelmed with the drink and were left waiting for the order “to get strange.”

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And other viewers who say they are baristas gave examples of some truly odd drink orders.

“One of my regulars gets a trenta cup with 16 shots of espresso, 8 pumps white mocha, no ice, fill the rest w/ iced coffee,” one wrote. “cup of ice on the side.”

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Another wrote that they had a customer put espresso in a very choice beverage. “That’s not strange at all,” they commented. “I had someone come in yesterday and ask for a venti lemonade with 2 shots of espresso.”

And another Starbucks barista assured viewers that “this is not a complicated drink to make so plz don’t feel weird ordering it!!”

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Other commenters pointed out that the drink made in @kenmixtape’s video is also awfully similar to an affogato, or a beverage made with ice cream and espresso shot—which has been an existing Starbucks menu item for years.

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The Daily Dot has reached out to @kenmixtape about the video.


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