How bad is Starbucks for you?

Think snowballs plus fat and caffeine.

What kind of question is this?

It can be very bad or not bad at all, depending on your choices.
95% of the time I get a small dark roast. My friend always gets a grande frappy. shite load of sugar, so not good.

I'm a big fan of the dark roast at SB. I usually brew my own stuff, but when I do stop at a store, I like SB much better than the other shitty local chains.

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Depends what you get, obviously.

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Obviously. Most people who are going through there every day are buying the full flavored, loaded down with cream/sugar/etc options though. Their Pumpkin Spice Latte is something like 350-400 calories with 2% milk and whipped cream. The White Chocolate Mocha is almost 500.

Their "skinny" options are under 200 for the most part. I'm not a fan of their sugar-free syrup though so if I go I try to cut corners in other ways. I'll occasionally get Cinnamon Dolce Latte but knock out the whipped cream, decaf, and roll with nonfat milk. If I'm going with just regular coffee I'm better off just brewing it at work.

My venti Americano isn't unhealthy at all.

There are a lot of fat women that come to my Starbucks and order what is basically ice cream and chocolate with one shot of coffee. It's a huge amount of calories...but they justify it because it's just 'coffee.'

Kind of like ordering a Bloomin' Onion at Outbacks. "Hey, it's a vegetable."

Hey, I worked with women who had a fattening lunch at break time and as a drink had a can of one of those diet meal replacements.

They were also big on eating cookies while drinking diet coke. They thought it all canceled out.

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Almost no one gets a plain coffee that enters the doors.

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I think most that enter the doors get a standard, not-unhealthy drink. Drive thru is completely a different story.

Triple short Americano is only 20 calories and 200 mg of caffeine. Lol

Don't know how much of this is true, but it did make me rethink about some of Starbuck's stuff.


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