I Need Time Off

I needed an escape. I needed to get away from this creative world of individuality and expression. I needed to have the sweet loving arms of conformity and mass marketed products to be wrapped around me. Luckily this was Seattle and I only had to walk a few feet before I was greeted by the warm smile of a Starbucks front door.

I guess all of the days creative activities had rubbed off on me as instead of getting your standard coffee or chocolate frap I went wild and ordered myself a Pomegranate Frappuccino Juice Blend. It is summer, it is warm outside, I had found out about the goodness of the great pomegranate a while ago from the Pom juice that was being forced down our throats everywhere you looked so I figured I might as well get some anti-oxidants while I was out on the town. From what I had tasted in the past Pomegranate juice was like cranberry juice, just a little more expensive. It was also Starbucks so I knew I was getting the good stuff.

Too bad I was completely wrong.

This stuff tasted like extreme garbage. I’d like to extend the story out a little bit longer but from the first sip I knew I had been had by the corporate machine and their fancy drawings on chalk boards behind the counter. They call this a juice blend? Yeah, perhaps a blend of water, ice, and a little bit of pomegranate juice just to give it some color. It started off weak and as the ice melted it became even worse, now while I do realize that melting ice does have a tendency to dilute whatever drink it was in, but this was just trash. I don’t think I’ve been this let down by a Starbucks drink ever. I tossed it in a garbage bin. I should have gone back for a refund.

No Thumbs on this one at all.

Miikey D's Ice Cap Coffee

McDonald’s Iced Coffee.

McDonalds has joined the premium coffee world with their latest entry of iced coffee. Coming in 3 flavors, regular, vanilla, and hazelnut, they are offering a cheap alternative to Starbucks, and as I just discovered, and the ultimate premium shop of coffee, Dunkin Dounuts. Being that I had just reviewed Hazelnut flavored coffee I decided to go for the vanilla. Ordering it from the lone English speaker at the same McDonlads that screwed up my Spicy Chicken order, I was worried that they’d screw up again. Luckily not only could the man understand me and communicate back, he was also able to fill my order with no problem.

$2.11 for something this sized seems like a pretty good deal, unfortunately most of that ended up being ice.

The drink, at first it was really good, I was surprised at the flavor. The vanilla was not hidden and the coffee tasted good. Unfortunately that seemed to be the syrup that had sunk to the bottom and not mixed very well with the rest of the drink as subsequent tastes became blander and blander. I did mix up the coffee beforehand but it did not seem to matter. With the massive amount of ice in the cup the drink quickly became watered down. I hadn’t even finished half of it when the taste had become more like coffee water than iced vanilla coffee.

I think the person who dreamed up this idea never visited a Tim Hortons in Canada. Now there is an ICE CAP that sells.

1 thumb up.