{"id":237,"date":"2009-02-05T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/macphoenix.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2009-02-05T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T15:04:28","slug":"starbucks-winter-2009-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/starbucks-winter-2009-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Winter 2009 offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>###Tazo Tea Lattes###<\/p>\n<p>*London Fog*: Very good; very sweet. First time I had this, I didn&#8217;t take the Earl Grey tea bag out, and by the end of a Grande, I was sick of the taste of [Bergamot][1]. Take the tea bag out before drinking.<\/p>\n<p>*Vanilla Rooibos*: Even better; also very sweet. Floral tea doesn&#8217;t overpower the drink. The **Starbucks** employees tend to pronounce *rooibos* like it was French: *roo-bee*. Apparently, it&#8217;s Dutch (*Afrikaans* more accurately) for *red bush* and pronounced *roy-bosh* (very soft *sh*, close to *ss*). Still, I like ordering a *Vanilla Ruby* more than a *Roybush*.<\/p>\n<p>*Black Tea*: Apparently, when I had tea with milk and sugar as a kid, I was drinking a Black Tea Latte. Who knew? My grandparents were very ahead of the curve.<\/p>\n<p>###Cupcakes###<\/p>\n<p>*Double Chocolate*: Way, way too sweet. The cupcake tastes like it&#8217;s made with artificial sweetener. The icing tastes like sugar with a chocolate liquor aftertaste. Not particularly chocolate-y.<\/p>\n<p>*Red Velvet*: Excellent sour-cream-y tasting icing. Red sprinkles that launch off the cupcake and into clothing with every bite. The cupcake is kind of chocolate-y, but is that a fruity, almost cherry-undertone? Red Velvet is not supposed to taste like cherry, or any fruit. Black Forest is chocolate and cherry. Red Velvet is just red Devil&#8217;s Food.<\/p>\n<p>*Vanilla Bean*: Sorry, I don&#8217;t buy vanilla cupcakes. I don&#8217;t order vanilla ice cream, either. It&#8217;s a hang-up I have. I&#8217;m all like, why didn&#8217;t you finish making this dessert? Isn&#8217;t there supposed to be something else in there? Vanilla? Really? It&#8217;s like ordering tea and getting a cup of hot water. Oddly, I love a vanilla soda and vanilla yogurt. Anyway, vanilla cupcakes are too boring for me to order. Get it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>###Tazo Fruit Infused Teas###<\/p>\n<p>*Berry* and *Apple*: My sister-in-law tried the Apple and said it was intense. She had to water it down. I won&#8217;t get the Apple, but I will probably try the Berry iced. Even if it&#8217;s too sweet, the ice will help water it down. Going to wait until the local temperatures around here average a bit higher than 20 degrees, though.<\/p>\n<p>[1]: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bergamot_orange<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>###Tazo Tea Lattes### *London Fog*: Very good; very sweet. First time I had this, I didn&#8217;t take the Earl Grey tea bag out, and by the end of a Grande, I was sick of the taste of [Bergamot][1]. Take the tea bag out before drinking. *Vanilla Rooibos*: Even better; also very sweet. Floral tea doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nj3d-3P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}