Maple Macchiato??
I have to admit, I was skeptical. MAPLE Macchiato??? That just sounds wrong! What is Starbucks thinking?! But it was free, so I thought, "What the heck??" and tried it. And believe it or not, I actually liked it!
Sam (the manager): "What do you think Scott?"
Me: "It's sort of......well.......comforting. It kind of reminds me of the smell of my daughters faces every Saturday morning around 10:30am. Syrup. Pancakes. In a parental type of way, it's comforting. Yes, that's the word!"
Sam: "You're in the wrong business man..."
Scott,
You've got it bad! I'll try one next time I'm at Starbucks in our area. Am in NC now with some church planters/pastors. How is it going since Grainger? Trust that all is well...
Posted by: John Jackson | October 04, 2006 at 01:39 PM
wow. shocking that you enjoy a new seasonal drink from sbux. simply. shocking.
I actually saw that on our sbux menu and imagined it being too sweet for my liking.
Posted by: kenny | October 04, 2006 at 02:54 PM
I actually had maple hot wings once. That was too much. It was like eating spicy pancakes. I've got too much of an oversion to maple now, so I can't imagine drinking it.
Posted by: matt | October 04, 2006 at 07:52 PM
Ok, I've got one. Maple Dijon salad dressing. I kid you not. I thought the sweet & sour thing would work. Yeah. No. It was hideous. One of those Tom Hanks spitting out caviar in "Big" things. I think Maple needs to be pretty careful what it consorts with.
Posted by: Joni | October 04, 2006 at 08:56 PM
OK, I"m sorry but you are there way too much if they know you on a first name basis!
Posted by: David W | October 04, 2006 at 09:55 PM
a maple what? honestly i expected more discipline to resist the sweet temptations. stay "strong" man.
Posted by: Erik Thornton | October 04, 2006 at 10:45 PM
Haha! I like being on first name terms with the staff in my local coffee shop... at my one at home (ive recently moved to a new city - new country actually!- to study) they knew me by name, and knew what I normally had... it was nice to have a kind of 'friendship' with them rather than always walking in and out, and never speaking to them.
Currently on the hunt for my new local... I think i may have already found it, but still experimenting!!
Posted by: emma | October 05, 2006 at 12:13 PM
Have you ever tried Caribou coffee? It's incredible.
Had one of those Maple Macc's today and it was surprisingly good.
Posted by: coffee obsessed person | October 05, 2006 at 05:34 PM
Scott - I've been looking @ that on the menu thinking "who would DRINK that??!!" And now we know....
Live from Vegas...rb
Posted by: Randy Bohlender | October 06, 2006 at 07:15 AM