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Starbucks coffee drinks are to me what I’d imagine it would be like to gargle a sheet cake. Not just sweet, but cloying, and very fatty.

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Frequently they'll take something that I like and add a couple of pumps of vanilla to it, then discontinue the original recipe.

There was a cold brew with sweet cream that they had last year which was a really good cold drink that wasn't overly sweet. So this year they replace it with a cold brew with vanilla sweet cream and now it has two pumps of vanilla syrup in it in addition to the sweetness of the sweet cream. So now it's disgustingly sweet and tastes cloyingly of vanilla.

I pretty much only get lattes and drip coffee there now.

You can just ask them not to put in the vanilla; starbucks is impressively malleable, and removing a syrup is likely barely on their complexity meter, given the hyper-specific orders I’ve seen people give

You can basically give them the recipe for anything you want and they will make it for you. You don’t have to order only what’s listed on the menu.

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