Regardless of how you feel about Starbucks’ new red cups, there’s certainly more creative opportunities to offend.
Gemma Correll is back with a cute new comic, offering up a few Less Appealing Seasonal Drinks. Yellow Snow Iced Tea sounds lovely… What, you got something against green?!?
With all of the controversy surrounding Starbucks’ red holiday cups, it’s good to see someone having some harmless fun with a cardboard drinking vessel.
Twenty-year-old artist, Carrah Aldridge, takes the mermaid-adorned cups and vastly improves them with original art. The cup designs are created with Sharpies markers, a white gel pen and copic markers.
Just don’t color any of them red, Carrah… we don’t want any trouble.
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Step away from the Pumpkin Spice Latte… there’s a new fleeting drink offering from Starbucks. The Frappula, a vampire-inspired beverage, is a white chocolate frapp with mocha sauce, whipped cream, and raspberry sauce as the blood part.
Hurry though… The Frappula is only around until Nov. 1. Coincidentally, this also marks the official end of our national pumpkin spice nightmare.
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Deep Fried Pumpkin Spice Latte, by Oh Bite It, takes the Fall beverage, and does what most of us would like to do with the entire trend of pumpkin-tinged foodstuffs… drop it in hot oil.
Made simply by soaking cake squares in a Starbucks PSL, they are then deep-fried and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. Oh, Fall… we can’t stay mad at you. Get the recipe here.
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We all know what the Starbucks Mermaid looks like from behind… But what’s going on beyond the green circle?
Artist Abe Green, through some creative illustration on Starbucks cups, reveals the Secret Life of The Starbucks Siren.
Who knew that she actually likes to ride a bicycle, spends time as a LEGO minifigure, or likes to fish… even if she’s kinda one herself? See more below and over at Abe’s site here.
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