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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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Besides providing a place for their ubiquitous mermaid logo, an ingredient checklist, and your name spelled wrong, Starbuck’s coffee cups are a great blank canvas to create art.
However, we’ve never seen cartography involved in Starbucks cup art — which makes this detailed map of Middle Earth from The Lord of The Rings that much more impressive. Even better, it was left behind by the unknown artist for a Starbucks barista to find.
As far as we know, all the map points are spelled correctly. Can any Hobbits out there confirm this?
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Cartoonist Josh Hara likes Starbucks. He also likes the blank canvas that their coffee cups provide for his comics.
His Instagram project, #100CoffeeCups, looks to place a comic on 100 coffee cups. The comics are not only creative and a wonderful use of white space, but are hilarious enough to brighten up anyone’s morning. Unless you don’t drink coffee, in which case, there is no hope for you.
Keep up with the series here.
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