A Truly Skinny Latte
Every time I place an order at Starbucks I’m reminded of that scene with Steve Martin in L.A. Stories where he orders a de-caf double half caf, with a twist of lemon and all the pretentious yuppies, clad in their designer label fashions and wearing their diamond-studded Raymond Weil watches, all say “me, too” because they don’t want to miss out on the latest fad.
Not that feeling stupid stops me from sounding like one of them. I’m addicted to Starbucks. In fact, their Carmel Mocchiato is one of my favorite treats, but someone once told me there’s something like a bazillion calories in those things, so I’ve compromised by switching to non-fat latte and hope that the caffeine sufficiently bumps up my metabolism to burn off whatever calories might be lurking in the thing.
The company’s latest announcement makes burning those calories off even easier. Beginning next month, Starbucks is going to use a sugar-free syrup in its lattes and mochas that reduce the calories by 50 percent.
Of course, that only means I’ll sound even more ridiculous as I stand there ordering a grande triple-shot skinny sugar-free latte without foam but with three Equals, please. But, hey, at least I’ll be saving enough calories to balance out the biscotti I inevitably buy, too.
11 Responses to “A Truly Skinny Latte”
I saw a comic once that was pretty funny. The customer is at the register and orders a skim milk decaf latte with Sweet’n'low and the cashier calls the order to the barista as “One Why Bother”
I love that comic.
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Kind of like someone who goes into a Pizza Hut, orders a medium pepperoni pizza and Diet Coke then sits down by themselves to eat it, huh?
I worked at McDonald’s in high school. There was a regular patron of ours that came in who would order two quarter-pounder-with-cheese burgers, with an extra patty and bacon, an extra-large fries, and an extra large Diet Coke.
I never understood that. Canceling out the calories from dark chocolate with white chocolate, I get, but….
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Aside from being diabetic, I’ve always ordered diet Cokes because I preferred the taste over the regular. (And have you seen what 32 grams of sugar looks like in just a 12 oz can of the stuff?!)
Anyway, glad to hear the Starbucks change, but you can already get the stuff with sugar-free syrup. Nobody thinks to ask unless they’ve got sugar problems, though.
And Kate, I’ll match your order with a triple Venti s/f-vanilla soy latte, double splenda.
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Yay for Starbucks! That is awesome. I always order SF syrup anyway but now it’ll save me the breath of asking…
Or cause me more to ask if they REALLY use SF or not…
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Good point, Elizabeth!
Jae, I usually can’t stand diet drinks. Like you, VH prefers their taste, but I’d rather have water than a diet soda… unless it’s TaB. Or Coke Zero. Love that stuff.
Wg, you can cancel out calories in dark chocolate? Do tell!
I’m to the point now where I rarely drink any kind of soda at all. Water and milk are about all I take any more. I made the mistake of having a diet mt dew a couple of nights ago around 5 p.m. and was up until 2 in the morning. Unfortunately it’s about the only soda I can stand anymore because it’s not too heavily carbonated.
sigh
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VH is a huge diet Dew fan, but I’ve forbidden him to bring it home because he insists on the full-caffeine version. Last time my little boy got hold of a can of that stuff he was bouncing off the walls until the middle of the night.
I made VH stay up with him.
Yes, I’m certain that white chocolate and dark chocolate cancel one another out. Or if not, they should.
If you guys wanna try something really fun, try taking some of that non-dairy creamer that they give you for use in coffee, set some of it on a non-flammable surface in a well-ventilated area, and light it on fire. It’s explosively flammable, which is one major reason why I don’t ingest it.
Oh, and Jae – I’m firmly convinced that aspartame is eeeeeeevil. bleck.
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Mmmm, now I want a Grande skinny sugar-free double Mocha!
Mmmmm. Me, too!