Starbucks Under Fire For ‘Unhealthy’ Coffee Drink
Posted by TheShot on 20 Jun 2006 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Coffee Health, Consumer Trends, Starbucks
As a follow up to a previous post from February, Upscale coffee drinks almost as caloric as Big Mac, SF’s CBS 5 news aired a story today noting that Starbucks’ Banana Mocha Frappuccino (who has time to pronounce all that?!) is even more caloric than a Big Mac: cbs5.com - Starbucks Under Fire For ‘Unhealthy’ Coffee Drink.
And yet people are often obsessing over the possible health risks of coffee — the coffee is least of their worries. (If Clara Peller were alive, she’d be yelling, “Where’s the coffee?!”) Starbucks says it is actively researching alternatives to high fat products, but it’s clearly the consumer, not Starbucks, that’s the problem here.
Mom was right: never eat or drink anything bigger than your head.
UPDATE: December 13, 2006
Months later, and CBS still loves this story — as evidenced by today’s video and news article from KEYE-TV in Austin, TX: keyetv.com - Cover Story: Coffee Drinks, Fats, Calories.
2 Comments »
on 28 Aug 2006 at 9:48 am PT 1.TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Coffee craze has everyone a bit nuts said …
[...] The idea that good coffee must equate with a 17-adjective concoction of frothed milk, hazelnut syrup, whipped cream, chopped nuts, and a cherry on top that is oh, about, 2% espresso, [...]
on 10 Dec 2006 at 6:22 pm PT 2.Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Coffee: Drink or lifestyle? How about both? said …
[...] But when you check all the references, you quickly come to the realization that much of the cult of Starbucks and its ‘Buckniks has little to do with their coffee. More often, it’s about brand coziness with a clean, approachable, predictable, and convenient location and their variety of high-calorie milkshakes (with coffee added for flavoring). When you come down to it, the great irony is that a lot of people really don’t like the taste of coffee. Yet Starbucks thrives under a coffee identity by making the otherwise unpallatable pallatable for millions of consumers, serving it under various disguises. [...]
on 31 May 2007 at 5:36 pm PT 3.Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Starbucks Coffee To Switch From Whole To Reduced Fat Milk In All Espresso-based Drinks By FY07 End said …
[...] after all the criticism over it’s calorie bombs, Starbucks is trying to do its part for the war on obesity. But curiously enough, earlier this [...]