
As one customer said, "as long as it looks the same!"Įdit 7:35pm: The unicorn is dead. Putting in extra blue unicorn dandruff instead. One of my partners is screaming.Įdit 5:30 pm: Out of blue unicorn mucus. One of our blenders shattered while making a unicorn with extra unicorn shit.

One Redditor, zeph_yr their problems in the thread "Day 1 of Unicorn Frappuccino and I wanna die." They write: We're almost out of the blue mucus. The inside of the drink has a purple hue at first, but as you mix all the stuff together it turns pink."īy April 20th, baristas began posting on the /r/subreddit their problems with making the drink. It’s got a sour blue topping and pink powder dusted whipped cream on top. "A crème Frappuccino blended with pink powder and mango syrup. On April 19th, Starbucks released the Unicorn Frappuccino, a caffeine-free, bright pink and blue beverage that would only be available until April 23rd. On August 25th, the food blog Food Babe published an article and infographic denouncing the ingredients used in the coffee drink. On August 8th, the "The Real PSL" Tumblr blog was launched, which highlights notable Pumpkin Spice Latte-related images.


Within two months, the feed gained over 93,500 followers. On August 4th, 2014 the "Pumpkin Spice Latte" Twitter feed was launched, which posts tweets written from the perspective of the coffee drink. Online, it is often mocked as a stereotypical drink consumed by "basic" white women. Since its introduction by the American global coffeehouse chain Starbucks in 2003 as a seasonal special product for the last quarter of each year, the coffee drink and other pumpkin spice-flavored products have enjoyed commercial success for over a decade. Pumpkin Spice Latte is an espresso coffee drink made with a variety of traditional fall spice flavors (usually cinnamon, nutmeg and clove), pumpkin pie spice and steamed milk.
