Being a Starbucks barista is hard enough. I can't imagine having to deal with teens wanting an Instagramable drink, Uber Eats orders, and people wanting fifty different modifications to their latte.
Now, Starbucks employees are speaking out about a mysterious, "forbidden blue" drink that they've been asked to make recently and as you can imagine, they're annoyed with it.
I don't understand their need to document everything they do on social media. I don't understand the food "trends" that they get obsessed with. And, I sure as heck don't understand their need to prank fast-food employees.
Now, the coffee shop employees are opening up about the unusual drink request they've been getting lately, and it's a real head scratcher.
Speaking with Business Insider current and former baristas are saying the drinks have a few things in common —one, they all appear to share the same blue hue. two, they're not on the menu, and three, the blue color can't be achieved with any of the coffee shops usual ingredients.
The Starbucks workers told the publication that customers had asked them to make the blue drinks while showing TikTok videos of it.
Some coffee shop staffers speculated that the blue color came from Urnex, a cleaning fluid used on coffee-making equipment, or blue Gatorade.
"We are not aware of any incidents in which a customer was intentionally or unintentionally served one of these beverages."
"Tricked a bunch of girls that this is the new Starbucks drink," an Imgur user wrote in 2017. "It's actually just Gatorade lol."
Well, it's clear some people have just been trolling teens into ordering a "blue drink" but let it be known you shouldn't ever drink anything that's blue from Starbucks!
h/t: Business Insider
