The Grande Fat Free Sugar Free Carmel Macchiato Lie
For those of you (like me) who THINK that you are really getting a sugar free product…think again…not if they put the “carmel drizzle” into the mix which of course is what makes it a “Carmel” Macchiato! Thank goodness this is just an every other month or so extravaganza for me! The “Non Fat Yogurt” episode of Seinfeld (Season 5, Episode 7) comes to mind! Remember, that episode? Hilarious…Kramer invests in the Non Fat Yogurt store that Jerry and Elaine go crazy eating because it’s no fat right? They start gaining weight and it turns out the yogurt really isn’t? It’s ONLY FUNNY if it’s happening to Jerry & Elaine LOL
The “Fat Free Sugar Free Carmel Macchiato” actually has 12 grams of sugar in it because of the drizzle. Hmmm that isn’t “sugar free” at all then is it? I got this from the Starbucks lady today! How many Starbucks people never told me this? I was at the Kroger shopping and I spied the Starbucks and thought to myself “you don’t do this often and it will make your miserable shopping trip more enjoyable”. I actually had a 5 spot on me and so I step up to the counter and feeling pretty guiltless I announce to the lady that I wish to have a “Grande Fat Free Sugar Free Carmel Macchiato”. She looks at me as if I’m really bothering her (which annoys me slightly)and asks me “do you want the drizzle?” Drizzle? What is “the drizzle”? I don’t make Carmel Macchiato’s for a living so I don’t know what goes in the cup? I just know I love it and it tastes good! Shoot they always give it too me with a lid on it…I wasn’t even aware there was a “drizzle” LOL. I could probably guess that carmel is in it somewhere but to my thinking it must be “sugar free” whatever it is. To my question she says “Ya, the CARMEL drizzle (like I’m an idiot) …do you want it?” Now of course I think this is a pretty stupid question UNLESS… I looked at her and a little skeptically ask… “is it sugar free?” Again with “the look”, she answers me…NO! OMG what if I was a diabetic? OK now I usually try to be nice to people and it’s becoming increasingly hard to not give her the rolling eyes conversation and show her just how sarcastic and bitchy I can also be but instead I politely decline “the drizzle”. That’s when she point blank tells me in the future then what I want to order is a “Grande Skinny Vanilla Latte”. So…if you think (like me) that a Grande Fat Free Sugar Free Carmel Macchiato is actually a sugar free product…think again! Not only is it NOT…it doesn’t even exist!
