If anyone wants to know the difference between the life of INFLUENCERS and the life of NORMAL PEOPLE, here’s your case study.
There’s apparently a trend of people taking carved out mini pumpkins to Starbucks, and having the baristas FILL THEM with the drink they order.
The idea is: Starbucks let’s people bring their own mug, so why not “celebrate fall” by using a hollowed-out pumpkin as a mug? (???)
Videos are popping up on social media of people trying this, and the results are MIXED. Some baristas have heard of the trend, and are willing to do it, some are even enthusiastic about it, and take photos themselves.
In other videos, the workers had NOT heard of it, and didn’t want to do it, so they just gave the customer an actual cup, and then the customer pours it into the pumpkin for the photo op, which is less fun.
And some commenters are asking people NOT to do this, because it slows everything down.
It doesn’t sound like Starbucks has an official policy. Some workers said that they aren’t supposed to touch the pumpkins themselves for food safety reasons, but are willing to pour the drink in for you.
In any event, if you want to try this, there’s nothing wrong with asking nicely to see if they’re cool with it.
There’s probably very little TASTE difference, it’s just something to do if you are willing to buy a pumpkin to use for a social media post.
(Here’s someone doing it, and another.)
@cowgirlseat Will @Starbucks put a PSL in my pumpkin?! 🎃 Ps I can’t remember the girl who I saw do this first. Pls tag her if you know her!!! I think it was Hellthy something? 🥺 #viralfood #starbucks #psl #coffeetok #autumn ♬ original sound – Amanda J
@thedailynelly They all took photos of it 🙈🎃🍂! We loved this fall trend! #pumpkin #pumpkinspicelatté #starbucks #pumpkinspice #falldrink ♬ Opalite – Taylor Swift
(This one didn’t quite work out.)
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