Brewer's Resonse to Starbucks Over Cease & Desist Order

[Ben]

A Brew Pub owner's response to a Starbucks attorney over the use of the word "Frappicino" (sic). Pretty funny.

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[AJ Dual]

The proper response to any threatened litigation from Starbucks is to offer to settle if they agree to add the breasts and nipples back to the mermaid logo.

[lupinus]

Gotta love free plubicity

[AZRedhawk44]

Frapuccino, being a trademarked, made-up word, I can see a suit over.

Brewery should rename the drink a Starbuck Stout, claiming affiliation to the first mate of Moby Dick, staunch steadfastedness in the face of adversity, dark like the North Atlantic with a head like Irish sea foam.

I was half-expecting Starbucks to sue Universal and SyFy over the BSG character name.

[lee n. field]

Frapuccino, being a trademarked, made-up word, I can see a suit over.

Brewery should rename the drink a Starbuck Stout, claiming affiliation to the first mate of Moby Dick, staunch steadfastedness in the face of adversity, dark like the North Atlantic with a head like Irish sea foam.

I was half-expecting Starbucks to sue Universal and SyFy over the BSG character name.

"Starbuck" is a family name, one that I actually have deep in my personal ancestral midden through my Mom's side.

[BlueStarLizzard]

In all honesty,

What the hell is a frappichino?

[lupinus]

In all honesty,

What the hell is a frappichino?

Expensive overpriced swill

[BlueStarLizzard]

Expensive overpriced swill

Bah. That's everything Starbucks sells.

Specifically, what the hell is it?

[Tallpine]

Bah. That's everything Starbucks sells.

Specifically, what the hell is it?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frap

 

[AZRedhawk44]

It's a (not terribly) fancy coffee milk drink, Liz.  Coffee, milk, some chocolate-ish sweetener, blended with ice, served cold.  Basically, think "Frappe" from the electric blender's control panel, mixed together with "capuccino."  You can buy a Starbucks Frapuccino at 7-11 in a bottle, but that will really just be a cold capuccino because it won't have the suspended icy bits.

No one would mistake it for a proper stout, that's for sure.

[Perd Hapley]

It's a (not terribly) fancy coffee milk drink, Liz.  Coffee, milk, some chocolate-ish sweetener, blended with ice, served cold.  Basically, think "Frappe" from the electric blender's control panel, mixed together with "capuccino."  You can buy a Starbucks Frapuccino at 7-11 in a bottle, but that will really just be a cold capuccino because it won't have the suspended icy bits.

No one would mistake it for a proper stout, that's for sure.

I don't speak Starbucks^TM very well (they're kinda sparse here), but I'm pretty sure it means "frozen cappuccino." As in, a Slushy^TM-type drink, that tastes like cappuccino.

So no chocolate, unless you ask for it.

The one time I actually visited a coffee shop in Seattle (not a Starbucks^TM), I had them make a new cappuccino for me, because I thought there was something wrong with it. The second one tasted just the same, and that was when I realized that the only thing wrong with cappuccino is that it tastes like coffee with milk, and no sugar. Yuck. I have the good sense not to order that anymore.

[zxcvbob]

In all honesty,

What the hell is a frappichino?

The fancy coffee drink that Derek Zoolander and his buddies were headed out to get when a tragic "freak gasoline-fight accident" occurred.   (it's a portmanteau of the words frappé and cappuccino)  I'm not sure, but think milkshake blended with a shot or two of espresso.

"Orange Mocha Frappuccinos!"  

[freakazoid]

It's delicious is what it is.

[Harold Tuttle]

this is the droid you seek

[BlueStarLizzard]

OK.

Got it.