Based on my experience, it should be possible to accurately derive the outside air temperature in a particular city by measuring the ratio of hot drinks to frappuccinos ordered inside. Pointless? Completely.
-- DIYMatt, Jul 20 2011

I'm more interested in how they get the coffee so hot without it actually boiling in the cup as I'm trying to drink it, it's not like the air pressure in the store is that much greater,

Unless I missed those pressure doors and the slight case of the bends on the way out...
-- not_morrison_rm, Jul 20 2011


Hmm, might be interesting - however, it's next to impossible to get a sugar-free crushed-ice coffee without first producing a series of poster-sized communication aids (and possibly a short promotional film) stating that yes, you'd like an iced coffee, but no, not made out of that sickly sugar-rich syrup that passes for coffee/flavouring in your globally homogenous over-priced menu, you bastards.
-- zen_tom, Jul 20 2011


^^that would be because of all the people who say "iced coffee" when they mean "sickly sugar-rich syrup that passes for coffee"
-- DIYMatt, Jul 21 2011


//poster-sized communication aids// Or an English-Starbucks phrasebook.

//not made out of that sickly sugar-rich syrup that passes for coffee/flavouring in your globally homogenous over-priced menu, you bastards//

in Starbucks is

"No Classic"
-- mouseposture, Jul 21 2011


So not a liquid-crystal thermometer stuck to the inside of the cup? I'm disappointed.
-- phundug, Jul 21 2011



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