Showing posts with label starbucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label starbucks. Show all posts

Friday, February 19, 2010

The Perfect 2:15 PM Snack:


The cookie is necessary for properly consuming all the cappuccino foam; the cappuccino is necessary for swishing the extra cookie bits out from the backs of your molars. Cinnamon crunch meets foamy delight. Everything is restored to its natural order.

Newsflash: Lucy's Sugar Cookies, Cinnamon Thins, and Oatmeal Cookies (gf of course) are ALL. Delicious. Oatmeal might be my favorite as they're just a little bit less sweet. Right now the Starbucks by me offers sugar & cinnamon options.

Oh, and NOTE: our(Anonymous but Totally Real) Glutenous Correspondent split a box of the oatmeals with me. She ate them with gusto.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Testing, testing.

Sign of a good snack: I ate it all before I photographed it.

Great news! Just back now from a lunchtime trip to Starbucks. I had to pick up some coffee for the office, which they will very nicely grind to your exact specifications (percolator? cone filter? paper filter or metal?) As per my usual modicum of Green Effort, I said, "No bag please." The gentleman behind the register looked me in the eye, and told me quite simply that I would require a bag.

"Have you ever been to the beach?" he asked me.

"What... do you mean?" I asked, wondering if my metaphors are ever so obtuse.

"You know how the sand gets into your bag, and you can never get it out?"

So today, Starbucks, I thank you two-fold. First, for the over-achiever level of customer service (I denied the bag, again, and carried it with my hand, which I believe is the function of that limb) and second, for the remarkable quality of your new, gluten-free product.

Lucy's Sugar Cookies: the package comes with four perfectly sized cookies, and, hurray! They taste good. Crumbly, but not in a bad way, crunchy, in an appropriate way, sweet, and even a little bit salty, and with no hint of the worst offense of a gf baked good: garbanzo. (Though it does contain bean-y flours.) I swear I don't like it just because it's there, and to prove it, I have just decided I need a glutenous correspondent.

Any takers?

Conclusion: $1.50, under 200 calories, convenient, and, dare I say, mouth-watering.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

THIS JUST IN!

via on-site investigation:


This is why I started the blog. A re-tweet on Twitter; a whisper of a rumor. I, your stealthy and industrious blogger, head out to investigate immediately.

OK, let's be honest: I needed a coffee. There is a low pressure front today that reminds me of Ireland, it's gray outside and the air is heavy. The only thing that will cure this bluesy feeling is a ... Starbucks soy latte.

So here's the dish: GF Cookies are back at Starbucks! AND granola. I must admit that due to budgetary and time constraints, I did not get back into the long line to sample these products.

YET. Be assured, I will. Until then:

Lucy's Sugar Cookies (Vegan, GF, Peanut Free)


Two Moms in the RAW Granola Bars

So far I can only guarantee their presence at the S-bucks on Broadway & Bond Street, SoHo, New York City. Tea timers and morning mad-dashers rejoice!