Packets of StarbucksLanguage
Dan tells a tale of his helplessness in the face of the evolution of language at Starbucks, where whole thoughts like “Would you like for me to leave room in your coffee cup so you can put cream in it also?” are reduced to “Room-for-cream?” Of course, this is nothing new in food retail—anyone wishing to order fast food in Boston must first decode “fuh-heah-tuhgo?”