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Dec. 2nd, 2012 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sherryillkGot my first free reward from Starbucks...
I know I said once they changed their rewards program that I would stop going there as often but then they ran several sale promotions and I can't resist a good deal, especially when it comes to Starbucks so I ended up going there some more and wouldn't you know it, I managed to get to 12 stars even after I reached my gold status.
So I went and got my usual soy toffee nut latte with caramel drizzle. The annoying part of it is that normally I got to a licensed store and licensed stores don't typically honor the rewards program so I had to go to the company store over by the Marina. And I've only been there twice before so I forget how freaking far away it is. I mean, geez, we're a small town and it's on the other side of town (I live on one end, it's on the other sort of thing) so it's like I drive and drive and I never get there.
But I went and I got my free reward and I didn't let it expire. Yay. It was delicious. Better than Starbucks generally is. Which is nice. It was slightly too sweet but thats okay. But I got myself a venti which is huge and I can never finish it while it's still hot or even warm and I realized something... When a soy latte is cold, you can really taste the soy. I've never had a soy latte taste so strongly of soy before outside of adding soy nectar to my morning coffee (it's actually really high quality soy nectar with organic non-GMO soybeans made local by a small tofu store in Portland) and while it's different, I can't say it's bad either. It's actually quite nice, as nice as cold coffee can be.
And now I've used up one of my free rewards. I also have a birthday reward set to expire at the end of the month. Driving out of my way for a free drink is something I'm not keen on doing again. But I know I have to. :\
I know I said once they changed their rewards program that I would stop going there as often but then they ran several sale promotions and I can't resist a good deal, especially when it comes to Starbucks so I ended up going there some more and wouldn't you know it, I managed to get to 12 stars even after I reached my gold status.
So I went and got my usual soy toffee nut latte with caramel drizzle. The annoying part of it is that normally I got to a licensed store and licensed stores don't typically honor the rewards program so I had to go to the company store over by the Marina. And I've only been there twice before so I forget how freaking far away it is. I mean, geez, we're a small town and it's on the other side of town (I live on one end, it's on the other sort of thing) so it's like I drive and drive and I never get there.
But I went and I got my free reward and I didn't let it expire. Yay. It was delicious. Better than Starbucks generally is. Which is nice. It was slightly too sweet but thats okay. But I got myself a venti which is huge and I can never finish it while it's still hot or even warm and I realized something... When a soy latte is cold, you can really taste the soy. I've never had a soy latte taste so strongly of soy before outside of adding soy nectar to my morning coffee (it's actually really high quality soy nectar with organic non-GMO soybeans made local by a small tofu store in Portland) and while it's different, I can't say it's bad either. It's actually quite nice, as nice as cold coffee can be.
And now I've used up one of my free rewards. I also have a birthday reward set to expire at the end of the month. Driving out of my way for a free drink is something I'm not keen on doing again. But I know I have to. :\
