Starbucks Puts Calorie Info on Menus Nationwide, Ruins Caramel Frapps for Everyone

Starbucks is leading the calorie-conscious caffeine wave by adding nutrition information to all Starbucks menus nationwide starting June 25. The move comes after the FDA proposed a requirement that all restaurant chains with more than twenty locations post calorie counts on their menu boards and provide full nutritional information upon request. However, Starbucks decided to bite the bullet and expose the dirty calorie details regardless of the FDA’s decision. This is great news for health activists and people suffering through their summer diets, but really lousy news for all of us who’d really rather not know that our daily Frappuccino is singlehandedly supporting the sugar industry.

Come on, Starbucks. We’ve been gulping your caramel-drizzled concoctions for years, and never once did we have any illusion that what we were drinking was healthy. It’s indulgent, overpriced, and effing delicious — and that’s the whole point. If we wanted zero calorie, no sugar, low fat concoctions that taste like burnt coffee beans and disappointment, we’d make ourselves coffee in our own kitchens. But no. You had to save us from ourselves and print the cold, hard truth in black and white right there on the menu. We suppose our arteries (and our six packs) will thank us later, but we’ll be honest — we’ll probably just avoid looking at the menu for a while. At least until we’re better at living in denial.

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