If you want to make it palatable, mix in your whipped cream to the drink to give it some flavor. If this is your favorite Starbucks drink you’re probably like a child - basic as f*ck.ĭon’t let the little black granules of vanilla bean fool you, you have to strain your taste buds (is that a thing?) to taste anything other than milk here. It’s clearly designed to satiate the children of the parents that can’t function without their morning Starbucks run. It’s more icy than creamy, tasting like little more than sweetened ice. There is just nothing here, no flavors to grasp on to, sure it’s called a “Vanilla Bean Crème,” but it doesn’t give you much vanilla. Here is what’s worth your money and what isn’t.Īhh the Vanilla Bean Crème, a drink that by all measures is explicitly for kids. It’s not as bad as the redundant and bloated menu of iced coffee drinks that they have, but nearly half of these could leave the menu and you wouldn’t miss them. We suffered a lot of brain freeze to put this article together and our big takeaway is this - Starbucks has too many fucking Frappuccinos. So to celebrate the drink that turned Starbucks into the global icon it is today, we decided to order every single Frappuccino on the menu and rank and review them from least essential to best tasting. That’s pretty astounding when you consider that in ’95 Starbucks had two flavors - Mocha, and Coffee. Ask for a ‘”Frappuccino” and every barista is going to know what you’re asking for, even if they call their drink by another name.ĭuring the Frappuccino’s inaugural week of wide distribution, 200,000 drinks were sold. But here in 2022, the word “Frappuccino’” has essentially become shorthand for any icey blended coffee drink at any coffee shop. In fact, they didn’t even name it - they took the name from The Coffee Connection, a Boston coffee house that Starbucks acquired in the ‘90s. Starbucks didn’t invent the blended coffee drink. It has spawned more spin-offs and imitators than any fast food invention ever. By ’95 the whole nation was sucking the icy, sugary-as-shit drinks down. By the next year, a whole district of SoCal Starbucks were making it. 29 years ago, Starbucks first blended coffee beverage was tested at a single store in LA’s San Fernando Valley.
The Starbucks Frappuccino is almost at the age where it’s ready for an existential crisis - closing in on 30 years old.
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