I had to drive a few hundred kilometres, so I figured I might as well drive a little bit extra out of the way to go to a Starbucks location with the nitro cold brew on tap and it was totally worth it. They take their cold brew and infuse it with nitrogen and it is then dispensed from a shiny metal tap.
As it’s poured, it shares a look that is similar to Guinness, and the texture is not altogether different either. This would undoubtedly be delicious with an added scoop of vanilla ice cream—a sort of cold brew twist on the Affogato—but it tastes great by itself and Starbucks offers numerous alternative ways it can be served, including with cascara cold foam, topped with a chocolate spray, or with a vanilla sweet cream.
I had never seen a person under the age of 40 working at a Starbucks before today, but the woman working the cash register was probably in her sixties and it gave me hope that I could perhaps realize my dream of one day working at S-bucks. My life so far has been an unending parade of unfulfilled dreams, beginning in my twenties when I thought I could be a male model. People back then would always say, “No offence, but don’t you have to be kind of handsome to be a male model?” Then I’d get mad and be like, “NOT IF YOU MODEL SOCKS!”
But it turns out I couldn’t hack it in the cutthroat world of male sock modelling—although, sometimes when I put my socks on in the morning, I pretend that I am one of those famous international sock models and my lips curl into a wry smile.
But working at S-Bucks is a dream I might actually be able to realistically attain. Would I be a bit older than most of my coworkers? Yeah, sure. But I think I’d do a great job and over time my coworkers would realize that I can do the job every bit as well as they can.
I imagine customer interactions with me going a bit like this:
Me: Hey Jimmy! You having the usual?
Customer: I’ve never seen you before in my life; moreover, I’m a woman.
Me: My bad. I have trouble remembering names, recognizing age and gender, and pretty much struggle with anything that is at all relevant when working in customer service. But I guess that's what everyone says happens after you do back-to-back tours of duty in Afghanistan, right?
Customer: Literally no one has ever said that.
Me: Fair enough.
Probably they’d keep me away from the customers after that and I could then spend my workdays pouring myself cold and tall glasses of nitro cold brew straight from the tap. After twenty years maybe I’d even retire with a pension. But regardless of whether this dream will ever come true or not, the NCB will remain my favourite drink at Starbucks---it’s great either by itself or with the sweet cream. Go for it!
Verdict: If you like Guinness, get the Nitro Cold Brew.
Score: 10 Stars and 10 Bucks out of ten. (WHAT???)
I was just considering today that maybe I should work at Starbucks! Probably for other reasons though. Still, I thought it would be fun to learn how to use all the coffee machines and also to create all those drinks (because it is so complicated there are a lot of pumps!) And then I thought maybe I could get some free drinks too because I would be working there... Would have been nice.
ReplyDeleteI don't even like Guinness but I like Nitro cold brew. So Nitro cold brew is definitely worth it.
By the way, you don't have to be handsome to be a hand model either. If your thumb is beautiful, for example, then even if that is the only part of your body that's nice, you can still be a (hand) model. And pose with thumbs up for magazines.
That's a good point about being a hand model. I'm not sure how handsome my thumb is---I have never been complimented on it, but I'm pretty sure a lot of that is due to jealousy.
ReplyDeleteWorking at Starbucks seems like a pretty good job to me, but maybe it's like they say: the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Although I'm reasonably sure in the case of sock and/or hand modelling, the grass really is greener on that side of the fence, so maybe it is like that with Starbucks too.