Strawberry Refresher with Coconut milk: delicious but way too sweet

TV makes being a teenage girl look pretty awesome. They’re always doing fun things like having slumber parties, talking with their bffs on the phone, and losing their virginity on prom night. And if you see one with a beverage in hand, you can bet it’s pink, frothy, and almost certainly delicious.  With that in mind, I decided to infiltrate the not-so-secret world of the American teenage girl and I ordered a tall Strawberry Refresher with Coconut Milk, also affectionately known as “The Pink Drink."   

This beverage is cold and, yes, pink, with small bits of strawberry floating on top of several layers of ice cubes, and it tastes a bit like how I imagine the drinks you’d get at a tropical resort would taste. It was delicious but way too sweet.  The sweetness is next level, in fact. 

Now I will say one thing about walking around a suburban strip mall while holding this drink in my hand: it was liberating. When you’re a middle-aged guy, society imposes a lot of expectations upon what you can and can’t do and you sure as hell can’t drink a frothy pink beverage. But today I did, and I felt suddenly alive. Now probably the masculinity of some guys would be too fragile to even consider having such a drink, and honestly I feel sorry for such men. Admittedly, my masculinity is probably way more fragile than all of those guys, but I’m willing to suck it up (so to speak) and drink this pink drink to ensure that my blog is the most comprehensive Starbucks blog on the internet.  

So what can we say about this drink? S-bucks says the following: It’s a fruity and refreshing sip of spring, no matter what time of year.

I’m starting to get a bit angry at whoever writes these descriptions.  Whoever wrote it obviously did not grow up in a tough neighborhood and probably does stuff like refer to drinks as “concoctions."  I will say, however, that once one gets over the overwhelming sweetness, the flavors themselves are delicious and the coconut milk perfectly complements the strawberry flavor.  If it were unsweetened, I assume this drink would be excellent.  I do not know if one could get an unsweetened version, but even if I could, I would not buy it again: my masculinity is too fragile.

Verdict: Delicious and delightfully pink, but way too sweet for me; not really like a fruity sip of spring (unfortunately).

Score: 4.5 Stars and Five Bucks out of ten.