Photo via drunken stepfather

I just saw a picture of a teen/tween drinking a Starbucks product, and it really confused me. When I was a tween, I didn't really know what coffee was. Sometimes I would see my parents drinking it, but then I would just ask the waiter for 'a glass of orange juice' or perhaps 'a soda.' Just kinda baffles me when I see 'young ppl drinking coffee' and think 'why would they ever want 2 try coffee'?

It seems like the 'Starbucks revolution' really opened the doors for tweens and coffee. It seems like they branded 'fun, sugary sweet drinks' for ppl who didn't 'get' coffee, or for ppl whose tastebuds weren't developed enough for coffee. Seems like people will like anything that tastes 'chocolatey' or possibly 'full of caramel.' Not sure who teens are 'trying to be' by drinking coffee? Why don't they embrace their youth and drink some thing like 'Sunny Delight', 'gogurts' or possibly 'Snapple.'

Is the Gogurt design a 'more innovative' design than the iPod?

Feel like tweens want to do what 'famous people do' and also appear to be 'grown ups' when they don't realize that they already have the attention of grownups since it is so easy to resent them 4 having their whole lives' ahead of them.

Seems like tween girls think they can 'seem older' by 'acting like sluts', 'dressing like sluts', 'being lil cunt sluts', and also drinking Starbucks coffee.

Not sure if parents realize how many calories some of those coffee drinks have in them. It could be a tween's entire caloric intake 4 the day. Worried about teen nutrition since I took a Health class at the local community college.

This 'frappy chino' product seems 'like a gimmick', like they are trying to 'rip off' the popular drink called 'the milkshake.'

Seriously feel like tweens might think Starbucks is 'an ice cream shop.'

There is also the theory which proposed that teens think that Starbucks is a 'chill place to have a study group' or possibly work on a group project.

When I was in college, I would meet an AZN exchange student at Starbucks and copy his answers in exchange for 'making him feel welcome in America' by inviting him to a few parties. I feel like I did more for him than he did 4 me.

I'll nvr forget the time I stayed up all nite to study for marketing. Such a hard class, yall! Avoid it at all costs.

Also seems like Starbucks might be a haven for Girls Nights Out, except for boring girls who aren't sluts/don't 'go out' to places to mate with bros.

Really don't understand Starbucks. Recently read that it is 'as popular as McDonalds' or something, and I am still trying to figure out why they would be successful if they don't sell hamburgers and lil nuggets. It seems like they have 'tricked people' into thinking that they are 'classy' and 'sophisticated' by drinking coffee.

Not sure if it would be more authentic to go to a local coffee house, but most of the time they employ failed alternative ppl who don't even know how to make coffee. It seems like Starbucks employees would have 'more training' or something, and probably employ people who think that they have a 'real job.'

Remember when Subway told all of their employees that they were 'sandwich artists' so they didn't feel so crappy about their jobs?

Seems like Starbucks employees think that they have 'a real job' bc they have 'benefits' and because they are making a 'gourmet product.' Wonder if they are right. Might get a job there when I am done with my communications degree.

Just honestly don't believe that a kid/tween/teen would ever naturally 'try' coffee, unless their abusive father made them drink it to see them suffer. Honestly don't believe young ppl's tastebuds are stimulated by the bitterness of coffee. Seriously think they should stick to 'sugary, corn syrup based drinks.'

How do u feel when u see tweens drinking coffee?
Have u ever been forced 2 go to starbucks for a 'study group'?
Is Starbucks 'corporate bullshit'?
Is Sbucks the 'perfect chain'?
What does coffee taste like?
What does beer taste like?
What is the most entry-level coffee drink order?
What is the most authentic thing I can order in a coffee shop?

ugh. g2g. my internship director needs some starbucks.

do u drink coffee? is starbucks 'mnstrm'?
Can some1 plz explain the Starbucks brand 2 me?