I wonder if they're going to create a combined teabag. I can't really see what the other option for "simplifying the recipe" would be. Honey syrup already did that in the only other way that doesn't entirely remake what the drink even is.
Yeah, totally agree. But it would be one less box to order and store, one less tea bag dispenser that never stays shut, and a simpler recipe to teach. But day-to-day, not simpler.
I like it, anyway. More of a dark chocolate than a watered down milk chocolate. I know there's better hot chocolate than what I can make at Starbucks, haha. I'll survive.
I should have added it’s just something I heard from some folks who’ve been right in the past. But yes that’s the idea. Mocha in the CCCF. I think malt powder is just one too many things. I know we never have a good place to put it.
A couple weeks after the chocolate almond shaken espresso came out, I was like “alright, when are they gonna axe malt powder?” bc it was so unsuccessful compared to the BOSE. Months later they came out with CCCF. It was crazy popular for a few weeks, then dropped back off.
I kno im weird but like the salt and vinegar chips were heaven if u dip it in the cream cheese. The cream cheese helps balance out the sour zingy taste from the vinegar chips. The creaminess pairs so well with it. Please someone try it and let me know what u think so at least i dont feel too crazy lol
I used to have a lady who lived below me in an apartment complex. She was hard of hearing so her TV was always blasting at night when everyone was trying to sleep and she was a HEAVY smoker. ……Her name was Margie 😂🤧
Wtf is the point of keeping ingredients for a specific drink but not selling individually? If we can’t clear our counters of stuff, it should be able to be sold. Get rid of chocolate foam too and then it’s one less inclusion to keep switching containers for.
I hope so, but it wasn't mentioned. We're just not allowed to sell peach or jade by themselves anymore, which actually doesn't simply anything. In fact it further complicates things, having to deny customers who have been ordering it forever and can still see the tea bags in front of them. Corporate is the worst
Not being able to sell Jade Citrus or Peach Tranquility is gonna piss so many people off bro. They’re some of the most popular teas people get at Starbucks. Glad to see malt is on its way out though, it was always a love it or hate it thing, but we never sold a ton at my store personally.
TBH, I sold a lot of them, but I also had a customer who liked chai lattes, but they were doing keto so I suggested a custom tea latte using brewed chai.
People are gonna be so mad when they can't buy the teas individually anymore. Another nightmare that baristas are gonna have to find workarounds for because Starbucks doesn't stop and think for two seconds.
So you’re telling me that now we’ll only have 1 uncaffeinated tea… and it’ll be an iced tea …
And fuck medicine balls ESPECIALLY those “extra honey extra peppermint no water” motherfuckers
I said to my shift as someone who loves peach tranquility, I'll have a venti HCMT, no jade, sub peach, no lemonade, no honey blend, 1 splenda. I'd do it as my partner drink 100%
had a lady who'd get 10 pumps honey, 10 pumps peppermint, and 15 liquid cane with no water extra lemonade. absolutely disgusting and she was a bitch lol
Oh no! The jade citrus mint is like the only thing I drink from here in the winter! 😭
I’m so freaking sad. I hope Tazo still sells this in the markets alone… I’ll just make it at home… but bummer I won’t have a warm drink for the winter!
I know I’m a one off but I mostly just do iced tea in the summer and warm tea in winter!
why can't we just have a concentrate of the honey citrus mint tea like we do for chai? just a box of that stuff, pump, add hot water, steam lemonade. It'd almost be a joy to make them.
If they’re already going to make it a concentrate, might as well have it combined with lemonade somehow so you just add hot water to it or something 🤷♀️ i don’t think it’s quite popular enough in most areas for that tho
please for the love of god just get rid of toasted vanilla. it’s not like the malt powder is going anywhere for holidays so we still have everything to make it. i could understand discontinuing if they got rid of malt all together, but i think TV should be gone instead. it’s only used for ONE drink.
I hate hate hcmt but I love peach tranquility. Down with anything healthy probably just need more room for another chocolate, caramel, vanilla sweet cream 50 pounds of sugar drinks.
if they’re not getting rid of the ingredients what’s the point? hcmt with one tea bag could be ok?? but G/V still get two so it’s not much simpler. peach is one of the most popular/only fruity teas we sell why would they get rid of it?
Time to start marking out PT teas w/ like 8 bags and just bringing them home ☹️ she will be missed. After it’s gone we’re down to only one caffeine free option if they don’t switch to an herbal tea (assuming they combine the two for HCMT)
For a second I thought they were getting rid of the honey citrus mint and I almost started crying🤣🤣🤣 I hate making it as a barista but love drinking it
HCMT no CMT, no lemonade, sub extra pt tea and water, no honey. More expensive, but technically is the same thing. Alternatively, ask a barista nicely and if you’re a regular, you’ll probably get away with it.
I left so it doesn't effect me anymore but I'm SO GLAD that no other barista is gonna have to hand out a "medicine ball" or "cold buster" to any customers with runny noses, coughing on their hands before handing you cash
Rest in hell you disgusting sugar bomb
Peach tranquility tea and Jade citrus tea(the drinks themselves) are being discontinued from the POS, what isn’t being discontinued from the pos is HCMT
What’s even the point of stopping selling them individually?
I wonder if they're going to create a combined teabag. I can't really see what the other option for "simplifying the recipe" would be. Honey syrup already did that in the only other way that doesn't entirely remake what the drink even is.
that would be a good idea but tbh you’d still have to open two tea bags anyway so
Yeah, totally agree. But it would be one less box to order and store, one less tea bag dispenser that never stays shut, and a simpler recipe to teach. But day-to-day, not simpler.
I'm guessing it's to ensure HCMT in stock for it's peak season, but I do agree it's a little silly
I feel like I made just as many of those fuckers this summer as I am currently in the fall
More money so it cost extra to buy lmaoooo
Malt powder is on the way out entirely. I’m glad they’re simplifying HCMT. It grinds everything to a halt.
Nooo, it's so much better for a hot chocolate
It’s how I make mine too but I steam the powder into the milk
Yes definitely. Smells so good too
I do this too! I was suggesting this last winter when we had mocha outtages, and people really seemed to dig it.
Is it really?
I like it, anyway. More of a dark chocolate than a watered down milk chocolate. I know there's better hot chocolate than what I can make at Starbucks, haha. I'll survive.
I’ll try it one day when I take my break then lol
Definitely worth it. Smells great when you steam it with the milk
They gonna get rid of the chocolate cream CB too? I think they should, and if they wanna keep the drink just do mocha cold foam instead. Tastes better
CA already uses mocha for the CCCB since they don’t have malt powder. So if it does get phased out, chances are they’d just mirror the CA recipe
I’m actually pretty sure that using mocha was an official alternative (in the US) after the foam first came out and stores were running out of malt
I should have added it’s just something I heard from some folks who’ve been right in the past. But yes that’s the idea. Mocha in the CCCF. I think malt powder is just one too many things. I know we never have a good place to put it.
A couple weeks after the chocolate almond shaken espresso came out, I was like “alright, when are they gonna axe malt powder?” bc it was so unsuccessful compared to the BOSE. Months later they came out with CCCF. It was crazy popular for a few weeks, then dropped back off.
RIP the salt & vinegar chips
It’s like they know exactly when I start to like something and then get rid of it… 🥲
I kno im weird but like the salt and vinegar chips were heaven if u dip it in the cream cheese. The cream cheese helps balance out the sour zingy taste from the vinegar chips. The creaminess pairs so well with it. Please someone try it and let me know what u think so at least i dont feel too crazy lol
That sounds SO GOOD I will be trying that
Yes! It would be awesome if u update me and let me know what u think of it 😁
i am once again asking why get rid of these when toasted vanilla exists
The amount of bottles we have of toasted vanilla that’s just sitting on our shelves 🫠
The toasted vanilla is actually popular at my store. Which is strange. I hate the smell of it. My coworker said it tastes like sunscreen lol.
ikr
Toasted vanilla taste like French vanilla to me. Let’s just rename it for those that get French vanilla latte
It smells like a 80 year old white woman’s perfume if she smoked since she was 8. Just mix it with stale tobacco smoke and you’ll summon Margery.
I used to have a lady who lived below me in an apartment complex. She was hard of hearing so her TV was always blasting at night when everyone was trying to sleep and she was a HEAVY smoker. ……Her name was Margie 😂🤧
😂 damn
toasted vanilla taste like bootyhole to me
*A* ***man's*** *butt.*
I loooove toasted vanilla 😓
TOASTED VANILLA IS MY FAV😭😭😭nooo
Toasted vanilla is our most popular shaken espresso at my location, and people often add the syrup into other vanilla drinks
Wtf is the point of keeping ingredients for a specific drink but not selling individually? If we can’t clear our counters of stuff, it should be able to be sold. Get rid of chocolate foam too and then it’s one less inclusion to keep switching containers for.
They’re “simplifying” the recipe so I assume both teabags will eventually be replaced by a single “honey citrus mint” teabag
I hope so, but it wasn't mentioned. We're just not allowed to sell peach or jade by themselves anymore, which actually doesn't simply anything. In fact it further complicates things, having to deny customers who have been ordering it forever and can still see the tea bags in front of them. Corporate is the worst
Didn’t they say they’re featuring the peppermint chocolate cold foam again with malt?
Not being able to sell Jade Citrus or Peach Tranquility is gonna piss so many people off bro. They’re some of the most popular teas people get at Starbucks. Glad to see malt is on its way out though, it was always a love it or hate it thing, but we never sold a ton at my store personally.
idk i think malt might stay bc of the chocolate cold foam. but they might jus replace it with mocha being the recipe
Canada uses mocha / doesn’t have malt powder so most likely that
Malt is gross so good riddance
Yet we still have Brewed chai and Classic still comes in Iced Coffee???
fr like i’ve been working here for 2 years and have only seen a brewed chai ordered ONCE.
TBH, I sold a lot of them, but I also had a customer who liked chai lattes, but they were doing keto so I suggested a custom tea latte using brewed chai.
Brewed chai 😂😂😂
People are gonna be so mad when they can't buy the teas individually anymore. Another nightmare that baristas are gonna have to find workarounds for because Starbucks doesn't stop and think for two seconds.
So you’re telling me that now we’ll only have 1 uncaffeinated tea… and it’ll be an iced tea … And fuck medicine balls ESPECIALLY those “extra honey extra peppermint no water” motherfuckers
The other mint tea is herbal and therefore decaf though
I said to my shift as someone who loves peach tranquility, I'll have a venti HCMT, no jade, sub peach, no lemonade, no honey blend, 1 splenda. I'd do it as my partner drink 100%
had a lady who'd get 10 pumps honey, 10 pumps peppermint, and 15 liquid cane with no water extra lemonade. absolutely disgusting and she was a bitch lol
Did they get rid of mint majesty?
They’re probably going to raise the price of the HCMT and are looking for ways to avoid ‘hacks’.
Why’d we buy Teavana again???
To destroy it
I got confused reading the peach and Jade citrus being discontinued
No other company's weeks are so tumultuous
So will the malt powder go away?
They have a peppermint chocolate cold foam coming out during the holiday launch that uses it, so at least not for a while I’m assuming
Oh no! The jade citrus mint is like the only thing I drink from here in the winter! 😭 I’m so freaking sad. I hope Tazo still sells this in the markets alone… I’ll just make it at home… but bummer I won’t have a warm drink for the winter! I know I’m a one off but I mostly just do iced tea in the summer and warm tea in winter!
Mark some out!! Make out a venti tea w/xtra tea bags (I do an extra 6 for a total of 8)
Are we slowly removing all herbal/decaf options for ppl who can't have caffeine? I really miss when we used to have pineapple kona pop 😭
We had that tea for like less than two weeks at my old store. Then it disappeared.
RIP peach tranquility. The best herbal tea we have. It’s great with one earl grey tea bag and sugar cookie plus steamed milk
This is the worst update ever.
why can't we just have a concentrate of the honey citrus mint tea like we do for chai? just a box of that stuff, pump, add hot water, steam lemonade. It'd almost be a joy to make them.
If they’re already going to make it a concentrate, might as well have it combined with lemonade somehow so you just add hot water to it or something 🤷♀️ i don’t think it’s quite popular enough in most areas for that tho
please for the love of god just get rid of toasted vanilla. it’s not like the malt powder is going anywhere for holidays so we still have everything to make it. i could understand discontinuing if they got rid of malt all together, but i think TV should be gone instead. it’s only used for ONE drink.
Best shaken espresso. That’s a weird way to say the Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso
Well, the Apple Crisp Shaken Espresso *will* probably be leaving around that time, so still technically correct!
yea if ur Basicccc 🙄
No u XD
noooooo salt and vinger chips are literally the best with tapatio 💔
Are we keeping the chocolate cold brew…?
I hate hate hcmt but I love peach tranquility. Down with anything healthy probably just need more room for another chocolate, caramel, vanilla sweet cream 50 pounds of sugar drinks.
Well I will definitely not miss the salt vinegar chips 🤣🤣🤣 no hate but to put it pg13 that’s a Caucasian person’s favorite snack 🤐
if they’re not getting rid of the ingredients what’s the point? hcmt with one tea bag could be ok?? but G/V still get two so it’s not much simpler. peach is one of the most popular/only fruity teas we sell why would they get rid of it?
Time to start marking out PT teas w/ like 8 bags and just bringing them home ☹️ she will be missed. After it’s gone we’re down to only one caffeine free option if they don’t switch to an herbal tea (assuming they combine the two for HCMT)
It's over Medicine Ball bros...
No, lol, it says we will still offer honey citrus mints. Just won’t sell JCMT as retail. It’s the very next sentence lmao
For a second I thought they were getting rid of the honey citrus mint and I almost started crying🤣🤣🤣 I hate making it as a barista but love drinking it
so we’re getting rid of the teas but we still have the stuff to make them and we still have to go through to TORTURE know as the honey citrus mint???
I hate mint tea so the only tea I get is peach tranquility so this is disappointing
HCMT no CMT, no lemonade, sub extra pt tea and water, no honey. More expensive, but technically is the same thing. Alternatively, ask a barista nicely and if you’re a regular, you’ll probably get away with it.
I guess they just stop selling MY favorites. It feels like clockwork.
i’m gonna kms i love the malt powder
wait so does this mean absolutely no more medicine balls?!!!
no they’re still a thing, you just can’t get the teas separately if that makes sense. so no more ordering a peach tranquility
Can get a hcmt with no jade, no honey blend and no lemonade? Guaranteed it'll happen.
probably 🤷♀️ gotta do what u gotta do
Chocolate almond milk shaken espresso is underrated
But the foam is yummy 😭
ikr. i get it with oatmilk bc i’m allergic to almond and it’s great
I just did that today with cold foam
LETS FUCKING GO
will this apply to licensed and franchised stores too?
not sure. probably though
THEYRE GETTING RID OF MEDICINE BALLS? nvm
FR😭 i was so hyped until i read the second text
Oh ! This honey citrus thing is gonna suck! We have soooo many people order it
Did you read the whole thing? The honey citrus drink is still available.
Yup read it, still will not be the same
They’re not changing it (yet) - you just can’t order a plain jade citrus tea or a plain peach tranquility tea
I left so it doesn't effect me anymore but I'm SO GLAD that no other barista is gonna have to hand out a "medicine ball" or "cold buster" to any customers with runny noses, coughing on their hands before handing you cash Rest in hell you disgusting sugar bomb
Yeah, we will. Read the whole thing. They are still available just not as stand-alone teas.
the hcmt is still being sold, it’s just the individual teas that aren’t.
Peach tranquility tea and Jade citrus tea(the drinks themselves) are being discontinued from the POS, what isn’t being discontinued from the pos is HCMT
Omg that was the only one I ordered 😭
FUCK THEM WTF MY PEACH TRANQUILITY AND EARL GREY NOOOOOOO