You’ve heard the rumors about it. Finally a Starbucks Press Release sighting occurred, and now the Unicorn Frappuccino is here for only a few days!
While I’ve seen the teaser pictures and thought it looked quite magical, the description Starbucks gave sounded gross! According to the Starbucks site, “The Unicorn Frappuccino blended crème is made with a sweet dusting of pink powder, blended into a crème Frappuccino with mango syrup and layered with a pleasantly sour blue drizzle. It is finished with vanilla whipped cream and a sprinkle of sweet pink and sour blue powder topping.” Wait, WHAT?? Mango, sour blue? What were you smoking when you created this?
I was reluctant, but I headed to Starbucks to snag a drink, worrying if I should order a second drink in case I hated it. I felt odd ordering it, especially since the people in front of me who had ordered it were two young girls, who looked no older than 5, with their mom, who got a more normal drink. NBD, I’m just (almost) 29 ordering a drink the 5 year old in front of me just ordered. Don’t mind me.
It IS pretty, but don’t accept the press release pictures from the Bux itself as word… the drink is not THAT hot pink.
In true Starbucks fashion, they misspelled my name as “Christen.” First of all, I’ve NEVER met a Kristin spelled with a CH, so if they exist, they’re more rare than a unicorn, so why do I get this spelling more often than spelling my actual name correctly?
As I’m walking out, I have an urge to tell anyone who I pass “This is merely because I’m in radio.” Why am I so embarrassed about this drink?
It smells good… so maybe it’s not so bad?
I finally get back to work and put the straw in, take a deep breath, and take a gulp. Hmm. Not bad. It’s fruity. Another sip, and I start trying to compare it to relatable things. I told our Promotions guy, Marris, that it tastes like a blue Sour Patch Kid in a Mango smoothie. It’s weird. It shouldn’t work, but it does. I’ve been attempting to lay off the sugar in the last few months, so anything with sugar in it my body goes “MIIIIIIIIINNNNNEEE!!” and I quickly find myself with only half the drink left. Wow, it is really good! But as I’m looking at it, I’m like, this has GOT to be like 1,000 calories. A quick check of Starbucks’ site shows me that for the Grande I got, it’s only 410 calories. While not a drink I’d get on a regular basis calorie-wise, it’s way better than I thought. I mean 59g of sugar (almost 14 tbsp) isn’t great, but it could be worse, too.
It brightened up my day, so I’m giving this a thumbs… or…horns up! I didn’t believe in the unicorn, and I was wrong.
