Starbucks the New McDonald's

Via Seth Godin:

If you thought you were being nutritionally virtuous by stopping at Starbucks instead of McDonald’s, the Center for Science in the Public Interest says, "Wrong!”

A venti – or 20-ounce – Caffè Mocha with whipped cream has 490 calories, equivalent to a Quarter Pounder with cheese. And a 24-ounce Java Chip Frappuccino with whipped cream has 650 calories, not to mention almost an entire day’s allowance of saturated fat.

According to the center, a nutritional advocacy group, the Frappuccino is equivalent in calories to a McDonald’s coffee plus 11 of their creamers and 29 packets of sugar.

(Source)

Whoa! That’s a lot of calories and sugar. I don’t drink coffee, so I couldn’t care less, but the comparison with McDonald’s cracks me up.

No wonder Foamy gets all worked up about Starschmucks in Coffee House Propaganda and Small, Medium, Large—it’s the sugar talking (warning: strong language)!