If Starbucks' "The Brooklyn" Is Extra Sweet, Will "The Staten Island" Be Extra Acidic?
David Beckham named his kid after it. Why not Starbucks? And so it is, meet The Brooklyn, the newest thing to sip at everyone's least favorite McCoffeeshop, inspired by high school girls with too much free time.
So what are the special ingredients? Well, you take a vanilla bean frappuccino, and then add … more sugar. Sure, it's 40 cents more ($4.90 for a venti) and 20 more calories (620!) than your standard frapp, but there's celebrity factor: Denzel Washington and John Travolta reportedly sampled the bev while filming The Taking of Pelham 123.
Said Park Slope resident Tanya Mikula, who has nothing else to live for: "It’s the latest craze. Everyone’s talking about it."
Ah yes, The Booklyn: June 2008's plastic neon sunglasses.
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I eat 600 calories per day! In 3 o 4 meals! 'm on a VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet), but anyways!
I burn 1300 calories a day (without exersice). I wouldn't spend half of them in a frozen drink!