Everything is bigger in Texas, including orders at Starbucks

If you have visited Starbucks for your coffee then you are probably aware that their drinks come in a variety of sizes. The regular trifecta of tall, grande and venti – or small, medium and large in the English parlance – are plastered around menu-boards and are the most commonly known sizes. However if you are willing to go off the beaten track and enter the world of secret handshakes and ‘off menu’ orders, then you can request a couple more sizes such as the short (or very small) and the bladder busting 31oz trenta.

Well, just when you thought things couldn’t get any bigger this 128oz monster blows everything out of the water, and is apparently available for $55.

Ordered by a man who simply goes by the name of ‘Andrew’, this gargantuan beverage contains a whopping SIXTY espressos and a whole dollop of milk, an array of drizzles and some protein power. Not only is it the biggest drink purchased from a high street store we’ve seen, it also goes down as the most expensive Starbucks drink in history.

The drink was requested by Andrew in a Dallas branch of Starbucks and the baristas there appear to be in on the stunt, mainly thanks to Andrew’s honesty from the outset.

Previously, the costliest drink from the Seattle-based chain was the ‘Quadriginoctuple Frap’ which contained 40 espresso shots plus a load of other toppings and ingredients. That drink, concocted somewhere in Washington state, gained worldwide infamy through its accompanying YouTube video.

It appears that Andrew told the baristas at his local store about the feat and that he wanted ‘to beat [that] record.’

Not only beat it, but make something that was theoretically drinkable. (We say theoretically as nobody should ever drink 60 shots of espresso in a sitting, ever.)

As he said to the website the Consumerist: “The $47.30 guy put in two bananas, strawberry, matcha powder, pumpkin spice, and lots of other things that probably don’t go well together.” This monstrosity wasn’t to be a slapdash miscreation; it was to be something perfectly formed to gigantic proportions.

But gigantic probably doesn’t cover it. Caffeine Informer states the general caffeine content of a Starbucks espresso is 75mg, Andrew’s beverage contains in the region of 4,500mg/4.5g of caffeine which far exceeds the daily recommended limit of 400mg as set by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of America. To further put this figure into perspective, the figure of 4.5g also eclipses the fatal amount consumed by a number of people in well-documented caffeine related deaths. Like we said, nobody should drink that much caffeine that quickly.

But back to the price.

The drink might be the dearest beverages ever purchased in Starbucks but Andrew didn’t hand over a single cent for it. Instead he grabbed the monolithic milkshake for free by thanks to Starbucks’ Gold loyalty scheme which entitles members to a free drink after twelve purchases.

So he opted to create something big.

As they say, everything is bigger in Texas.

picture: ACIFH (Twitter)