Wherein I Declare My Love For My Favorite Holiday Beverage. November 5, 2009

I absolutely believe that every year media and retailers bombard us with Christmas stuff way too early.  Since Starbucks started using the holiday red cups on Tuesday, I have heard so many people complain about how it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet, and to top it off we are also playing Christmas music in the store.  It’s very subtle, I will be working and all of a sudden I will hear a Christmas song, then 30 minutes later I will hear another one.  Starbucks is sneaky in the way they plant thoughts of holidays in our heads.  With the early arrival of the red cups and the obnoxious Christmas music also comes the holiday beverages, gingerbread lattes, eggnog lattes, peppermint mochas and caramel apple spices, the last two of which most people don’t know we have year round.  See, Starbucks is sneaky.  But by far the best drink that we have is…wait for it…CHAI EGGNOG LATTES!!!  Dear God my mouth waters just typing the words.  When someone comes into my store and orders a regular chai tea latte, I ask them if they have ever had it with eggnog, and when I ask them my eyes get really big, almost like I am drug dealer only I am strung out on sweet delicious eggnog instead of crack.  It is quite possibly the best drink to ever touch my lips.  So good in fact that on the first day we had eggnog in the store I drank three of these delicious beverages.  Today I only had two, so I consider that an improvement.  The eggnog will be around until January, so I’m either going to need to learn how to control myself, or start running more than just three days a week.