The message: “Joy.” The image: a Christmas wreath.
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Or, for $99 (“slightly less than the cost of a venti frappucino”, according to Ellen), you can buy a pair of her new Starbucks holiday vision glasses: sunglasses adorned with snowflakes, a Santa hat and a snowman. As for the new cup, she joked, “Now, there’s just red”. Even Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has called for a Starbucks boycott.
Anger over the Starbucks holiday coffee apparently began when evangelical-conservative commentator Joshua Feuerstein posted a video imploring all Christians to give baristas the name “Merry Christmas” to force the chain into saying the phrase.
“So guess what Starbucks”, Feuerstein said. “But please, tell me more about how offensive this red cup is”. If you’ve been on social media in the in past week, you’ve nearly definitely seen someone at least tangentially refer to a “controversy” surrounding those cups. You may find that the holiday season is the ideal time to become a tea girl. “And we should stop wasting our time complaining about coffee cups that don’t acknowledge his birthday”, Heath wrote.
While the Starbucks situation has taken over social media, both with the hashtags #MerryChristmasStarbucks and #ItsJustaCup, the company has released a statement insisting that the design has nothing to do with taking a stance on the holiday season.
Included in its holiday-themed goodies is the snickerdoodle croissant.
Furthemore, the word Christmas is hardly banned at Starbucks. Thecaffeine purveyor’s 2015 annual blend drives home that point.
But now, the coffee company took a different approach in the design, and many viewed it as a movement against Christmas. Feuerstein’s prank suggested he meant the word Christmas literally. For the past few years, Starbucks’ Christmas cups showcased snowflakes as well as Christmas ornaments and scenes.
“You stab somebody and the newspapers say, ‘You didn’t do it.’ And you said, ‘Yes I did, I did it!'” said Trump.
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