But they don’t have “Merry Christmas, ‘ they have ‘Joy.’ But I think they should put ‘Merry Christmas” on. 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.
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“The mainstream media and the Left love their outrage machine where they claim the world is ending because any number of tiny people have expressed hurt feelings on social media”. Meanwhile, Starbucks has been receiving flak for its plain red Christmas cup design – a move that a few have criticized as a “war on Christmas”.
Starbucks has been under fire by many conservatives for changing their annual Christmas cup design. He also encouraged users to give their name as “Merry Christmas” while ordering to “trick” Starbucks baristas into saying the greeting.
Fox News reports said a few customers suspect that Dunkin’ Donuts is taking a jab at Starbucks. Feuerstein asked. “That’s why they’re just plain red”. “That I can tell you”.
“Maybe we should boycott Starbucks”, he said. “No more Merry Christmas on Starbucks”, Trump told a capacity crowd of thousands gathered to hear him speak at a rally ahead of Tuesday night’s Republican debate. I don’t know. Seriously.
Trump, who is trying to attract evangelical support, threatened to retaliate by ending the lease of a Godless Starbucks in one of his buildings because he was so offended. “It was depth”, Jeffrey Fields, Starbucks vice president of Design + Content, explained.
In the past, Starbucks has featured secular but holiday-oriented images-like a snowflake or ice skates-to make their red cups a little more festive.
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Since 1997, we have served our holiday beverages in a unique red cup, each year and each design telling a different story. Should it matter what a coffee house does with its cups at the holidays? Every year since, the cup has told a story of the holidays by featuring symbols of the season from vintage ornaments and hand-drawn reindeer to modern vector-illustrated characters.
