I’ve given them 2 tries.
When I saw the advertisements EVERYWHERE around town, I was like, “Wow, Iced Coffee at a drive-thru, that is genius!” I mean Dunkin’ Donuts has been doing it for years, but as we all know, THERE ARE NO DUNKIN’ DONUTS IN CALIFORNIA!
Man I am going caps lock crazy today.
Anyway, the last time I went to the Target on La Cienega, I decided to give it a try. I drove up to the window, and ordered my Dunkin’ order, “Large iced coffee with just a little bit of milk.” I drove up, handed over the cash, and drove away with what looked like a Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee.
Wrong. There was some heavy-ass cream in this coffee, this was not milk. Wha Hoppen? I don’t know, but if 14 yr old girls at Dunkin’ Donuts can understand “just a little milk” I’d think a 30 something yr old.. never mind. Anyway, heavy cream.
But you have to understand, I need to be able to walk into work with a large iced coffee in a plastic cup with a straw sticking out the top. That will get me back into my game, back into the swing of things, head runner of the rat race, I don’t know. So I had to go back and try again. It was probably my fault right? In New England when you order a regular coffee, that means 5 scoops of sugar and 1/3rd cream. Maybe cream is the standard in LA, who knows?
My original plan was to specifically ask for “milk, not cream” as this would surely give them a heads up that I’m not mistaking milk for cream. Then I decided that I was on my way to the beach and I didn’t need to be sitting on the beach all “milk was a bad decision” ala Anchorman. I went black.
Now when you order a black coffee, you assume one of a few things. 1. This coffee is going to taste awful. 2. This coffee is really good and should be consumed without anything added. 3. This coffee is going to taste awful, but I’ll add my own ingredients.
When you order a large iced coffee black or with “no milk or cream” you do not get just the plain ol’ coffee on ice. No, you get a giant helping of corn syrup at the bottom of your cup, then ice, then coffee to fill up the rest of the cup. GROSS DUDE.
Let me say this, my desire to drive to work has not been squashed yet. I will have a full on conversation with the McDonalds drive-thru staff before pulling forward. I will tell them that I want nothing but coffee. I will take a sip of my coffee before pulling away, and if it does not taste up to par, I will park my car in that drive-thru until it is ok. Sure I could go to that Coffee Bean on Overland, but they put espresso in their iced coffees, and sometimes I get a little paranoid.
Coffee on ice, do it.
