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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
I think that ghosts like / The cooler weather / When leaves turn colour / They get together — Hawksley Workman, Autumn's Here |
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At the local Starbucks they’ve been sampling the new trans-fat free Five Fruit and Banana Muffin.
Since I know the local baristas pretty well, and I was a bit confused I asked (quite innocently, I might add) “Is the Banana one of the five fruits, or is it in addition to the five fruits.”
It turns out it’s a more complicated question than it seems.
There are actually six fruits in the muffin. The banana is an additional fruit.
Dates, apricots and raisins are on the list of the original five. So are sesame seeds and pumpkin seeds.
Oh…and don’t forget the banana.
Yes. That’s right. Sesame seeds and pumpkin seeds are both fruits now. I’m not sure how this happened, but if Starbucks says it is so than it must be so.
Now let’s do some math. There’s five, and we need to take out two (both of the seeds, because I don’t care what Starbucks says I’m siding with botanical science.) That leaves us with three. Add one for the banana and we’re back up to four.
There’s no more fruit.
So, even by the most optimistic of estimates this thing falls one fruit short of being a five fruit muffin. I’m not sure where they got the name from — I like the aliteration of five fruit but it’s more or less the same as four fruit so that can’t be the reason.
It sure is a tasty little thing though.
Posted by skooter at 7:46 AM
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