I think the real question here is how much Starbucks paid for this advertisement to be displayed like a news article.

$47 and some change.... Didn't you read the thing? lol

quad - ri- gin - oct - uple

The dumbed-down generation enters journalism. zzzzzzzzz

I'm glad he didn't drink it all at once. Those 48 shots of espresso sound like a dangerously high amount of caffeine.

You need hooked on phonics then ;-)

I thought that was the name of an album by The Who???

How many calories in that sucker!

Oceanic 815: The Who's album was Quadrophenia. Much easier to pronounce, and very likely to have an effect on the nervous system if played loudly, much like the drink must have with all that caffeine. To listen to one while drinking the other would likely have an interesting effect. If you should happen try them both at once, and survive, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

Alan Pugh said:

I think the real question here is how much Starbucks paid for this advertisement to be displayed like a news article.

I think the real question here is how much Starbucks paid for this news article to be displayed like an advertisement.

2 bucks for 2 bananas? I can get 3-4 lbs for that price. Starbucks sucks and all the yuppies get off on spending a wasteful amount of money on that crap. How many starbucks drinkers complain about the price of gas?

A quadrig-in-octuple would be a group of 4 (quadrig) of 8 (octuple). That's not 48 but 4*8 or 32. The correct term woudl be a quadrig-duodecuple (4 of 12) or 4*12 = 48. just sayin.

Oh, and 48 shots would be about a third of the way to death according to for a 175 pound person.

I wonder how long it's going to take for a moron like this to drop dead of a heart attack right in front of Starbucks. Remember the guy who did so after eating a quadruple bypass giant cheeseburger???

Sounds rather nasty. I would not pay1 cent for the witches brew.

Jay-215067, you almost made me choke on my lunch laughing.

The best part of the story was that the guy went in to have a little fun on his birthday, perfectly willing to spend $50.00 on a coffee and had an enjoyable experience at Starbucks doing it.

THAT says a lot about Starbucks and how the people who work for the company treat their customers.

Although most are not paid much more than minimum wage, they still treat their customers very well and make a retail experience enjoyable.

(No, I don't work for Starbucks, I just happened to notice when a customer praises a retail establishment.)

Not sure if this was the case, but if you register a gift card on their website, they'll give you a free drink of your choice on your birthday. I get one every year! But I usually just get something off the menu.

It truly must be a slow news day, when NBC runs a "story" like this on the front page. As to Zucker, he's busy rearranging the chairs on the Titanic Network (aka CNN).

It's a TODAY show story guys. It's supposed to be light and humorous news.

What is so funny about throwing that much away on a coffee? I find it offensive and borderline obscene to flaunt waste so...

Sadly, people DO have the right to waste their money on $47 cups of coffee, $100 rhinestone collars for their cats, or $300 hamburgers covered with edible real gold foil. Later, they complain about the government "wasting their money". And why do millions of us turn athletes or mediocre singers into millionaires, while at the same time balking at giving raises to people like teachers?

Thank you Hans for one of the more intelligent posts today.

lol, I tried to read that really fast and it worked.

I would have the shakes so bad after 48 shots. Granted he said he drank if over several days but still....

Over several days....without sleep.

Howie, that is awesome. I couln't really comprehend until I actually tried to read it really fast.

Umm, you misspelled it. Caught me up on stsopdrinkingit instead of stopdrinkingit..

Sorry, my spell-checker must have been asleep! :-)

Your loss, our gain. Actually, mh is slop...

dunkin donuts ... any-day over any of them, natural spring water for the best cup.

Or even 7-11. I mean c'mon:

I drink coffee for the caffiene

I drink beer for the alcohol

I smoke pot for the thc

Good Lord, I am a mess

Oh. Non-alcoholic shots. Nevermind.

Then why did you read and comment. Obviously nothing better to do.

lisa, he was trying to get a meaningless comment to his meaningless post, and you complied. Score 1 for toastedrebel!

"Obviously nothing better to do." That goes for all of us here.

Probably so after this... especially if a buncha idiots follow this guy

Way to turn a story about a record coffee drink into a political statement.

Perhaps the poor Ethiopian coffee farmers should switch to a different crop or move to where the food is.

I thought Starbucks buys/uses Fair Trade coffee anyway?

Nick,

What are you trying to say? Because the Ethiopian farmer is dirt poor (no fault of ours), we should suffer along with him ...must be kumbaya time. Me, I'll take a Bud.

They do Todd.... some people, like ol nic here, just can't help themselves from finding a political spin on everyday life.

It's Bush's fault!

Uhhh... Coffee is a narcotic? I don't think so. Caffeine as a drug, sure, but narcotic? If your coffee is making you sleepy I think you might want to check the ingredient list again.

You're right about Fair Trade keeping farmers poor though. Todd and Logic would like you to believe that just because the manipulated market prices keep coffee low that it should be fair for everyone... but it's not.

Hey, he got it for free, so who's the sucker?

Anybody that buys that crap!

I take it you don't like Starbucks coffee. Personally, I like most of the blends I've tried there. But their prices *are* terrible (especially for the espresso drinks)! But this guy got it for free, so you can hardly call *him* a sucker.

The U.S. Congress works?

No, I don't think the woolly mammoth would be brought down by this.

However, the mammoth would run really, really, really fast for three days straight, ending up in Panama wondering how it ever got there.

Reading comprehension will add a lot to your life.

Third paragraph (eighth line of the article):

"While the drink totaled nearly $50, he didn't actually pay for it. Starbucks gave it to him for free because it was his 27th birthday."

The article states that it was his free birthday coffee.

How do you know he doesn't? You read one article on one thing about this guy and start spewing. Maybe instead of reading these articles and commenting you should go volunteer and be useful in life.

You don't know about his life, who he is and what he does. Make a judgement on the action not on the person. Just like I'm judging your comment to be not well thought through. Am I telling you to get off the computer and go get a job? Of course not, I don't know you.

"Forty-eight shots of espresso..."

I'm pretty sure they use one ounce shots. Even at 1/2 oz shots the drink is almost half espresso. 24 to 48 ounces of espresso in a 52 ounce drink? I'm sure he could taste the coffee. Probably for days!

AvianoMax,

"I'm sure he could taste the coffee. Probably for days!"

Real coffee connoisseurs love the flavor of coffee itself. That's why they buy coffee beans and grind them themselves to get the freshest flavor instead of using instant coffee or even pre-ground coffee. Now when you start adding a bunch of crap to it like bananas, and two whole bananas at that, and vanilla, etc. you are going inevitably to mask the flavor of the coffee itself.

Guys,

It's Starbucks coffee...you know, that burnt tasting stuff you HAVE to add things to to make it palatable. Drinking it straight is like drinking out of a spitoon (not that I ever did).