Guide to being vegan at Starbucks

karichelle · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:54 pm

Mocha sauce at Starbucks is vegan as far as I am aware.

quark · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:31 am **Posts:** 642

Every source I've seen says the soy mocha is okay. I think you may have encountered a renegade barista:)

paprikapapaya · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:07 pm

It's definitely vegan. It's in the hot cocoa, which is vegan when made soy/nowhip/nodrizzle.

lavawitch · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:38 pm

quark wrote:

Every source I've seen says the soy mocha is okay. I think you may have encountered a renegade barista:)

I'll double check. The barista I always see in the morning is usually really great about helping suss out the veganness of things and suggesting alternatives. It could have been a different reason.

j-dub · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:17 pm

paprikapapaya wrote:

It's definitely vegan. It's in the hot cocoa, which is vegan when made soy/nowhip/nodrizzle.

Just a heads up that the choco drizzle is vegan, it's just the mocha syrup in a squeeze bottle.

bodhi · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:50 pm

Mocha sauce is vegan, including the drizzle. (I work for Starbucks.)

almiratanner · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:44 pm

bodhi, do you know if the sugar free mocha sauce is also vegan?

quark · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:31 am **Posts:** 642

Who's got the word on the new Hazelnut Macchiato? It's described as "freshly steamed milk with vanilla syrup, marked with espresso and finished with hazelnut drizzle." So I think the only questionable thing is the drizzle? If you put it in the calculator here with soy milk it comes up with 0 mg cholesterol, so I'm hopeful.

ndpittman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:37 pm

Ha! I was just wondering about this, too! But then I always just get my soy misto and move on.

mumbles · **Joined:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:53 pm **Posts:** 2667

Important update, you guys: the record for most expensive Starbucks drink has been shattered.

Quadriginoctuple Frap - $47.30

quark · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:31 am **Posts:** 642

Ha. I now feel much better about how much I spend at Starbucks.... As I sit drinking an overpriced soy green tea latte at Starbucks.

Fee · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:57 pm

Now I'm kind of T.O.ed that I went to Starbucks on my birthday BECAUSE it was my birthday and my drink wasn't free. crassholes.

bodhi · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:15 pm

almiratanner wrote:

bodhi, do you know if the sugar free mocha sauce is also vegan?

Oooops, I never saw this! Yes, it is.

ndpittman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:43 pm

bodhi wrote:

almiratanner wrote:

bodhi, do you know if the sugar free mocha sauce is also vegan?

Oooops, I never saw this! Yes, it is.

SWEET!

ETA: Is it good?

quark · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:31 am **Posts:** 642

ndpittman wrote:

bodhi wrote:

almiratanner wrote:

bodhi, do you know if the sugar free mocha sauce is also vegan?

Oooops, I never saw this! Yes, it is.

SWEET!

ETA: Is it good?

My first thought was "Oh good, a lower calorie mocha" followed immediately by "It's probably gross...."

bodhi · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:49 pm

If you are already used to the flavour of sugar-free items, you'll probably like it. It's not gross, though it does have a splenda-y aftertaste. I don't like syrup in my drinks in the first place though, so I'm not necessarily the best person to judge the flavour.

almiratanner · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:34 pm

I think it's alright.... but I don't hate all things sugar-free. I would get it in the peppermint mocha and I think there's enough other stuff going on for it to not be too obvious.

Amy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:42 am

quark wrote:

Who's got the word on the new Hazelnut Macchiato? It's described as "freshly steamed milk with vanilla syrup, marked with espresso and finished with hazelnut drizzle." So I think the only questionable thing is the drizzle? If you put it in the calculator here with soy milk it comes up with 0 mg cholesterol, so I'm hopeful.

A friend asked this on fb and someone who works there said the hazelnut drizzle has milk. I was glad to see that before I knew it existed, because I would've gotten my hopes up too!

missmuffcake · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:01 pm

i want to try the mocha syrup now. what is a handy SB vegan list of syrups. raspberry is getting old for me right now.

j-dub · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:15 pm

missmuffcake wrote:

i want to try the mocha syrup now. what is a handy SB vegan list of syrups. raspberry is getting old for me right now.

All of the syrups except for white chocolate, chai (honey), caramel drizzle, pumpkin and hazelnut drizzle are vegan.

missmuffcake · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 11:30 pm

awesome! thanks!

almiratanner · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 11:42 pm

I was under the impression that the chai was vegan (but not the stuff you can buy in the cartons)....?

bodhi · **Posted:** Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:17 am

almiratanner wrote:

I was under the impression that the chai was vegan (but not the stuff you can buy in the cartons)....?

Last time I read the carton, it was vegan, but I distinctly recall it having said honey a few years ago. I wonder if they changed it a while back? I don't remember that happening though..

quark · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:31 am **Posts:** 642

bodhi wrote:

almiratanner wrote:

I was under the impression that the chai was vegan (but not the stuff you can buy in the cartons)....?

Last time I read the carton, it was vegan, but I distinctly recall it having said honey a few years ago. I wonder if they changed it a while back? I don't remember that happening though..

Woah, there's a possibility that the Chai is now vegan? That would rock my world. I may ask the kind baristas at ye local Starbucks to show me the carton....

bodhi · **Posted:** Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:30 am

quark wrote:

bodhi wrote:

almiratanner wrote:

I was under the impression that the chai was vegan (but not the stuff you can buy in the cartons)....?

Last time I read the carton, it was vegan, but I distinctly recall it having said honey a few years ago. I wonder if they changed it a while back? I don't remember that happening though..

Woah, there's a possibility that the Chai is now vegan? That would rock my world. I may ask the kind baristas at ye local Starbucks to show me the carton....

For the record, I definitely haven't looked in the last couple years, because I never drink it myself, and I'm now on leave. Cross your fingers? I hope it is.

ETA: Okay, I googled it, and it looks like it does have honey. : (

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