Three words. Oreo. Mocha. Frappuccino. The insanely sweet and highly caffeinated drink from Starbucks changed my life. I had just spent the last three weeks in Switzerland, Germany, and France. I was getting ready to board the plane back to the states when my friend walked up with the frappe. The dark chocolate drink looked insanely good, so I decided to finally try some coffee for myself.
The Starbucks was jammed packed. Waiting patiently in line. There were so many cultures and languages around me in the Paris airport. Finally, my turn! First, I bet the barista could tell that I was a rookie because I said, “Could I have a medium Oreo Mocha Frappuccino?” Which in the coffee world, I now know that the drink sizes aren’t small, medium, large but rather tall, grande, venti, and trenta. The first sip of coffee went down really smoothly. You could taste the chunks of the Oreo bits. The coffee taste wasn’t bitter like I expected but rather silky.
Six years later, I’m addicted to coffee. During my high school years my dad and I would drive to the local Starbucks most days and of course, they knew our names and orders. I have been to every local coffee brewery in Blacksburg and love them all. My family and I just moved over the summer to Greensboro, North Carolina, and my goal before I graduate college is to try every single coffee shop in town. The one thing that has changed between my European adventure and today has to be my order. I went from super sweet Frappuccino’s to iced coffee with skim milk and a shot of mocha. My love for coffee has just brewed over the past six years.
