We’d like to pour that directly into our mouths and skip this odd cup, but reportedly that violates one too many food safety rules.

This is the magical year that Starbucks invited the Gingerbread Latte to the menu.

Grandma, how’d you get on the design team? Photo Credit: Starbucks According to them, it’s supposed to be “paper cut ornaments hanging on sprigs of evergreen.” It looks to us more like a palm tree with clunky jewelry. The year that Starbucks debuted the Caramel Brulée Latte was unfortunately also the year they went with this design. What only happens once a year? Red cups? The holiday menu at Starbucks? Visiting the dentist? Photo Credit: Starbucks Something about this phrase is super ominous and vaguely threatening. Just ask our neighbor who blinds us every night with their light display. Minimalism has its time and place, but the holidays are all about being gaudy. Look, we understand what Starbucks was trying to do here, and we respect it. They were pretty, and purple is the color of royalty, but it’s not so much a “holiday” color unless that holiday is Halloween. 19: Purple Cupsīefore the premiere of the red cup in 1999, Starbucks used purple shades for their holiday cups. Starbucks Red Cups Ranked From Worst to Best 25. We’re not procrastinating our holiday shopping, why do you ask? So we’ve taken it upon ourselves to rank all the designs the Starbucks Creative Studio has come up with from worst to best. The red cup designs have evolved over the years from the original candy apple red, and some of them were bigger hits than others. There was the now-infamous red cup fiasco of 2015 when the coffee giant was accused of removing all signs of Christmas from their cups in a minimalist all-red ombre design as part of the so-called “War on Christmas.”Įvery year, when they’re released, there’s a bit of hype and fanfare among fans of the coffee chain. Since the debut of the Starbucks red cups in 1999, they’ve made quite an impression.

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