All the differences between Starbucks in Italy and the US
From exclusive items to portion sizes, we wanted to find all the differences between Starbucks in the US and Italy. This is "Food Wars."
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00:00From exclusive items to portion sizes, we wanted to find out all the differences
00:03between Starbucks in Italy and the U.S. This is Food Wars.
00:10Our hot drinks in Italy come in four sizes, short, tall, grande, and venti.
00:16Our hot drinks come in five sizes, short, tall, grande, venti, and the coffee traveler.
00:24Two of these, like grande and venti, are Italian words. Like, venti means 20
00:31in Italian, and grande just means big. Let's measure them out to see.
00:36The name translates to 20, but it is not.
00:39In the U.S., iced coffees come in four sizes, tall, grande, venti, and trenta.
00:45Trenta is not available as an option for their espresso drinks,
00:49but you can get it in stuff like cold brew or their iced teas.
00:52Our iced coffees come in three sizes, tall, grande, and venti.
00:58Let's measure the venti to see if it actually is 20 ounces.
01:0518 ounces. So again, not a true venti. It's more like a diciotto, which is like 18.
01:12We're also going to weigh some popular food items from Starbucks.
01:15Let's start with the butter croissant.
01:17So, it's a pretty big difference to how much Italy's weighs. It's a lot smaller.
01:22Another popular bakery item is the blueberry muffin. Let's see what it weighs.
01:34Here's everything that you find at Starbucks in Italy that you won't find in the U.S.
01:39Here's everything that you'll find at a Starbucks in the U.S. that you won't find in Italy.
01:43We know that Starbucks is popular because of its customization options,
01:47so because of that, we're only going to look at the official menus in the U.S. and Italy.
01:51These are the exclusive hot drinks that you can find at Starbucks here in Italy.
01:54Starting from this tiny cup, this one is barley coffee.
01:59In Italian, we call it caffè d'orzo, and it's basically an alternative to espresso
02:05for those people that cannot really drink coffee. It has the look of coffee.
02:10I'm not a fan of this, I think, you know, because I can drink normal coffee, so,
02:15but if I were not able to, I think I'll just force myself to like it just for the,
02:19you know, pleasure of still having my espresso. And then we have a vanilla latte.
02:24It does smell just like, just like a cappuccino, really, but obviously it's like past 11 or so,
02:31so it's like past breakfast time anyway, so cappuccinos are like a no-no drink for me.
02:37No, no drink for me. I'm not so much into like drinking milk after a certain time of the day.
02:44And then we have latte macchiato, and then we have this one. This one is a
02:48salted maple and caramel latte. It just smells like sugar. It's nice, yeah, it does taste like
02:56fake artificial syrup. And then we got some teas. We got Teavana English Breakfast,
03:04Jasmine Pearl, hibiscus, or hibiscus as we say here, and chamomile. And you may also be able to
03:12find the Moroccan, which in Italian just translates into like literally marocchino.
03:17It's like a tiny cappuccino in a way. There's like a bit of coffee and a bit of milk,
03:21obviously with like its own like proper ratio. And it's named weirdly after a Moroccan leather
03:28that has the same color that this coffee has. It's like a brownish, like light brown leather.
03:34That's actually very popular here in the northern region in Milan where we are.
03:38So here are the hot exclusive beverages we bought today. This is the caramel apple spice juice,
03:45the apple crisp oat milk macchiato, we have a blonde vanilla latte, and this is a Royal
03:51English breakfast tea. We also have these exclusive hot drinks. I feel like I have to
03:56try this caramel apple spice juice because it looks nothing like juice. So I'm interested.
04:08I think it's just hot apple cider. It doesn't taste bad actually, that tastes pretty good.
04:12I'm gonna try the Royal English breakfast tea in honor of Harry.
04:19It's not my favorite. But my preference is iced tea, not hot tea, so maybe that's why.
04:25And I also like them a lot sweeter. We have lots of exclusive cold drinks here in Italy.
04:30We didn't get everything, but here's what we've got. Starting from a cookies and cream frappuccino.
04:37I'm quite surprised this is exclusive to Italy because I always associate
04:42cookies and cream with the US. It has held its shape in the delivery. To me this is a bit of
04:49a foreign idea because we just have the boring chocolate flavor. Yeah, like chocolate cookies.
04:59Nice. It's like a childhood memory. Here are all the fraps that we got. So we have the chai
05:04cream, this is the mocha cookie frap, this is the apple crisp frap, the pumpkin spice frap,
05:12and the white mocha cream frap. I feel very compelled to try this mocha cookie frap because
05:17it just looks like a milkshake. It looks like dessert. There's literally cookie crumbles in it.
05:26Yeah, it tastes like cold chocolate milk, specifically Nestle syrup chocolate milk.
05:31An apple crisp frappuccino sounds kind of special to me, so I really want to taste it.
05:36Kind of tastes like a candle. I don't like that. Not at all. But I tried it. The pumpkin spice
05:42frap and the apple crisp frap are seasonal items, so you're not going to be able to find them year
05:47round. And then we have iced cold foam cappuccino. We don't really have a lot of foam here. It also
05:55looks quite dark for a cappuccino, but maybe that's just because the foam is gone, but
06:00I don't know. They keep putting hearts here, but I'm not really tempted to try this.
06:05And then we have an iced salted maple and caramel latte. That does smell a lot like
06:14sugar, actually. Not even like maple. It actually just smells like sugar, and you can see the sugar
06:19at the top. I did live in Canada for one year. Let's see if it does actually taste like maple.
06:24I don't know if I can advocate for, like, Canadians out there, but for what it's worth,
06:29I'm going to try it. There's no maple in there. Definitely no. It's like sugar. Not even caramel,
06:36just a lot of sugar. I feel like a Canadian would never order this, but that would be another
06:41episode of Food Wars. And then we have iced chai tea oat latte. Again, quite surprised that this
06:48is exclusive to Italy because we're not so big on, like, chai. I don't know. For some reason,
06:53I really like chai as, like, the tea version, but I've never really quite liked it with milk.
06:59So we have cold brews, but we also have nitro cold brews, which are a little bit frothier and
07:04thicker than the regular cold brew. This is the pumpkin cream cold brew. This is the cinnamon
07:09caramel cream nitro cold brew. And here we have the vanilla sweet cream nitro cold brew. I already
07:15know that I love the pumpkin cream cold brew. I kind of want to try this cinnamon caramel one.
07:24No, not for me. It's a little weirdly sweet for something that doesn't have any milk in it,
07:30I don't think. Let me try this one. This one's really good. I really like the vanilla sweet
07:35cream cold brew. That just tastes like a really good foamy coffee. We then have this one,
07:41the very berry hibiscus refresher. And then we have a matcha frappe. Again, I don't know how
07:47this is specific to Italy because I think the whole matcha craze has kind of maybe spared us
07:53in a way. But there's no other place where you will find any matcha flavoring because I think
07:58our green thing is pistachio. We just don't have space for two green things to compete.
08:04Let's give it a try. I've never actually had it in a frappuccino. Yeah, tastes like matcha,
08:11just very artificial matcha. We have a bunch of other iced coffees that you can get. Here they
08:16all are. And today we actually bought the iced flat white. I've had this before and I think I
08:22really like it, but I just want to take a sip again. Still good, still delicious. It's a little
08:27milky, but it's really tasty. We also have several iced teas. Here we have the pumpkin cream chai,
08:34the matcha lemonade, a peach green tea, the London fog iced latte, an iced passion tea,
08:40the frozen strawberry acai lemonade, and the frozen mango dragon fruit lemonade.
08:45Starbucks sells these evolution fresh juices. This one is orange, apple, mango,
08:49pineapple, and acerola. That sounds really good. I've never had matcha and lemonade together,
08:55so let's taste it. That's actually not bad. I thought I was gonna hate it. It's actually
09:00pretty good. Let's try the London fog tea latte. No, so candley. I feel like I'm gonna keep saying
09:09that. Why does everything taste a little weird today? I do want to try one of these frozen
09:14refreshers. Let's see what this strawberry acai tastes like. It's really good. It tastes like
09:19strawberry lemonade. It's not frozen anymore, but it's tasty. We then have a bunch of smoothies. We
09:25have this innocent blue juice, and the names are actually funny because there are player words
09:32here. This one is called fabuloso. Then we have a pink juice from innocence. This one has another
09:39player word. It's like rosa aiosa, and if you're Italian watching this, yes, I'm from the south
09:46because you can tell by the way we pronounce our o's. We then have these tiny ones. This juice is
09:53mango, passion fruit, and apple, and another one with strawberry and banana. Yeah, they look very
10:00nice and natural. We have other cold drinks. This one is a quinotto, and they're all from this brand
10:08I've actually never heard of it, but it looks like a fancy quinotto to me. So quinotto is an Italian
10:14drink made with bergamot. We normally just have it from San Pellegrino, which is like a more
10:19commercial brand. It does taste good. It's a bit like the Italian version of coca-cola.
10:23My parents' generation, they were having these, not cold. We then have a red orange. We have
10:30sparkling soda from the same brand, and we have lemonade, which looks very nice, and then we
10:37picked up also this. It's just cold infused water. In Italian, it's called infuso a freddo, and
10:44actually we've got more. Here are the rest of the cold drinks. Here is the U.S.-only customizable
10:50drink that we created. This is a cafe vanilla coffee frappe with half and half. The cup is
10:56lined with caramel sauce. It's got brown sugar syrup, mocha sauce, and cinnamon dolce sprinkles,
11:02and also I think some cookie crumbles. There are some mysterious crumbles on top that I have
11:07no idea where they came from because I didn't ask for them, but it looks fun. This is gonna
11:12give me the worst tummy ache I already know. That is the sweetest drink I think I've ever tasted in
11:21my life. It's too much. Absolutely too much. It is really fun that Starbucks lets you customize
11:27anything, pretty much anything, because this would never have been made otherwise. There is a lot of
11:33food at Starbucks here in Italy. Let's start from the savory options. We've got your dear salmon bagel.
11:42I don't know. Does that have cream cheese in it? No. It does look like just salmon and some herbs,
11:52some like sad salad. Yeah, this is also cooked salmon, and aren't you big on like smoked salmon
11:58over there? I don't know. Nico, you are in New York. What do you think from a New Yorker point
12:03of view? Does that look like a good bagel? No, it does not, but maybe it tastes better than it looks.
12:08Now we have some toasts. We have ham and cheese. Looks like an honest toast. And then we've got the
12:15same version, just with three cheeses. I'll be curious to know which cheeses they are, because
12:21they just say three cheeses. And then we've got baked focaccia with ham. Well, okay, first of all,
12:27this is not focaccia. I mean, I don't know what this is. It looks great, actually. It looks very
12:33nice and fluffy, but this is not focaccia, because it just doesn't have this shape,
12:39and it's too fluffy. It just looks like bread to me. Yeah, it looks quite nice, actually,
12:45like a normal sandwich you would find. It's quite refreshing, because I don't know when this is
12:49going out, but like the amount of burgers and like things filled with weird sauces I had to
12:53try for this show is just unbelievable. And Starbucks, I don't know, but like it looks like
12:59you really made it in Italy. You like serving actually Italian food, so thank you. And here
13:03we have some of our exclusive breakfast items. This is the Impossible Sandwich, the Bacon and
13:09Gruyere Egg Bites, the Bacon Sausage Egg Wrap, the Bacon Gouda and Egg Sandwich, and here's the
13:16Berry Trio Parfait. Let's take a bite of the Impossible Sandwich. I've had this before,
13:21and I feel like I mostly like it. It's just like a little bit weird if you let it sit for too long.
13:26I feel like for a not-real sausage patty, this actually tastes pretty good. I've always thought
13:31that the egg bites were like some sort of genius move, even though Starbucks definitely didn't
13:36invent them. My favorite are the egg white bites. These don't look edible anymore, but I'll take a
13:41bite. That's really good, actually. I think it's just because I got a mouthful of bacon, but it
13:47tastes really good. And then we have a bunch of sandwiches. Here we call sandwiches tramezzini,
13:54kind of translation. We have this one with salmon and avocado. Looks nice, even though the options
14:03outside of the box look very, like, look delicious, so I wouldn't go for the box one. We have this one
14:08with a porchetta, which is roasted pork from like Rome and like the Roman region. Very, very good.
14:15And yeah, if you're ever around there, they also do a lot of nice festivals, so check it out.
14:20This one has porchetta and mushrooms. And the last one is this one with zucchini and eggplants.
14:26We also got salads. We have chicken and cheese, what looks like grated parmesan. And then we got
14:34tuna and feta with croutons and olives again. This is all you need for a salad. The only Caesar
14:43we know here is Julius Caesar. I know that's bad, but actually it's true. It's true.
14:49It's very, very cliche, but it's true. Like, we don't like Caesar salad. And then we've got this
14:54one. It's called pincho with cured ham, artichoke sauce, and mozzarella. Okay, interesting shape.
15:02Looks funny. I don't really know what a pincho is. It may be something from like another Italian
15:07region. I'm not so familiar with it, actually. To be honest, this artichoke is a bit of a joke
15:11because there's not a lot of it. Let's try it out and see.
15:19That tastes like artichoke. Actually, it tastes quite natural. So very nice. Yeah, it's not
15:24flavoring. Yeah, I like this one. We then have some stuffed croissants because here we're not,
15:31we're not French, so we're not scared of putting things in croissants like our friends across the
15:36border. So they're quite similar. This one has cured ham and scamorza, it looks like.
15:42Little salad thing. Honestly, I don't really like it. Doesn't taste like much and it just
15:47ruins everything visually. Next croissant we have, I think it's the same cheese,
15:52just with cooked ham instead. In Italy, we actually do eat a lot of savory croissants.
15:57Sorry, French people. We usually eat them as like tiny bites in like an aperitif. They serve
16:03them. They're like really, really, this size. They're very tiny. We also have this one,
16:08which is supposed to be a focaccia with a plant-based schnitzel. I mean, honestly,
16:13this is not focaccia. I mean, quite clearly there's been some like mistake in the menu
16:18because it's just a sandwich. And I don't know, why do plant-based things always have very sad
16:24buns like this? Why don't you use this one? This looks much nicer. This is like just very sad and
16:30plain. We do have some snacks as well. We have some mixed fruits and nuts. We have roasted and
16:38salted mixed nuts. And then we have cheese snacks. Okay. This looks like it's a thing
16:46because McDonald's also has those like tiny Parmesans. Those like tiny Parmesan snacks
16:52and Starbucks seems to be following suit and just giving you some cheese snacks.
16:56It just says it's like a semi-hard cheese and it's only made with three ingredients. Nice.
17:01You know, milk, salt, and redness. Okay. No, I'm a bit disappointed. I was expecting actual cheese,
17:09like tiny bits of cheese. This is like, it's like a chip.
17:17Yeah, they're cheesy. They're not too bad actually.
17:20Moving on to our more lunchy options. This is the grilled cheese on sourdough,
17:26the tomato mozzarella sandwich on focaccia. They also offer a ham and Swiss on a baguette
17:31and a turkey provolone pesto on ciabatta that we did not get. I want to take a bite of this
17:36grilled cheese. The bread actually looks pretty good. There's not going to be a cheese ball.
17:40It's going to crack in half if I do that. It's literally so solid from sitting here all day.
17:51Okay. Wait, it looks like there's no cheese even in this. That's so weird. It must be like a lighter
18:01cheese. I've had way better grilled cheese, but this bread's actually pretty tasty. This sandwich
18:07seems inspired by Italian flavors. So I'm very shocked that it's not on the Italian menu. That
18:13is one sad looking sandwich. I'm going to take a bite from the middle. Don't be mad. It's just
18:18that all the filling has like moved to the center of the bread. It's not bad. It's not great, but
18:26it's not a bad sandwich. It mostly tastes like pesto. We also have a variety of protein boxes.
18:32Here we have the PB&J protein box. This used to be my lunch every single day when I was in college.
18:38Starbucks in Italy has a lot of bakery options. This I'm very excited about because I think we
18:44do actually associate Starbucks with like a breakfast cafe in a way. Starting from a maple
18:51and pecan bread. Then we have a cinnamon swirl. Yeah, it looks nice and fluffy. And then we've got
18:59the saddest, saddest looking croissant ever. This is the vegan one. It's just like a very unpleasant
19:07brown. Is this what the laco butter makes? Like just something very brown? It doesn't feel that
19:14great. And like inside it just actually, it cuts a little bit like a bread. Whoop, in a way.
19:25Right, bread's vegan. Yeah. So here's some bread in the shape of a croissant. And then we got
19:31another croissant. This one is multigrain and honey. And then we got a plain one. Very good
19:37lamination actually, Starbucks. Look, there's a lot of little layers. Actually, Starbucks called
19:43these croissants French croissants in Italian as well. And they actually do look quite different
19:51compared to the Italian croissants that I'm used to. Italian croissants,
19:55they're not made of layers of dough and butter. Let's see.
20:01A plain one, I will have it only if it's laminated this way. I think the Italian one is just really
20:11meant to be filled. So I'm curious to see how the others actually look and feel just because they
20:17are still the French ones, but they are filled. So we've got this one here with apricot jam.
20:22Let's check it out. Yeah, lots of jam. Looks quite nice. And then we have
20:30the green thing here, here in Italy that is not matcha, it's pistachio.
20:40Tastes like a nutty spread. Quite, quite a nice spread. There's not a lot of it though.
20:46The final one, we've got the custard. This also looks quite nice. Interesting to see how much
20:51custard there is in here. There's a lot. It's a bit eggy as well, which is what I would look for
20:57in a custard. Not too lemony, just a hint and like a bit of vanilla. And apparently you can
21:03also get the hazelnut croissant, but we were not able to get it. And then we have a double
21:09chocolate cookie and a hazelnut donut. Yeah, we're starting to enter foreign territory here.
21:18Maybe a bit sad compared to what's coming after, which are these mini donuts. Quite cute and
21:24colourful. And then we have some brownies. We have a caramel crumble brownie and then we have
21:30a triple chocolate brownie. Actually quite like brownies. It's one of those sort of foreign cakes
21:38that I'm kind of very used to and I don't mind having it. Let's see if we do it well here in Italy.
21:49This is like the ones I'm used to that I've had. And then we have this one. It's a raspberry and
21:54coconut loaf cake. It does look a bit like a typical Italian cake. We, I have no idea that
22:01this type of cakes were called loaf cakes, but seems quite accurate. Not quite convinced about
22:07the stuff at the top. It just doesn't seem necessary. I would have put it inside just to
22:13flavour the dough rather than just put it at the top. And then we have a strawberry cheesecake.
22:19Then you may also be able to find apple pie, apricot filled rings, custard and raisin sweets.
22:26Then a vanilla and chocolate muffin that's also available in triple chocolate, brownie and orange.
22:33Mini chocolate muffins, carrot cake that can also be red velvet and chocolate cake,
22:39and a milk chocolate gold coin. The US also has a lot of baked goods. We have a couple of the
22:45iconic Starbucks cake pops. I want to take a bite of this cookies and cream one.
22:54That's so good. This is the blueberry scone, the everything bagel, the petite vanilla scone,
23:01the coffee cake, even though it looks like someone sat on it. It looks a little smushed,
23:06but it's very good. The incredible incomparable lemon loaf. It's delicious. The glazed donut.
23:15I did say that Italy's bagel didn't look that good. Not that ours looks any better,
23:20but I just want to taste the everything bagel to see what the flavour is giving.
23:24It's like mediocre. It's not that good on flavour and it's not a great texture. I would only reach
23:33for a Starbucks bagel if I was like going on a flight or something and this was just like my
23:38only option. I don't think that I would ever purchase it with a million other good bagel
23:43options around me. So the pumpkin loaf and the pumpkin cream cheese muffin are seasonal
23:48exclusives along with the baked apple croissant, which was not available today. I feel like people
23:53are buying them like crazy. They're really good. And if you want the little snacks,
23:56there are also these options. We've got yogurt with wildflower honey and yogurt with berries
24:02and jam. Then we've got some fruits. You can also get pineapple. And then we've got just a
24:08fruit salad. And finally, we've got this thing, the cookie straw. So is this how you're supposed
24:13to have it? This feels like something a child will have. It's like I'm alone at home and I'm
24:19like 12. I'm having a very calorific drink with like weird straw. Yeah, weird.
24:29Actually don't mind the straw per se, but just the idea seems so ridiculous.
24:36We also got a few iconic Starbucks checkout snacks. So this is the marshmallow dream bar.
24:42We have the Madeleines and we also have the vanilla almond biscotti. I see these at every
24:46single Starbucks I go to and I'm always tempted to buy one. I kind of want to try these Madeleines.
24:51I don't think I've ever had a Madeleine before.
24:58That's pretty good. It kind of tastes like a cakey sugar cookie. I don't know if it's supposed
25:03to taste like that, but it does taste like that. You may also know Starbucks for the Starbucks
25:08reserve roasteries that are very much present in the US. You can also find them in other countries.
25:14And actually there's one here in Italy too, in Milan, that opened in 2018. And the roasteries are
25:20famous for having different types of coffee that have the rarest coffee that you can find at
25:26Starbucks. They offer experiences at these roasteries where they demonstrate different
25:30ways to make the coffee through blending, brewing, and infusions. And they also have wine, beers,
25:36cocktails, some of which include coffee. They have a lot of food options too. Each roastery is a
25:41little different in its architecture, so it's really interesting just to have a look around.
25:45Unfortunately, we were not able to visit the roastery in this trip, but we actually went in
25:512018. So we're going to play some footage of our visit. I was there. We took a visit to one of the
25:57roasteries here in New York City. It was really cool to see how they make these different drinks
26:01and everything in there is so fancy compared to a regular Starbucks. These are the drinks exclusive
26:07to the New York roastery that we wanted to try. Let's start with the Hazelnut Bianco Latte.
26:12I love hazelnut, so it's really good. It's really, really, really good. I feel like it tastes better
26:19than any other Starbucks coffee I've had. Let's try the Whiskey Barrel Aged Cold Brew. This is
26:26intriguing to me. I hate whiskey, but there's no real whiskey in this. Okay, wait. It tastes like
26:37there is whiskey in it, but there isn't. I made sure to say, like, alcohol-free. What I think
26:42from what I'm understanding is that they might age this in the whiskey barrels once the whiskey
26:49is removed from those barrels, but it still tastes very strong. It's spirit-free, but the spirits are
26:58lurking. You can still taste it. This was actually invented in Italy and then, yeah, launched again,
27:05recreated at the roastery. This is the Oleato Caffè Latte, and oleato just literally means
27:12oiled, and it's just a caffè latte with a shot of olive oil. Apparently, this is the CEO of
27:19Starbucks that traveled to Italy, to Sicily, and just saw some people having shots of olive oil
27:25and coffee, and thought it would be a good idea to roll this out internationally,
27:31and for some reason, thought that all Italians were actually doing it. I don't know. It's the
27:36first time I hear it. Like, I would be quite happy to have a shot of olive oil for just energy, but
27:43I don't know if I would like it in my coffee. That seems, like, a bit too much. It's like, oh, what
27:48are two things Italians are associated with? Olive oil and coffee. Let's just put them all together
27:53and make it a drink. It's green. It's green, and obviously, the oil is floating on the coffee.
28:03So, the idea is that they should emulsify, but, you know, it's been sitting here for a bit because
28:08we've been doing all the filming, so perhaps that's why they separated. It just smells like
28:13coffee. Let's try it out. I don't taste much the olive oil, which is okay. It leaves you a different
28:22feeling on the lips. Like, the same feeling that you get when you, like, bite into a very oily thing.
28:28This is the moment that I've been dreading this entire day. The Oliato cafe lattes. These are
28:34basically lattes with a bunch of olive oil in them. I don't know whose idea this was. It doesn't
28:40sound like a good idea to me, but let's see which one is better, iced or not iced. It's not bad. I
28:48can definitely taste that there's oil in this, but it's not, like, aggressively oily in my mouth,
28:54which is what I was really dreading. It's really not terrible. I think it's the oat milk that's
28:59helping cover up some of what's happening. This looks terrible. The iced latte has completely,
29:06like, separated, so the top is just a layer of olive oil, which means I'm going to get
29:11a mouthful of olive oil upon first sip.
29:19It just tastes like a mouthful of olive oil. Let me mix it with a straw and see if that helps.
29:23To be clear, this didn't look like this when they first gave it to us. It's just been sitting around
29:28for a while. It tastes better, but still mostly tastes like olive oil. I think if I had to get
29:33an Oliato again, I would only get it hot just because it covers up all the olive oil flavor,
29:39which kind of defeats the purpose of getting one of these, but they're not terrible.
29:46It's quite hard, actually, for me to think that Starbucks is actually competing with the cafes
29:51that you can find here, just because the offer is very, very different. Like, it's the only place
29:56where you can find drinks this size, this elaborate, and with this much cream and, like,
30:03milk and syrups and all this stuff. I would say, in general, Starbucks is definitely huge here.
30:08You can find them everywhere. I feel like you're either a Dunkin' person or you're a Starbucks
30:13person, and it's very common for a chain like Starbucks to be somebody's everyday coffee shop.
30:20I will say, if you live in a major city with a lot of other options, a lot of different coffee
30:24shops, you might not head to Starbucks all the time, but it is one of the more popular coffee
30:30options in places like suburbs. It's hard to say that's popular because it is not really present
30:35everywhere. Obviously, it is in Milan, Rome, and, like, the big cities, but you won't find it in a
30:40village. What we do, I'm from, like, a medium-sized town in Italy, but in the evening, I'll go out to a
30:47small town. You know, during the day, I'll go out for a day trip in a small town. I won't live there,
30:52but I will hang around there. That's where you don't find the chains, and I think that is what,
30:57you know, still makes Starbucks perceived as something a bit foreign because you still don't
31:04see it in these tiny towns, and you still see the local cafe. Like, it's just, in general, the idea
31:08of chains doesn't really resonate well. In terms of the actual coffees, like the long coffees,
31:15I don't know, actually, if they get lots of orders from, like, Italians. I think you either just, I
31:19would either go personally just for a simple espresso or from the elaborate, like, for the
31:26elaborate things because they are a bit like an ice cream to me. Treat yourself, but also, like, if I
31:30see you drinking that cookie crumble mocha frappe at nine in the morning, I'm gonna slap it out of
31:35your hand. Grow up, please. Just the culture of, like, the big drink to take away, to, like, drink on the go,
31:44drink in your car. That's just not, that's just not how things work around here. People really love
31:51the Starbucks seasonal menus. I think every year when fall or Christmas time rolls around, everyone
31:56gets super excited to see what new stuff is on the menu, what old stuff is coming back. I mean,
32:01speaking of the food, I think they've done a very good job of sort of adapting to the Italian, you
32:06know, flavors. The drinks are a little bit different. There are some things like cookies
32:12and cream that are just not Italian. We all know that Starbucks is a big American chain,
32:17and I think they obviously want to keep a part of that because, you know, Italians are curious
32:23about it as well. Unfortunately, Starbucks does not list ingredients on its website. We did try to
32:32get in contact, but we're still waiting for a reply. The U.S., however, does provide all of the ingredients
32:39for their full menu. We thought it would be interesting to see what's in the Oliato range,
32:43since both U.S. and Italy have this available. The Oliato cafe latte with oat milk contains
32:48oat milk, which is just water and oats, canola oil, di-potassium phosphate, calcium carbonate,
32:54tri-calcium phosphate, sea salt, di-calcium phosphate, riboflavin, vitamin A, vitamin D2,
33:01vitamin B12, brewed espresso, which is just water and coffee, and extra virgin olive oil. The exciting
33:07thing about this drink is the addition of extra virgin olive oil, which is mostly associated with
33:12a Mediterranean diet. It does ramp up the calories compared to a normal latte, which with two percent
33:18milk is 190 calories, but there's been a lot of research surrounding the benefits of extra virgin
33:23olive oil, particularly around preventing diseases and decreasing cholesterol. Plus, the Oliato latte
33:29has been fortified with vitamins, so sounds pretty good to me, even though I'd never order this again.
33:37In the U.S., a venti caramel frappuccino is $6.75 or €6.37. Keep in mind that's a New York
33:44price. The prices might vary slightly depending on what state you're in. In Italy, a caramel
33:49frappuccino is €5.70. That translates to roughly $6.19, so it actually works out cheaper here in
33:59Italy. In the U.S., a venti cappuccino is $6.25 or €5.90. In Italy, a venti cappuccino is €3.40.
34:11In dollars, that translates into $3.69. To be honest, it's kind of fair judging by how big the
34:17things are. Coffee is always quite cheap, actually, in Italy. It's usually around €1. Lately, it has
34:25gone up a little bit, but if you pay €1.50, it's already very expensive. Again, I think this goes
34:31into the idea that these drinks are ice creams, they're not coffees, because paying €3.50,
34:37€5.00, it's a lot of money. That's just not a coffee, because a coffee is supposed to be quick
34:45and cheap.