If I ruled the world, I would make the Costas and the StarBucks close down. We dont need this type of business in the UK serving highly expensive drinks to people. A good souce of employment for some people but that's about all.
The only time I have ever gone into a StarBucks was up in London attending a diabetes event. I got there early and it was freezing cold so went in search of a McD's to sit down and drink a coffee and kill time. After walking about a mile in the wrong direction, I saw a StarBucks so said to OH, come on I'm freezing and most likely my bg has fallen with all the walking, so we'll have a coffee in there instead of searching any longer for McD. Skinflint said you can have one but Im not so we sat down, chatted to some other people and I drank what I thought was a normal coffee made with water and topped up with milk and then whisked up to be frothy. It tasted lovely but I had no idea what the carb content was until I tested my bg at the event and then was shocked to see a bg of 15mmol on my meter A certain someone then grinned and said that coffee had about 45g carb in it.
Waaaaaat.......you are joking. Well had to do 2 bg corrections in order to get bg back to being ok and spent the evening, drinking mineral water and only eating pieces of meat in the laid on buffet.