Clareified

My Scrabble habit has become an ersatz Starbucks habit since the chain coffee shops are the only places where word freaks can unpack boards, tiles, racks and clock timers in NYC for the low low cost of a cup of coffee or a scone. Yes, I have been thrown out of diners, bookstores, artspace, libraries…I’m a 32-year-old skater kid getting hassled by the man. Plus, a couple of key Starbucks’ are open 24 hours and I play with crackeads. As per usual, I found items on the menu that I like and I get the same thing everytime — small latte and a coffee cake. And then, this whole calorie counting madness started. Now, I am actively on a “diet” — so I had to switch to a skim latte (happily, it tastes the same to me for some reason) — but well, I wasn’t going to do diet coffee cake or (heaven forfend) no coffee cake at all, so I was happy when I read this in a column:

Um, no. The Starbucks calorie count for the cinnamon coffee cake was 290. For the blueberry coffee cake — 320.

Bah, 300 calories? That’s like twenty minutes on the treadmill…piece of cake. Coffee cake.

via Karol

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