Revealed: the Starbucks order that made worker want to quit

And other stories from the stranger side of life

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A Starbucks worker has prompted laughter online after sharing a complex order from a customer. The order, made through the chain’s mobile app, saw a man called Edward request a drink including: five bananas, extra caramel drizzle, extra whipped cream, extra ice, extra cinnamon, seven pumps of caramel sauce, extra caramel crunch, one pump of honey blend, seven frappuccino chips and heavy cream. Sharing an image of the order on social media, the employee wrote: “On today’s episode of why I wanna quit my job.”

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.