Starbucks just announced 6 wild new Frappuccino flavors, including cotton candy and lemon bar
Starbucks just announced six new Frappuccino flavors, and some of them sound, um, interesting. The new options are caramel cocoa cluster, cinnamon roll, cotton candy, cupcake, lemon bar, and red velvet cake.
These questionable creations are customer-inspired, Starbucks said. You can buy them for a limited time starting Monday. Or don't, because literally no one would blame you for not paying to ingest liquid cotton candy.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
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