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What’s your worse mispronunciation while on the floor? (self.starbucksbaristas)

submitted by Affectionate_Fart

My worst, was when a partner was asking where the frap roast was. I turned around and went “fap roast is behind the third menu!” And I caught myself and had a laughing fit as a partner said “…fap roast. Must be why people like them so much…”

LackOfColor_ 173 points 1y ago

Once on DTO I repeated the order and said “cock pop” I was so embarrassed I can’t even tell you what happened next. Blocked that one right out

Dapper_Blues 54 points 1y ago

Came here to say this. I've done this at least three times. The customers either don't notice or pretend not to notice but it's become a joke among my fellow baristas (and honestly I kinda love it).

Best is calling it out loudly in cafe. "Chocolate cock pop for Karen!"

7beforeminutes5 13 points 1y ago

Now that I’ve read this I’m bound to make this mistake. Not sure if that’s better or worse than being in DTO and saying welcome to Costco

CorpBrig 124 points 1y ago

One green bean at our store was having a really bad day when he said "Spinach Fetish Wrap"

notrachelmar 32 points 1y ago

we have someone who once said “spinach fajita wrap”, not as bad but made me laugh

overturned23 31 points 1y ago

that’s better than spinach fetty wap

amalia13lightning 26 points 1y ago

spinach fetty wap and the bacon shmouda

b99__throwaway 7 points 1y ago

our morning crew only calls them fetty waps lol

gsselph 5 points 1y ago

I only call them spinach feta wap

Boundtoloveyou 1 points 1y ago

My SM calls them this. Unironically. To customers.

jbra13 109 points 1y ago

Once I accidentally smushed “creme Frappuccino” into crappuccino when I was handing out a drink 😬

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 34 points 1y ago

Too bad it wasn’t a cappuccino, then it would be nice and steamy lmao

LionHush 8 points 1y ago

Omg I've been doing this so much lately I'm sure 5 customers have heard me. I just die inside a little every time

overturned23 2 points 1y ago

STOP LMAO

KenansCloud 3 points 1y ago

Ive done this so many times

b99__throwaway 2 points 1y ago

i’ve def said caramel ribbon crap before instead of crunch frap

CoffeeChesirecat 2 points 1y ago

I did this as a green bean once too lmao

orsonvulture 2 points 1y ago

Guilty of this as well, it is one of the reasons I hate DTO and DTR so much. It's so easy to just fuse words especially when you're nervous 🥲

jbra13 5 points 1y ago

DTO was my favorite but DTR was too much pressure for me for some reason lol. Oven during morning rush still gives me nightmares 2 years since I quit 🤣

orsonvulture 3 points 1y ago

Felt. I think it's due to the constant pressure to talk to people even when you can tell they don't want to talk, which is one of the many reasons I don't like it. Fair enough haha warming can be its own little hell too.

Red_Lemonade42 80 points 1y ago

Sausage chegg and eddar is a universal one at our store lol, nobody can stop saying it

CardiographicDuck 9 points 1y ago

Thank God I’m not the only one who’s said that one before 🤦🏻 I could’ve died from embarrassment the day I said it to a customer

blackcatcaptions 64 points 1y ago

Carbon Ribble crunch

NervosaNervous 32 points 1y ago

I had someone say Carmen Rainbow Crunch and I nearly died laughing.

blackcatcaptions 6 points 1y ago

oOoOO I like that one

QuietCity333 9 points 1y ago

we get a guy that orders a carbon ribbon crunch with an avocado shot.

i feel like there’s another word he mispronounces but i can’t remember what

buddhacroissant 4 points 1y ago

Caramel ribbon crunch wrap supreme

diphenhydranautical 53 points 1y ago

apparently there’s an old lady that comes by calling our paninis “punani.” i can’t wait to see it for myself lol

CardiographicDuck 22 points 1y ago

We have a customer who does that at our store… I am dying to tell her, “Ma’am… that’s illegal.”

-beam-me-up- 3 points 1y ago

Punani means vag**a in Hawaiian 💀

Ordinary-Theory-8289 45 points 1y ago

When I’m on DTO I Like to ask “what can I get farted for ya today?”

Also when people ask for “splender” i make sure to read it back and really annunciate that r lol

Moraii 44 points 1y ago

Started saying aw geez! and oops! at the same, ended up saying aw Jews!, really loud.

whiskeyaussie 2 points 1y ago

I’m dyinggggg 😂😂😂

alliemoose 41 points 1y ago

I once tried to say cheese and Swiss at the same time and it somehow came out as ‘ham and shit croissant’ 😔 my coworkers died laughing lmaoo

jennareddk 2 points 1y ago

I laughed out loud at this

snowflakenecklace 37 points 1y ago

i was a pretty green bean at this point, and was happy to be on bar!! i was doing really well keeping up on cold bar. finished off someone’s mocha cookie crumble frap. went to hand it off. my stupid idiot useless brain decided to combine the words. confidently and loudly told a customer their “mocha cookie crap” was ready.
it haunts me to this day.

b99__throwaway 4 points 1y ago

i’ve said caramel ribbon crap before. it happens 😂

Pheebers713 25 points 1y ago

Honestly being from MD it drives me up the wall when people order a cup of water and say can I get some “wooder”

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 12 points 1y ago

Dude…having a mom from BMORE…who says that…OMG. I was on vaycay with my SO and when someone asked where we were from I said “Bald-I-More…my boyfriend (from NJ) roasted me so fucking hard for that….
(Like voldamort…but….baldamore) lmao

Pheebers713 5 points 1y ago

Lmao. My dad was in the Air Force for most of my childhood, so we moved around quite a bit before settling in MD. In all their traveling my mom swears she has never been more annoyed by a states accent then the Baltimore/MD accent.

When we first moved into our home here in MD one of our neighbors was making a boxed cake and realized she didn’t have any oil. So they came over to ask if they could “have some ol” like a good ol truck. My mom stood there unable to understand what she was saying. She actually told our neighbor she didn’t know what that was. Which led to confusion from our neighbor because who doesn’t know what oil is? Eventually they figured it out and my mom gave her some oil. But oh my god my mom has never felt so embarrassed.

Also am-ba-lance for ambulance and Paf for path bother the fuck out of me

snolo89 21 points 1y ago

So, it wasn’t me it was a customer but damn was it funny!! Customer pulls into DT and asks for a spinach feta WAP X,D oh gosh I had to turn off my mic to laugh under my mask :D unfortunately no one else caught it :( I laughed alone.

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 15 points 1y ago

Had a barista pull that on a customer…poor girl was so confused as he was like “Okay, one fetty wap, totally $17.28”…..but it was actually a different amount. I am glad I wasn’t the SSV on duty lmao

Ordinary-Theory-8289 9 points 1y ago

I pretty much always reply back “one fetty wap, got it what else for ya?” Nobody ever notices lol

notrachelmar 4 points 1y ago

i also say spinach fetty wap, i can’t stop saying it

overturned23 16 points 1y ago

Welcome to Starfuck. It was 7 am ok.

catarinavanilla 16 points 1y ago

“Caramel Crotch Frappuccino” to a packed café

jennareddk 1 points 1y ago

I’m screaming

okayteenay 15 points 1y ago

I had a partner once forget how to pronounce the name “Barbara”. He kept saying “Bar-bear-ah” until I quietly corrected him. We had a good laugh. 😅

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 26 points 1y ago

My first stint as a barista…like six years ago…had a dude come in and order….his name was Geoffrey…….now…how would you pronounce that? (Hint: Game of Thrones was pretty big at the time…)
I yelled (Ge-Off-Rey!!) at the top of my lungs, my nerd manager fucking died. She walked up behind me and said “…it’s “Jeffery”…lmao

CardiographicDuck 9 points 1y ago

I don’t want to admit how old I was when I finally found out that it was pronounced “Jeffrey.” I played the Sims3 for a decade without having it corrected for me so “Ge-Off-Rey” was cemented as the pronunciation in my mind.

TL;DR: Geoffrey Landgraab

21pearl 14 points 1y ago

Black ass tea instead of black iced tea lol

changbinsomnia 14 points 1y ago

we have a guy that comes by and instead of saying trenta, he says trenchula 😭

2Afraid2Poop 13 points 1y ago

The Megan Dragonfruit lol

LilKaySigs 12 points 1y ago

Mocha coochie crumble

lofi1994 10 points 1y ago

Can we talk about mispronunciations from customers?
One of my daily regulars would order a ‘Pikes Peak’. And another would order ‘Tai Chi Latte’. I never corrected them and would call it out accordingly lmao

notrachelmar 10 points 1y ago

not really the same thing but i’m from the south and every single person that orders the brown sugar shaken espresso, they always either say or it sounds like they’re saying brown sugar OATMEAL shaken espresso. at first i thought everyone was confused until i realized it was the accent

[deleted] 7 points 1y ago

That, earlier had someone ask for "goat milk"

borrowedurmumsvcard 5 points 1y ago

a lot of my customers say oatmeal so they probably are saying it

mini-maggit 9 points 1y ago

Safted caramel fream cold brew w

gsselph 8 points 1y ago

We have a partner who can’t say impossible sandwich.. they call it irresponsible sandwich.

eatass420vorelord 2 points 1y ago

I'm going to start calling it that

sifatar 8 points 1y ago

Never been a barista but used to work retail. Don’t know if this counts, but sometimes I couldn’t decide on “my pleasure” or “no problem” so I would blurt out “my problem” upon being thanked.

eatass420vorelord 3 points 1y ago

I've definitely mixed "how are you" and "what're you up to today" into "what are you?". They either didn't hear or were kind enough not to say anything

faunaflorist 8 points 1y ago

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!! Didn’t happen to me, but way coworker on drive one day.

Customer: Oh, and can I get a pink cake pop?

Coworker: Sure! One Kink Pa-

Hysterical laughing ensues and I still say it to this day

CardiographicDuck 8 points 1y ago

I have a stutter and sometimes my sentences just get completely fucked. I was on drive-thru one day and told the customer at the speaker box: “Alright, sausage cheg and edder-“

899thKorok 10 points 1y ago

Sausage chegg and eddar & mochie cookie crumble are my most common spoonerisms (love that word). The worst though was one time when I was calling out a cafe drink for Steve, but as soon as I started to speak saw that the name on the sticker was Frank. Yelled “___ for STANK” verrrry loud across the store.

CardiographicDuck 6 points 1y ago

Frank over here wondering if he should switch to a different deodorant, LOL

kimememememe 7 points 1y ago

During a rush I was so frazzled I passed off a “porn cumpkin loaf and cake pop” 😭

missgurll 7 points 1y ago

banana butt bread for john :(

bonersz 7 points 1y ago

wanted to say "_____ im starting on your drink next" but accidentally said sharting instead😭

Chrisxp09 7 points 1y ago

Accidentally said our cups have chemicals and shit in them rather than stuff most embarrassing moment yet

7beforeminutes5 6 points 1y ago

Not a mispronunciation but for some reason I can not describe earth cake pops. Comes out as a chocolate cake pipe with chocolate chips covered in earth. I guess it’s not “wrong” but it sure isn’t right either!

Edit: whoops. Pop not pipe. Leaving the pipe in for giggles tho

auntiearms 1 points 1y ago

i fold every single time someone asks me

b99__throwaway 4 points 1y ago

“it’s blue & tastes like a brownie” is all i ever say

7beforeminutes5 2 points 1y ago

Oh I think I’m stealing this! It’s better than saying it’s covered in earth lol

Unknown_Scarab 6 points 1y ago

I was working on DTO during a close and pulled out the amazong phrase of "Pull on up to the woman" before immediatly muting mic and putting my head on the nice cool counter while my coworkers laughed

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 5 points 1y ago

Better than saying “pull out of the woman!”

kennsnaps 6 points 1y ago

When people call stevia sativa I get a good laugh

fluffygypsy 5 points 1y ago

Back tea black up

smittenkitten87 5 points 1y ago

These are great. The only thing is as I read these comments I feel like I’m going to make these mistakes now.

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 3 points 1y ago

It makes life fun.
It’s better than correcting a partner on saying “this bitch…” next to the person with their headset on -.-

BlAcKaT94 5 points 1y ago

Sometimes when I'm saying Mango Dragonfruit Refresher it comes out Maggot refresher... 😅

To be fair I've also had customers say this to me too when they are ordering it.

ssubrednulb 5 points 1y ago

My current favorites at my store are traintilla instead of trenta and assy-eye instead acai.

PrettyFlyforaWiFi13 4 points 1y ago

I called out a Peckermint Mocha
I also answered the phone once by saying thanks for stopping at Starbucks, what can I get started for you?

Own_Way5837 4 points 1y ago

“Trink prink” instead of “trenta pink drink” was the funniest I’ve done imo

Chhhloem4 4 points 1y ago

I still think about the customer that ordered a Strawberry Messiah whenever I’m feeling bummed.

Zero1Sixx 4 points 1y ago

Someone once ordered a macchiato with mocha in it, and when repeating their order I accidentally said “Mocha Ma-chode”. They didn’t pay attention to it but I stood there re-evaluating my life for a bit

cryptidoddity 4 points 1y ago

calling out an order as “..cookie crumble crappuccino” 😭 i was so embarrassed

Papaya_princess 3 points 1y ago

Once i was trying to say “let me just grab your cake pops real quick” and I accidentally said “let me grab your cock” to an old man and his teenage grandaughter

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 2 points 1y ago

Save some tips for the rest of us…lmao

Papaya_princess 1 points 1y ago

I wanted to actually die

pestocracker 3 points 1y ago

Okay so i just started at Starbucks and saw “htchc” or whatever it is on the screen and thought it meant Hitchcock which i assumed was some drink I’d never heard of. I asked the guy if he had the Hitchcock and he was like what? I had the hot chocolate. I pray no one else heard me.

saltynerdy 3 points 1y ago

I was tired and my brain couldn’t decide if I wanted to say hot cocoa or hot chocolate so I said ‘hot cocklet’

dzToffeeNuts 3 points 1y ago

"Birthday cock pop"

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 3 points 1y ago

…I need one of those for my SO…so I can tell him I have all the “cock” my mouth can handle… (note: this man still loves me after I put a sperm cell on the wall with a note: Just keep swimming❤️) lmao

anonymoustheories 3 points 1y ago

It was Thursday, happy hour… I was on bar and helping a green bean push through orders in Drive-thru. My SM was on the floor and had put a headset on just as a customer asked me if a drink was good. I said, “it’s dank.” It fell silent. That word is not even part of my vocabulary. And about 10 minutes later, I repeated back an order and called it a “fappuccino.”

merlin_my_cat 3 points 1y ago

Dick roast instead of dark roast

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 2 points 1y ago

…so many of our older female customers need this…in their routine lmao

SeparateAd3473 3 points 1y ago

Today I had someone completely give up on pronouncing gruyere and ordered the “bacon grr egg bites”

CoffeeChesirecat 3 points 1y ago

I had to scurry off dt bar and look for cinnamon down in cafe and kept going, "where is the synonym? Where is the synonym???" in a panic very loudly. It was during peak, I was stressed, and my brain refused to remember how to say cinnamon properly. The worst part is when my coworkers just stared at me silently and didn't tell me where the shaker was.

Edit: not a mispronounciation, but once on dt order I asked a customer what size they wanted their sausage classic 🙃

gennar_2003 3 points 1y ago

i always call sausage cheddar a “sussy chedd” to my coworkers & i cannot tell you how many times i accidentally say it to cussies

hdmp3converter 3 points 1y ago

when i was new i remembered the whole milk because it had a large ‘D’ on the side to point out the vitamin D. so I could quickly look at the jug and see the ‘D’. Well fast forward a year and I’m now a trainer. i’ve trained over 10 people and while training someone i notice they get uncomfortable and i suddenly realize that i just told them that ‘frappes get the D milk’ and they thought i was talking about that other D we all know of. I then realized i’ve been saying that the whole time i’ve been working and who knows how many trainees i accidentally creeped out

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 3 points 1y ago

…I’ve told my SO “You’d like almond milk…it’s the nut juice..” lmao he doesn’t like going to sbux with me anymore.

[deleted] 3 points 1y ago

We have a Brianna brieonna a Brie snd a brieann on my am shift snd their all YOU POINTS FINGER cause I can’t say Brie and I get their specific suffix mixed up

mollythewiz 3 points 1y ago

fetty wap, for the feta and spinach wrap😭😭

TinyTinasRabidOtter 3 points 1y ago

Spinach Fetty Wap got a pretty good laugh at it. That regular never ordered it the same

brokenlatteart 3 points 1y ago

My saying on DT was originally “hi welcome to Starbucks what can I get you started with today” eventually became “Hi welcome to Starbucks…started today” like I mumble my words a lot and it became this

FairProfessional0 3 points 1y ago

Whenever I occasionally hear my voice echoing at the speaker box, I end up doing this because I get distracted by it and can’t remember which words I’ve already said 😭

wodbroad 2 points 1y ago

A coworker of mine turned turned ‘Autumn’ into “Odom… like, Lamar Odom??” 😂

sh3nan1gans_ 2 points 1y ago

One time I was reading back an order on DTO and said Maggot dragonfruit drink by accident lmao

maine_coon2123 2 points 1y ago

Not quite a mispronunciation, but our shift used to call out the matcha lattes sometimes as “one vomit latte on the bar” but kinda low key and under his breath, enough for us to hear. Customers had no clue and we were dieing laughing behind the bar.

Edit: sp

AndrewSaidThis 2 points 1y ago

On more than one occasion, caramel crunch frap has become “Caramel Crap” when I’ve tried to say it. The worst was nearly saying “Birthday cock.” A coworker caught it, but I don’t think the customer did.

The funniest was on DTO and saying “Hello, welcome to Andrew!”

Sashimiroll16 2 points 1y ago

I always accidentally call the “Caramel Crunch Frap” (how I say it when giving the customer the drink the DT window), the “Caramel Crap”

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 3 points 1y ago

I call it captain crunch lol

Sashimiroll16 1 points 1y ago

That’s funny lol

Kayp22296 2 points 1y ago

A customer at my store said Carmen Ripple Crunch the other day 💀

SubstantialTree7 2 points 1y ago

This morning I said “spinach fetish wrap” on DTO. In my defense it was 4:30 am and my coffee hadn’t kicked in yet lol

Affectionate_Fart [OP] 2 points 1y ago

See…you gotta be like the cool kids and snort the grounds in the back…

Beg1nAga1n 2 points 1y ago

I have a weird bad habit of saying lemon syrup instead of honey syrup. No idea why; but it’s happened more than once.

b99__throwaway 2 points 1y ago

it’s bc the label is yellow it’s an association thing

Beg1nAga1n 3 points 1y ago

I think it’s because it’s used the most in my store for the HCMT which has lemonade 😂

lilkiosk 2 points 1y ago

Every time I read mango dragonfruit it takes me a second to make sure I don’t say what my brain wants it to be… magno drangonfruit… :(

kenkiii 2 points 1y ago

Caramel crap for Jessica

stoneylizzard 2 points 1y ago

all of the shaken espresso titles are tongue twisters for me. i stutter like hell calling them out and once said oatmeal instead of oat milk

mrbubblegxm 2 points 1y ago

strawberry asachi

TheWeirdNerd 2 points 1y ago

Crappuccino 💀

dallizzlee 1 points 1y ago

I don’t remember any of my word mistakes, but I so clearly remember the day I said “hi welcome to Starbucks, what can you do for us today?” He told me I was rude :(

Kaluskydrak 1 points 1y ago

When we had the VBR, I would always call out “Violent Drinks” whether ordered in DT or up front 🤷🏼‍♂️ gotta have fun lol

lemonuponlemon 1 points 1y ago

Caramel macchiato, every mispronunciation under the sun.

ElijahLordoftheWoods 1 points 1y ago

‘Welcome to Star Wars!’

To be fair I’d just had a lovely conversation with the customer at the window about her vintage Star Wars shirt. The customer at the box thought it was hilarious and then we talked about Star Wars at the window.

Select_Swordfish_603 1 points 1y ago

Asked someone today "would you like a swee?" I was trying to say straw. I don't know what a swee is.

SandPanda27 1 points 1y ago

Customer said spinach fetish wrap, so hilarious we all couldn’t help but laugh

a_1900 1 points 1y ago

Here and there when I’m on DTO/DTR and a customer asks for a feta wrap I gladly respond with ‘feta wap’

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spawnofsappho 1 points 1y ago

69th upvote🥺

Firm_Friendship_9148 1 points 1y ago

today i called a frappacino a crappachino on accident but just laughed it off

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