This Starbucks Cup Name Trickery Has The Internet In A Tizz

Starbucks staff have a patchy history when it comes to correctly writing customers’ names on their coffee cups, but this one comes with a double-shot of witchcraft.

A customer whose name, there’s an 80% chance, is Anne, noticed as she drank that quite a different name was displayed on the inside of the cup.

What was quite clearly ANNE written in block capitals from one angle became Julia from the reverse.

The photo was posted to Imgur by a user called CuteDummy with no more explanation than “’Anne’ looks like ‘Julia’ from inside the cup”.

Starbucks started writing customer names on coffee cups in March 2012 in an effort to ensure you got the right coffee and make you feel more like a valued customer enjoying a personalised coffee buying experience.

However, noisy shops, language barriers and general disinterest led to many baristas mishearing, misspelling and occasionally trolling customers with nonsensical alternative names.

So despite the spooky double-name, Anne should be happy that she at least got not one but two actual human names on her cup.

[Lead image: CuteDummy on Imgur]