I'm a hopeless coffee snob. I hate Starbucks, so I try to avoid it, but people like it and sometimes you have to meet someone there.

I had the almost exact same experience the last time I had to meet someone there and got one of their slushies and it was good. Next time I might just grab a coke.

Starbucks makes Starbucks drinks and people go there because they like Starbucks drinks. Starbucks is basically just marketing. People may have looked because you didn't have a "regular order". This is marketing bullshit. You shouldn't feel bad, but that is how marketing works.

I've started to unhelpfully vent a bit. There's nothing wrong with not liking coffee and not liking Starbucks coffee is the correct opinion. Hot chocolate is delicious.