Catholic teacher offended after being served 'satanic coffee'

02 April 2014 - 13:41 By Times LIVE
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Two cups of Starbucks joe with 'satanic' symbols, which offended a Catholic schoolteacher in the US.
Two cups of Starbucks joe with 'satanic' symbols, which offended a Catholic schoolteacher in the US.
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Starbucks has had to apologise to a customer whose coffee was supposedly decorated with satanic symbols, according to reports.

A schoolteacher claimed on Facebook that a Mall of Louisiana Starbucks served her two drinks with a pentagram and a ‘666 drawn on them with foam, said Gawker.

“The star was fine,” Megan Pinion of Catholic faith wrote in a Facebook complaint, because "it is in your Starbucks logo," but the 666 was "quite offensive."

She added that she was in no way judging the personal beliefs of the barista who made the drinks.

A Starbucks rep said the company has apologised for the incident.

"(Sunday) was the first we heard of it when she posted on our Facebook page," the spokesman told the Daily Advertiser.

"We reached out to her through social media and apologised. We're taking the complaint seriously. We're not sure who served her or what kind of beverage it was. It looks kind of caramel-ish in the photos."

When asked if Starbucks will change its policy regarding foam art, Starbucks replied:

“I don’t know; I guess it could,” reported Dangerous Minds.

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