An upside down at starbucks means a caramel macchiato.
Asking for an upside-down drink at Starbucks will reverse the steps in your order.
This term upside down at Starbucks is especially popular with the famous caramel macchiato, which starts with vanilla syrup and ends with caramel.
If a drink is ordered upside-down, this means the recipe for it is reversed.
Macchiato in Italian means “marked,” meaning that your milk is marked with espresso, creating a strong coffee flavor at first that gradually fades into sweet milk.
Or worse, they order it “upside down.” That isn't a caramel macchiato anymore.
It's an iced latte.
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