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Daily Talker: Coffee Cup Controversy

The festive red cups are back at Starbucks for the holiday season, but not everyone is happy with them.

An article posted to Breitbart.com calls the plain red cups the "War on Christmas," alleging that all signs of the holiday have been removed as the cups previously depicted images of ornaments and snowflakes.

Customers took to social media to voice their dipleasure.

One wrote, "I definitely think it could have been a little more happy and swirls or something on there."

"They'll destroy everything that they can get their hands on, even a simple cup of coffee", said another.

A third person cried: "Star-bah-humbugs!"

Starbucks didn't respond to a request for comment.

But its website says: "In the past, we have told stories with our holiday cups designs," Jeffrey Fields, the vice president of design and content for Starbucks, said on the company's website. "This year we wanted to usher in the holidays with a purity of design that welcomes all of our stories."

 

Do you think the new Starbucks holiday coffee cup design is anti-Christmas?

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