It was bound to happen sooner or later: A Starbucks barista, either having misheard the name “Virginia” or unable to spell it, wrote “Vagina” on a customer's cup.
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The image above was snapped by Virginia Goh after she received her drink order at a Starbucks in Hong Kong; it was then posted on the Starbucks Facebook page by her sister Veronica, who complained.
Veronica Goh said that it wasn't the first time Virginia's name was mangled by baristas.
“Her cup was once 'Virgin.' Every Starbucks experience for her has been coupled with fear and anticipation. But THIS is just UNACCEPTABLE,” she wrote.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.