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Unicorn Frappuccino Triggers Barista Breakdown
It's not that he doesn't think the drink is good. It may be too good — especially when so many are ordering it.

It turns out that one man's unicorn is another man's albatross. Just ask Braden Burson, a 19-year-old Starbucks barista in Colorado who has been drowning in a tsunami of blue and pink frappuccinos. Starbucks is serving its "Unicorn Frappuccino" — a color-shifting, taste-changing drink — for just five days and, apparently, baristas can't make them fast enough.
"I don't normally do this," he says in a video posted on his Facebook page. "I need to rant just a little."
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And rant he does.
In the span of 1:39, you get a sense very quickly of the stress he is feeling.
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It's not that he dislikes the drink. It's that he's having trouble with how popular it is.
"I've never made so many frappuccinos in my entire life," he says. "It's insane."
He says people were coming in through the front, through the drive-through, and they all seemed to want one.
"It's difficult to make," he says. "Please don't get it. "My hands are completely sticky. I have unicorn crap all in my hair and on my nose.
"I have never been so stressed out in my entire life."
Watch Braden's "Rant"
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