Available in stores tomorrow, Starbucks Canada unveil the aroma of pecan pie, plus brown, buttery notes in their new collection of pecan-inspired beverages!

The Pecan Crunch Oat Latte also stirs up the age-old debate – how is the word pecan pronounced? According to Canadians – there may not be one right answer. A new survey commissioned by Starbucks Canada reveals that while nearly three quarters of Canadians (72 per cent) pronounce the nut as “Pee-Can,” one fifth of Canadians (17 per cent) are contrarians, pronouncing it as “Pee-Kahn.” Notably, a handful of Albertans, approximately eight per cent, indicate that “Puh-Can” is their preferred pronunciation.

Here is the lineup of Pecan Crunch beverages at stores in Canada starting September 19, 2024, for a limited time while supplies last:

Pecan Crunch Oat Latte – Made with Starbucks® Blonde Espresso and oat beverage, this fall beverage has layers of flavour including notes of nutty pecan, rich brown butter and holiday baking spices, and is finished off with a pecan crunch topping.

Iced Pecan Crunch Oat Latte – Nutty flavours of pecan, rich brown buttery notes and holiday baking spices come together with Starbucks® Blonde Espresso, ice and oat beverage for a smooth, flavourful treat, topped with nondairy vanilla cold foam and pecan crunch topping.

Salted Pecan Cream Cold Foam – Salted Pecan Cream Cold Foam offers customers another way to customize their favourite beverage with a sweet and salty fall twist! This cold foam is made with pecan syrup and salt. Also available as nondairy.

And that’s a wrap! What a wonderful TIFF this was! We’re quickly going to drop a line to say thank you to all of you for your amazing support, and also the generosity of our partners at the Festival who make it all possible for us! Also so grateful to our Team of Contributors: David Baldwin, Amanda Gilmore and Nicholas Porteous for their awesome reviews.

We’re crawling past the finish line and straight to the sauna for some overdue rest and relaxation. We were at it every single day of the Fest.

Our Official Partners

CP24 – For a 15th year in-a-row, we were a subject matter expert on films and star sightings at TIFF at the widely-watched news network, which also streams worldwide for free on their website CP24.com. In case you missed it, here’s a couple appearances we did:

HONDA CANADA – We were thrilled to continue our long-standing partnership with our friends at HONDA CANADA, allowing us to travel in style this TIFF in the 2024 Passport Trail Sport. In addition to getting us there every day safe and efficiently, it also served as a quiet oasis for us to take a quick nap, collect our thoughts and do our posts privately. So grateful for this powerful machine.

STARBUCKS CANADA – Starbucks Canada has been there for us for several TIFFs. So grateful to be fuelled by their Fall Menu selections, keeping us awake! While our fave always will be the Pumpkin Spice Latte, their Apple Crisp Nondairy Chai, Iced Caramel Apple Cream Latte, Baked Apple Croissant and Raccoon Cake Pops also are must-tries! Thrilled to give away gift cards to our Readers and Followers this TIFF, who were following our journey.

NIKON CANADA – We were thrilled to use the Nikon Z-30, a superb compact mirrorless camera with a range of lens options. We shot with a 50-250mm lens, helping us reach that bit closer to the stars. While we shoot on the go a lot on our phone, nothing beats the clarity and precision of actual camera on the red carpet!

OEB BREAKFAST CO. – Hands down, one of our favourite Brunch spots in the City, with two locations in Toronto. Two of our lucky Readers and Followers got to win gift cards to enjoy for themselves their greatness! They also now are an offcial TIFF Hospitality Partner too.

MINAMI TORONTO – Minami are an official TIFF Hospitality partner and did you know our queen Cate Blanchett was spotted there having lunch? There is no higher endorsement for their elevated, sophisticated Japanese fare. One of our Readers and Followers won a $100 gift card to enjoy a meal here.

LITTLE SISTER – With two beautiful locations in Toronto, this marriage of Dutch and Indonesian cuisine, with a phenomenal drink list is pure innovation. One of our Readers and Followers also won a $100 gift card to enjoy a meal.

SANDBANKS WINERY – Hailling from Prince Edward County, Sandbanks Winery  were a perfect way to wind down after this feverish dream of a Festival. Their Sparkling Rosé is perfect for evenings and this time of year I find myself gravitating to a nice sweet Riesling!

ETIKET – The goal of this luxurious beauty and wellness boutique is to provide everyone with a personalized, educational and friendly experience offering results oriented skin care and treatment services, niche fragrances, and luxury beauty products. We got to enjoy a freshening right before the Festival and also near the end. While we’re a little sleepy on the inside, you cannot deny that we LOOK rejuvenated!

UNIQLO CANADA – We are a huge fan of Uniqlo‘s style, comfort and quality, so it made perfect sense to partner with them. For all our TV appearances, we sported Uniqlo and Uniqlo only. Clothing that makes our lives better.

Congratulations to Ashley Smart who won our TIFF ’24 Surival Pack, featuring goodies from our partners!

-$25 Starbucks Canada Gift Card
-$50 Gift Card to OEB Breakfast Co.
-$100 Gift Card to MINAMI Toronto
-$100 Gift Card to LITTLE SISTER Portland St.
-3 bottles of Sandbanks Winery wines
-1 Uniqlo Quilted Shoulder Bag

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Mr. Will

We are so excited at all the possibilities the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival might hold. This is after all our first full-capacity TIFF in some time and some huge A-Listers and exciting emerging names will be here! We’ve seen all the roadblocks these past few years and it feels so good to know that nothing is standing in our way this time. This will be the TIFF that we all deserve!

We are delighted to announce to return of some of our longtime partners and new ones this year. TIFF ’24 runs September 4-14, 2024. The Team (David Baldwin, Nicholas Porteous and Amanda Gilmore) and I are thrilled to bring you our best coverage yet! New this year for us will be one-minute immediate reactions to some of the Festival’s key titles!

Team Mr. Will round-up their most-anticipated films of TIFF ’24. In what will finally be the TIFF we all deserve after many setbacks these past few years, it almost is a little tough to choose from a pool of so many great films!

DAVID BALDWIN (@DaveMABaldwin)

1. THE SUBSTANCE
2. ANORA
3. MEGALOPOLIS
4. SATURDAY NIGHT
5. QUEER

TIFF ’24 is here and I am positively pumped for the 11 days of Cinema ahead of us. My top five must-sees are films I have not stopped thinking about since they were announced and can barely hide my excitement for finally being able to have them blasted into my eyeballs. Even looking past those titles, there is so much to see at this year’s Festival that even if they somehow miss the mark, I know there are dozens more that are going to outdo every single one of my expectations. This year’s crop of films is shaping up to be an all-timer, so get ready for the best time of the year. Fingers and toes crossed that the Scotiabank Escalator does not fail us!

NICHOLAS PORTEOUS (@PICOLAS)

1. MEGALOPOLIS
2. FRIENDSHIP
3. THE LIFE OF CHUCK
4. THE BRUTALIST
5. UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

I’m thrilled for TIFF ’24 to be my first as an accredited member of the press, because it offers a MASSIVE trove of potential cinematic goodness. If I had to narrow my list of most anticipated movies down to five, and I do, I would start by giving a shout out to Matthew Rankin‘s Universal Language. After experiencing his absolutely cuckoo bananas debut, Mackenzie King “biopic” The Twentieth Century in IMAX at TIFF ’19, I’m ready to see absolutely anything with his name on it. Next up, Andrew Deyoung‘s Friendship. I’m a fan of Deyoung‘s short-form collaborations with Kate Berlant and John Early (check out “555” on Vimeo). On top of that, I cannot resist the potentially explosive comic chemistry between Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd. Although The Life of Chuck is another Stephen King adaptation from Mike Flanagan, it may represent a fun tonal departure for the two masters of terror, as Tom Hiddleston tumbles backwards through his life. The Brutalist is Brady Corbet‘s followup to his relatively unseen debut gem Vox Lux, which included one of Natalie Portman‘s best performances. It’s a three-and-a-half-hour period piece featuring Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones as Laszlo and Erzsébet Toth, who escape the Holocaust to make their way in America. Finally, Megalopolis is a long, long, longgggg gestating project of Francis Ford Coppola that he financed with his own (roughly) $135 million. Though word of mouth isn’t exceptionally positive, it promises to be a singular and completely unrestrained vision from a legendary Filmmaker. You will not find big swings like this every year.

AMANDA GILMORE (@GilmoreAmanda)

(in alphabetical order only)

ANORA
BABYGIRL
THE BRUTALIST
HERETIC
SATURDAY NIGHT

It’s already that time of year again! TIFFmas has arrived and this year packs a punch! After the strikes in Hollywood last year, TIFF just wasn’t the same. But this year, it will be in full swing and the films selected reflect it! There are so many names both behind and in front of the camera that’s making me anticipate a slew of great films. It’s been hard to narrow it down to only five. But below are my five most anticipated of this year’s Fest. I chose them because the talent involved and the stories being told are all unique from the next yet have gripped me since hearing about them!

MR. WILL (@mrwillwong)

1. ANORA
2. QUEER
3. SATURDAY NIGHT
4. NIGHTBITCH
5. BABYGIRL

We’ve already had the joy of seeing one of TIFF ’24‘s hottest tickets following all the buzz of its Palme d’Or victory at Cannes. ANORA is masterful storytelling, with a sublime breakthrough performance from its star Mikey Madison. Luca Guadagnino can do no wrong in my books, hence I am ecstatic that his latest, QUEER will be at the Festival. Addes bonus that it stars Daniel Craig. Anyone who knows me, knows that I adore SNL, so it should come as no shock I’m ecstatic Jason Reitman‘s telling of the late night staple gets its own origins story! And will this finally be Amy Adams‘ year? The six-time Oscar nominee is back after a hiatus with NIGHTBITCH, which has her convinced she is turning into a dog. Here for this. BABYGIRL received tons of praise in Venice, propelling it up my list with queen Nicole Kidman doing what she does best, embodying complex women and their intimate struggles.

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Announcing Mr. Will Wong‘s official TIFF partners for TIFF ’24

We would like to thank your supporters and partners for the Festival this year! What a star-studded group!

HONDA CANADA – We are thrilled to continue our long-standing partnership with our friends at HONDA CANADA, allowing us to travel in style this TIFF! We will be piloting the Passport Trail Sport – a gorgeous five-seater midsize SUV with an amazing combined fuel economy of 11.3 litres/100 km, running on a 3.5-litre, 24-valve, Direct Injection, SOHC, i-VTEC® V6 engine, at 280 horsepower. Fit for the fall, its seating is a black leather orange contrast!

STARBUCKS CANADA – Starbucks Canada have been there for us for several TIFFs and the Festival in a way for us has always been synonymous with their main character, a warm Pumpkin Spice Latte. But have you tried their Apple Crisp Nondairy Chai, Iced Caramel Apple Cream Latte, Baked Apple Croissant and endearing Raccoon Cake Pop? Readers and followers will get a chance to win some Gift Cards throughout the Festival. Be following our channels for more!

CP24 – For a 15th year in-a-row, we will be a subject matter expert on films and star sightings at TIFF. Stay tuned for our upcoming appearances on Southern Ontario’s most-widely watched news station! It streams worldwide for free on their website CP24.com. For now, we are appearing Labour Day in the 11 AM timeslot and Thursday, September 5, 2024 in the 8 AM timeslot!

NIKON CANADA – We are thrilled to be using the Nikon Z-30, a superb compact mirrorless camera with a range of lens options, made especially for creators, vloggers and streamers want. Crisp, clean 4K video will make our content pop more than ever! Can’t wait to show you our captures!

OEB BREAKFAST CO. – This is one of our favourite Brunch spots in the City and simply, our lives are better since they’ve come out east! Now with two locations in Toronto, their new partnership with TIFF as an official hospitality sponsor, also comes timed with new Fall menu items exclusive to Toronto for now, with additional cities to follow. More here.

MINAMI TORONTO – Situated right across from the excitement at TIFF Lightbox, this is a refined Japanese dining experience, chic and ambient for lunch or dinner. And their cocktails are sublime! You must try their world-famous Aburi (torched) Sushi and they just recently launched Sunday Afternoon AYCE Japanese BBQ. Book your tickets now here. Minami are an official TIFF Hospitality partner.

LITTLE SISTER – With two beautiful locations in Toronto – one within walking distance from all thr star-studded action on Portland St. – this very popular hotspot showcases a marriage of Dutch and Indonesian cuisine, with a phenomenal drink list. Dishes are made with authentic, imported herbs and spices. The perfect spot for an intimate dinner or casual drinks. More here.

SANDBANKS WINERY – Located in scenic Prince Edward County, Sandbanks Winery are a huge success story having launched in 2003 – just as I was a sorta newbie at TIFF – and very quickly have propelled to the upper echelon of Canadian wineries with offerings now readily available at LCBOs, a part of the ARTERRA Wines family. More here.

ETIKET – Everyone has different beauty needs and Etiket‘s goal is to provide everyone with a personalized, educational and friendly experience offering results oriented skin care and treatment services, niche fragrances, and luxury beauty products. In addition to an oustanding selection of products, Spa services also are available at their Toronto The Well location, now open. Etiket will be keeping our face fresh throughout the Festival and helping curating an olfactory experience for us.

UNIQLO CANADA – Not only are we a huge fan of Uniqlo‘s style, comfort and quality, this is our first TIFF collaborating with the globally-adored Japanese clothier. Fall is our favourite season and we cannot wait to wear some pieces from their latest collection at some of our appearances and snaps with the stars! Their round quilted shoulder bag is touted as the must-have accessory of the season! It stores everything!

Now for the even more exciting stuff! Keeping with our annual tradition, one lucky follower will be getting our amazing TIFF ’24 Survival Pack which includes:

-$25 Starbucks Canada Gift Card
-$50 Gift Card to OEB Breakfast Co.
-$100 Gift Card to MINAMI Toronto
-$100 Gift Card to LITTLE SISTER Portland St.
-3 bottles of Sandbanks Winery wines
-1 Uniqlo Quilted Shoulder Bag

Value: $400 CAN

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Happy TIFF!  We are so grateful for the support of the Team, our partners and you. Couldn’t do it with YOU!

Mr. Will

Exciting news! Starbucks Canada are launching their Fall menu sooner than you think! Starting August 22, 2024 these sre the exciting items you can expect, in addition to the return of the iconic PSL!

-Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice: The beverage that started the pumpkin spice craze more than 20 years ago and that can resist is back at Starbucks and continues to be its most popular seasonal beverage.

– The apple of your eye: Originating as a popular customer customization, the NEW Iced Apple Crisp Nondairy Chai features warming spice flavours of chai combined with creamy oat beverage and topped with silky, nondairy apple crisp cold foam.

– New seasonal in-app exclusives: Customers can also find two NEW fall beverages, exclusively in the Starbucks app: The Iced Caramel Apple Cream Latte i and nondairy Iced Honey Apple Almond Flat White.

– Bake your day with Autumn goodies: Joining the fall menu for a limited time while supplies last, the NEW Baked Apple Croissant and as a nod to one of the most ubiquitous animals in Canada, customers can enjoy the NEW Raccoon Cake Pop.

– Canada’s first Starbucks x Stanley: Along with new seasonal drinkware, the viral Starbucks x Stanley Quencher is making its way North of border for the first time. Google Trends indicate that Canadian searches for Starbucks Stanley Cups skyrocketed when they launched in the US so now we get our very own!

More fall favourites will be returning to the menu this year including the Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, the Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai, the Apple Crisp Oat Macchiato along with seasonal sweet and savoury food items in the bakery case!

This is not a drill! A refreshing twist is returning to the Starbucks beverage lineup. Cool Lime Starbucks Refreshers® Beverage, one of the original and most beloved Refreshers beverages, is making a juicy comeback, and just in time for a lime green Brat summer.

Starting August 13th, the citrusy sensation will be available at Starbucks stores across Canada for a limited time while supplies last, along with the NEW Lime Coconut Drink, Cool Lime Lemonade Starbucks Refreshers® Beverage and Spicy Lime.

In 2012, Starbucks launched the Cool Lime Refreshers Beverage globally as one of its first-ever Refreshers Beverages, which delivered a distinctly new take on thirst-quenching refreshment while providing a natural boost of energy from green coffee extract and real fruit juice.

After leaving the menu in 2019, the Cool Lime Refreshers Beverage has amassed a massive following of loyal Canadian fans who’ve launched online petitions and regularly take to social media clamouring for a comeback. In fact, Starbucks has received more requests for it than any other beverage on the menu.

Here’s what you need to know about the returning and new beverages:

· Cool Lime Starbucks Refreshers® Beverage is a lively blend of lime flavour, shaken with ice and a real lime slice. It’s a delicious pick-me-up delivering zesty hydration. Caffeinated with Green coffee extract and served over ice, this is the pick-me-up your afternoon is calling for.

· For customers that enjoy the delightful zing of lemonade, NEW Cool Lime Lemonade Starbucks Refreshers® Beverage is a bright and refreshing beverage combining Cool Lime Starbucks Refreshers® base, mint flavour and a real lime slice shaken with ice and lemonade.

· The NEW Lime Coconut Drink adds creamy coconut beverage to the Cool Lime Refreshers® beverage for a bright and dreamy sip.

· Continuing to build on the ‘swicy’ trend with the return of Starbucks line-up of Spicy Lemonade Starbucks Refreshers beverages, the new Spicy Lime brings together flavours of zesty lime and lemonade with a Spicy Chili Powder Blend that awakens the senses. A refreshing escape with plenty of heat!

Say hello to summer with a splash of our oh-so-cool new seasonal icon! Three new Starbucks- Refreshers® Beverages feature a cool combination of summer berries that is bright blue with new, juicy raspberry pearls!

Summer-Berry Starbucks Refreshers® Beverage features a sweet and summery blend of raspberry, blueberry and blackberry flavors shaken with ice and poured over a layer of new popping raspberry flavoured pearls.

Summer-Berry Lemonade Starbucks Refreshers® Beverage is bright and refreshing. The drink combines Summer-Berry Refreshers shaken with ice and lemonade and poured over a layer of popping raspberry flavoured pearls.

Summer Skies Drink is a dreamy sip that’s bursting with fruity flavour. The non-dairy beverage features Summer-Berry Refreshers creamy coconut beverage poured over ice and a layer of new popping raspberry flavoured pearls that bring a burst of raspberry flavour.

The new raspberry flavoured pearls add a pop of flavour and colour and will be a first for Starbucks menus in the U.S. and Canada. The beverage development team at Starbucks drew inspiration from drinks around the world, with Starbucks stores in Asia Pacific having tapped into the trend in recent years, offering a Dark Caramel Coffee Sphere Frappuccino with bursting coffee spheres and a Peach Plum Pearls Oolong with plum-flavoured pearls.

The new pearls build on Starbucks leadership and innovation in textured beverages, which has been on the menu since 2012 with the global debut of Starbucks Refreshers® Beverages, known for their real fruit pieces of strawberry pineapple and dragonfruit (which most recently got a spicy kick!).

Enjoy any of the new summer beverages with the new Pineapple Cloud Cake, an airy cake layered with a lightweight pineapple cream and pineapple spread, including whole fruit pieces, topped with a sweet drizzle, so every bite feels like a summer oasis.

Additionally, Starbucks is introducing a new line of vibrant, summer-inspired drinkware. From cold cups in a variety of trending colours and prints, to ever-popular iridescent bling cold cup, Starbucks summer merchandise is the perfect addition for any sun-soaked moment.

Three new Spicy Lemonade Refreshers beverages will be available in Starbucks stores in Canada for a very limited time this spring, while supplies last, beginning tomorrow Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

· Spicy Strawberry brings together sweet flavours of strawberry and acai shaken with ice, real strawberry pieces, zesty lemonade and Starbucks Spicy Chili Powder Blend.

· Spicy Dragonfruit combines sweet flavours of mango and exotic dragonfruit shaken with ice, real dragonfruit pieces, zesty lemonade and Starbucks Spicy Chili Powder Blend.

· Spicy Pineapple features flavours of pineapple and passionfruit shaken with ice, real pineapple pieces, zesty lemonade and Starbucks Spicy Chili Powder Blend.

Customers can also enjoy the new Spicy Cream Cold Foam, which combines the new Spicy Chili Powder Blend with Starbucks classic, silky cream cold foam. Try adding Spicy Cream Cold Foam to a Cold Brew for a coffee with a kick, or enjoy it with an Iced Chai Tea Latte for a delicious combination of spices.

Exciting stuff! Starbucks Canada have announced their Spring 2024 menu with new and returning favourites – including one which now is permanent! All items are available now!

Here’s everything you need to know:

LAVENDER FIELDS FOREVER – Starbucks is introducing lavender to the spring menu as the latest innovation and unique experience that brings floral hues and delicate aroma with every sip. The beverage development team at Starbucks took a trip to a lavender farm in Washington state, inspiring two new iced lavender beverages.

The NEW Iced Lavender Cream Oat Matcha features smooth and creamy matcha and oat beverage, served over ice and topped with sweetness and subtle floral notes from Starbucks newest innovation – lavender cream cold foam. This combination is spring in a cup​, bringing a refreshing feeling to each sip.

The NEW Iced Lavender Oat Latte combines smooth Starbucks® Blonde Espresso, creamy oat beverage, ice and a touch of lavender for the perfect cup of rejuvenation.

MATCHA MADE IN HEAVEN – Matcha has grown in popularity, with the Matcha Tea Latte being one of Starbucks most popular and fastest growing beverages in Canada. Starbucks uses 100% matcha green tea powder, sourced from some of the oldest producers in the world for an authentic experience. To meet the demand for matcha, Starbucks is re-introducing this springtime delight.

IT’S BACK – Exclusively available in Canada, the Iced Strawberry Oat Matcha Tea Latte ​has returned for its second year and it’s here to stay with a permanent spot on the menu so customers can enjoy it year-round.

SPRING SPIRIT – Customers can showcase their beverages in new drinkware that brightens up any moment. From multi-coloured pastel cold cups to solid color curved hot cups, this vibrant collection will help get you in the mood for warmer months ahead.

Starbucks Canada introduces their Oleato Olive Oil beverages in Canada tomorrow, January 30, 2024!

The NEW Oleato Golden Foam Iced Shaken Espresso with Toffeenut makes its debut, featuring Starbucks Blonde espresso combined with notes of warm toffeenut and creamy oat beverage, topped with lush vanilla sweet cream that is infused with Partanna extra virgin olive oil.

The NEW Oleato Oat Latte is also available at all stores nationwide in Canada. The beverage is made with Starbucks Blonde Espresso Roast, a light roast that is smooth and subtly sweet, is infused with Partanna extra virgin olive oil and steamed with creamy oat beverage to create a velvety smooth, deliciously lush latte. Available iced or hot.

Any Starbucks iced beverage can also now be customized with Oleato Golden Foam, a lush vanilla sweet cream infused with Partanna olive oil. Recommended customizations are available in the Starbucks app, including an
Iced Chai Tea Latte with Oleato Golden Foam and a Dragon Drink Starbucks Refreshers Beverage with Oleato Golden Foam.

Partanna created a highly curated blend of extra virgin olive oil from the finest Mediterranean olives, including the high-quality Nocellara del Belice (also called Castelvetrano) olives from Partanna, Sicily. The blend was thoughtfully selected to pair perfectly with Starbucks Blonde Roast, which is then skillfully infused in the beverage to unlock a smooth and delicious experience like no other

Starbucks first debuted Oleato in Italy in February 2023. The drinks are also available in 8 markets around the world, including Italy, U.S., Canada, Japan, UK, and France.

This year, the iconic Pumpkin Spice Latte turns 20 and we’re ready to pumpkin like it’s 2003!

HBD PSL Temporary Tattoos

To get the PSL party started, customers who purchase a Pumpkin Spice Latte (hot, iced or blended) on October 10 at participating stores in Canada will receive a sheet of temporary tattoos, while supplies last. Fans can deck themselves out with a PSL-themed temporary tattoo sleeve or share their ink with family and friends so the whole squad can flex their love for Pumpkin Spice.

KidSuper + Starbucks Team PSL Limited-Edition Varsity Jacket

In the spirit of sentimentality, Starbucks has also teamed up with KidSuper Studios to drop a limited-edition Team PSL Varsity Jacket. The jacket is a true celebration of PSL fandom, featuring top expressions of fan love, and will be available to pre-order at KidSuper.com/TeamPSL beginning October 10, 2023 at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET, while supplies last. Read more about the collaboration here.

Jam Out to Iconic 2003 Tunes In Stores

And what’s a party without some tunes? On October 10, Starbucks stores will also be playing a curated playlist of 2003’s most popular hits, transporting customers to the year PSL was born.

PSL Fun Facts

Over the years, the PSL has developed into a cultural phenomenon, and we wanted to share 20 fun facts (link live at 9am ET on Oct 9) in celebration, with a few highlighted below:

·       Canada was one of the first markets to trial the PSL. The PSL started out as a trial run in about 100 stores across Vancouver, B.C. and Washington, D.C. in 2003, before officially launching across the U.S. and Canada the following year.

·       Customers want ice with their Pumpkin Spice. To address the ever-growing popularity of PSL, Starbucks released different variations to keep up with the love of the fall flavour. In 2019, the Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew joined the roster, and just this year the customer-inspired Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai Tea Latte was released.

·       Yes, there is real pumpkin in the sauce. In 2015 Starbucks began including pumpkin sauce from real puree made from sweet little kabocha pumpkins, making the PSL what it is today.

·       FHL who? The name that never was. The Pumpkin Spice Latte was almost known as the Fall Harvest Latter (FHL).

You can enjoy Starbucks PSL and other Fall Menu offerings all season long!