Texas Starbucks customer fumes over illegal joke that barista wrote on her cup: Its offensive

A Texas Starbucks customer claims she and her culture were the target of an “offensive” joke written on the lid of her drink by one of the store’s employees.Blanca Lopez, who is Hispanic, ordered a horchata latte during a trip with her two daughters to the Starbucks inside the Irving, Texas Target store on June 23, CBS Texas reported.One of Lopez’s daughters noticed their mother’s cup had a message scribbled in black marker across the clear lid, an abnormality for a company known for writing customer names on the side of its products.“What do you call a sick eagle?” the cup asked, according to a photo obtained by the outlet.“Illegal,” the riddle answered.Lopez was left in shock by the joke written on her order.“It’s basically saying that we are sick, illegal individuals that do not belong in this country,” she told the outlet.Lopez recalled her confusion when she first saw the message, unsure if the note was a light-hearted joke or an attack on her identity.“When I read it, I’m like, OK.

Was I supposed to laugh or what do I need to do?” she told the outlet.“Why did they call me that? Why are they asking if I have papers or no papers? Why did she write this?” she added.

“For me, like, it’s offensive.”Lopez said the joke hit close to home as she had friends and relatives deported because they were in the country illegally.In January, 84 illegal immigrants were arrested during an ICE raid in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to Fox 4.The outraged customer reported the joke to the store’s manager, who told her there would be a team meeting to ensure it didn’t happen again, CBS Texas reported.Lopez called for the unidentified barista to be fired over the comment.“I work as a manager.If someone on my team did something like that, I would fire her immediately,” she said.Community activists soon heard about the story and began planning a gathering at the store to meet the “author of the offensive joke,” Dallas-base...