In an old 30 Rock episode, Jack Donaghy and Avery Jessup send out Christmas Cards with the most straight-forward of greetings:
“Happy Holidays…is what terrorists say. Merry Christmas, Avery and Jack.”
Former Arizona pastor and “public figure” Joshua Feuerstein is taking the same approach to Starbucks, which unveiled a new red cup design for the holidays.
With the green lady serving as his backdrop, Feuerstein recorded a video about the incident and posted it to his Facebook page.
“Do you realize that Starbucks wanted to remove Christ and Christmas off of their brand new cups?” Feuerstein asked viewers.
“I decided, instead of simply boycotting, why don’t we just start a movement?
“I went in, and I asked for my coffee. They asked for my name, and I told them, ‘My name…is Merry Christmas."”
Go on!
“So guess what, Starbucks? I tricked you into putting Merry Christmas on your cup. And I’m challenging all great Americans and Christians around this great nation: Go into Starbucks and take your own coffee selfie.
“And then I challenge you to not only share this video so that the word gets out, but let’s start a move and let’s call it – I don’t know – #MerryChristmasStarbucks.”
The thing is, I don’t believe Starbucks has ever put “Merry Christmas” on their cups.
I’ve seen snowflakes and winter designs that border on a Christmas theme without actually stating it. A Starbucks employee echoed my confusion on the video’s comment thread.
“I work at Starbucks and there hasn’t been anything innately Christmas on the cups in years,” barista Aaron Dean wrote, according to E! News. “Sure there have been snowflakes, scarves, and snowmen, but they haven’t said the word Christmas on them since I’ve worked here. We even have a Christmas blend coffee.”
By the way, is it me or does Feuerstein look a bit like Kevin James?
