In Pour Your Heart Into It, by Howard Schultz, there is a lot of discussion about the bottled frappuccino from Starbucks. I have heard these taste better if you blend them with ice. I have never tried one, but maybe I will try to blend it one day at my store. Maybe in the summer.
"But coming up with the idea was the easy part. Actually getting Frappuccino into a bottle in the supermarket was a challenge. In our stores, Frappuccinos are made in a blender, with crushed ice. They also contain milk, which has a limited shelf life. The first few efforts at a bottled version tasted wrong. It took months of experimentation before our joint venture R&D teams came up with a shelf-stable Frappuccino that tasted as delicious as the blended ones in our stores."