Man Who Sounds Like He’s Straight Out Of ‘The Sopranos’ Goes Viral For “Coffee Hack”

This guy is playing chess while the rest of us are playing checkers.

And he also might accidentally be a real life Sopranos character, but that’s neither here nor there. What is both here and there is this coffee hack that this New Jersey man (just assuming based on his voice) figured out, and opted to share with the world. I’ve got a feeling that all of the big chain coffee places are shaking in their boots as this video goes more and more viral.

As the story goes, this guy got sent out to buy his wife a coffee. He wanted a little pick-me-up as well, which nurtured the perfect opportunity to get a 2-for-1 coffee at Starbucks – or as he hilariously called it, “Five Bucks.” Was there a deal going on that day at Starbucks? Nope. Did he have a coupon code? Not really. “Well then how did he get two drinks for the price of one?,” you must be asking?

He ordered an iced coffee with no ice.

That’s right. He got two cups of ice on the side, and one full-sized coffee. I’m not going to give attention to the names of the Starbucks sizes… just say small, medium and large. You aren’t better than other coffee shops just because you use fancy, Italian names (excuse me while I step down off my soap box to continue).

He explained his drink ordering strategy to his son, who was behind the camera as the father proudly showed off his coffee magic trick – turning one cup of coffee into two:

“I want to teach you something. What you do is this. You order a coffee, no ice, right?… This cost me six bucks. Look at this. I got two coffees. Your mother is happy, I’m happy, and guess what? It only cost me five bucks.”

Brilliant work… and made all that much better with the thick, Jersey accent. If only we could hear him say, “Gabagool.”

The same can sort of be accomplished with hot coffees, only in those cases, you have to ask for no whipped cream. I imagine baristas start licking their lips knowing how much they are about to rip you off when you say “yes” to the whipped cream option. Just as someone making an iced coffee is happy to go overboard with the ice, someone will have a grand ole time making a hot coffee that’s actually 70% whipped cream.

Teach a man to fish and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to turn one iced coffee from Starbucks into two iced coffee and he’ll stay caffeinated and, more importantly, he’ll stay married. The happy wife-happy life mantra is very much real, and this guy just put on a masterclass when it comes to a) saving money and b) making your significant other happy.

And frankly, I need more of this guy and his son in my life. Get the “Costco Guys” out of here and feed me some more life hacks from this Tony-Soprano-type.