{"id":253353,"date":"2025-10-31T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253353\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:22:10","slug":"australians-riled-up-after-cringe-aussie-accent-attempt-for-discount-at-ccs-coffee-house-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253353\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians riled up after \u2018cringe\u2019 Aussie accent attempt for discount at CC\u2019s Coffee House in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">An American coffee chain\u2019s creative marketing campaign has garnered attention <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/news\/australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Down Under<\/a> \u2014 but not for the right reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">CC\u2019s Coffee House, based in Louisiana, gained traction online after footage of a promotional sign at one of their location\u2019s drive thru speaker post\u2019s was uploaded to TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cPlace your order in your best Australian accent. Get ten per cent off. Have fun with it,\u201d the sign stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">It was challenge accepted for one American women who pulled up to order with her friend filming from the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cAlright mate, can I please get a super grande iced white mocha decaf with oat milk? And can I have cinnamon on top?\u201d she asked in an accent that sounded more like a British-American mix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWas that Australian enough?\u201d she asks the staff member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">After a pause the worker replies: \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">An army of unimpressed Aussies shared their disappointment in the comments section, with many saying she didn\u2019t pass the test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cAs an Australia she didn\u2019t deserve that discount,\u201d one person said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cCringing in Australian right now,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI\u2019m appalled as an Australian,\u201d said a third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Another questioned: \u201cAs an Australian I would\u2019ve charged you extra $10 \u2013 what was that??\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An American coffee chain\u2019s creative marketing campaign has garnered attention Down Under \u2014 but not for the right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[59541,64,63,99,2065,1625,44,11298,3792],"class_list":["post-253353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-americas-usa","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-south-america","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}