Mom asks daughter for drive-thru order—has instant regret
A mother and daughter have gone viral for a simple yet effective prank at a Starbucks drive-thru that left both of them in stitches.
Tiahli Poeling-Oer, 25, a content creator from Brisbane, Australia, was on a coffee run with her mother, Mandy, 57, when she decided to create a wild addition to her order.
"Honestly was on the whim," Poeling-Oer told Newsweek, admitting it "just randomly popped into my head."
But that whim has led the pair to go viral, with a video shared to her TikTok account @tiahli.poelingoer viewed almost half a million times since being posted on December 5. In the clip, Mandy is just reaching the end of her order at the Starbucks drive-thru, when Poeling-Oer jumps in: "And can I also get a hugglepuff?"
Trusting her daughter, Mandy obliges and asks the voicebox for the completely made-up phrase: "And a hugglepuff, please."
But as soon as she's said it, she realizes something's amiss, and she turns back to Poeling-Oer with a baffled expression, at the same time the staff member asks: "And a what, sorry?"
Both Mandy and Poeling-Oer collapse into fits of laughter, Mandy apologizing to the staff member as he still tries to clarify their order. The video ends with Mandy asking, with a curse thrown in for good measure: "What the ... is a Hugglepuff?"
Poeling-Oer captioned the clip: "Hugglepuffs are now at Starbucks. Sorry Starbucks and sorry Mum!"
Speaking to Newsweek, Poeling-Oer said some commenters suggested her hugglepuff phrase "sounds like a reference from Harry Potter," referring to the Hogwarts house of Hufflepuff, "but honestly I just tried to jumble up some words in my mind and speak it and that's what came about, haha."
Starbucks is one of the most successful coffee chains in the world, being found on every continent apart from Antarctica, according to Statista. It has a worldwide revenue of over $36 billion, and over 40,000 Starbucks or Starbucks-owned stores worldwide — but does not, in fact, sell hugglepuffs.
TikTok users were in stitches at the video, one commenter asking: "Who else has watched this at least 20 times?"
"She didn't even hesitate, she trusted you fully," another pointed out, as one described it: "This is what trust looks like, it's now gone but that's what it did look like."
And one wrote simply: "Your mum seems like a legend," to which Poeling-Oer replied: "She is!"
Poeling-Oer told Newsweek she "didn't expect it to blow up as much as it did, but I'm so glad people found joy out of it and was able to make someone laugh."
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