Can you believe it’s that time of year once again? Costa has unveiled its festive food and drink menu for 2024.
The popular coffee shop chain is known and loved for its limited-edition seasonal menus each year, and now, with the countdown to the big day officially on, Costa has given fans what they’ve been waiting for as it’s unveiled its festive food and drink offering for 2024 – with a whole host of brand-new treats, as well as some returning fan favourites on the lineup.
It’s absolutely packed full of hearty soul foods and indulgent goodies to get you properly get you in the Christmas spirit.
This year, it’s all about the new Caramel Nutcracker drinks range, which is described as being a “dreamy blend” of caramel, nutty notes, and holiday magic, and is available either as a latte (hot or iced) or a rich hot chocolate.
Costa has unveiled its Christmas food and drink menu for 2024 / Credit: Costa
Also new to the festive drinks offering this year is the Festive Spice syrup, which is suitable for vegans and adds “a touch of warmth” to any barista-made drink of your choosing.
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Other festive drinks on the menu this year include the comebacks of three absolute Costa Christmas classics – the Gingerbread & Cream Latte, the Terry’s Chocolate Orange Hot Chocolate, and the Black Forest Hot Chocolate, with the latter also available in Frappe form for the first time this year.
If you fancy tucking into a festive feast to go along with your limited-edition drinks, then this year’s food range includes the new Brie & Cranberry Toastie, which is oozing with brie and cranberry, encased in a malted cranberry bread, alongside the return of the ever-popular Pigs & Blankets Toastie, the Turkey & Trimmings Toastie, and the hearty Hog Roast Toastie too.
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The coffee shop chain is known and loved for its limited-edition seasonal menus each year / Credit: Costa
The Christmas classic Turkey Feast Sandwich, and the Brie, Bacon and Chilli Jam Panini are two other returning gems for 2024.
For those with a sweet tooth, there’s some new indulgent cakes and biscuits too, including the Chocolate and Caramel Nutcracker Cake, the Berry Red Velvet Mini Loaf, and the Iced Gingerbread Snowman biscuit, as well as the beloved Bakewell Tart having a festive makeover especially for the turn of the season.
There’s Festive Spice Lattes, Hog Roast Toasties, and loads of returning festive favourites / Credit: Costa
For plant-based customers, Costa has teamed up with BOSH! again to introduce two new vegan sweet treats – the decadent Billionaire’s Slice, and the Winter Berry Crumble topped with cinnamon spice for pure festive comfort food.
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On top of that, both the All Butter Mince Pie, and the Gluten-Free Vegan Mince Tarts, are back for another year too.
The 2024 Christmas menu will be available at all Costa branches and Costa self-serve machines nationwide, and will begin its roll-out from Thursday 7 November.
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TikTok star turned pop star Addison Rae announces gig in Manchester
Thomas Melia
Viral TikTok star and now recording artist, Addison Rae, has announced her first-everheadline European tour, where she’ll be paying Manchester a visit, and tickets go on sale this week.
After launching into the music scene back in 2021 with pure pop single, ‘Obsessed’, Addison made her pop star intentions very clear.
Since then, Addison has gone on to work with high-profile artists such as Charli XCX, who appears as a feature on track ‘2 Die 4’ taken from her first EP, ‘AR’.
Addison also contributed to the inescapable phenomenon of last year that was ‘Brat Summer’, appearing on the aforementioned A-list artist’s Brat remix album, on a reworking of the hit ‘Von Dutch’.
With more than 88.5 million followers on TikTok alone and north of 35 million on Instagram, it goes without saying that her legions of ‘Sunraes’ (yes, a real term used by some in the community) will be lining up to get tickets to her UK tour dates.
Now the singer is ready to take the world by storm, confirming a US and European tour following the release of her debut album, simply titled Addison.
This LP, which features standouts like smash single ‘Diet Pepsi’, ‘Aquamarine’ and ‘Fame Is A Gun’, has been met with rave reviews from fans and critics alike.
The fledgling 24-year-old American-born pop star is a big fan of the UK, so much so that one of the singles from this very debut album, ‘Headphones On’, includes a music video dedicated to frozen food retailer Iceland.
See for yourself…
Addison Rae is set to bring ‘The Addison Tour’ – her first on the continent and here in Britain and Ireland – to Manchester Academy on 30 August, with general admission going on sale this Friday, 20 June.
So, if you’re a fan, get ready to grab yours HERE.
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More than half of Brits agree that dating apps should let you filter by height
Emily Sergeant
A new survey has revealed that more than half of Brits agree that dating apps should let you filter people by height.
There’s no two ways about it, to some people, size matters… and by ‘size’ we mean height.
If you haven’t heard the news or seen the ongoing discourse on social media yet, dating app Tinder caused a bit of a stir when it announced last week that it would be starting to let its users filter their potential matches by height – which many have been quick to brand as ‘disadvantaging’ for those who are considered.
More than half of Brits agree that dating apps should let you filter by height / Credit: Good Faces Agency (via Unsplash)
Despite this, it seems men and women are both in agreement, as a new YouGov survey has revealed that 56% of men and 55% of women think that dating apps should allow people to decide what heights are suitable for them.
In fact, the number of men (23%) disagreeing with this is actually slightly lower than the number of women (29%), even though it’s seen as more of a disadvantage to men.
While height has been the big talking point in recent days, there’s also a couple of other factors included in the YouGov survey, and it’s these that appear to have divided the public more in their responses.
Should dating apps let users filter by height? Most women say yes – and so do most men
Women: 55% say yes Men: 56% yes
Women who have ever used dating apps: 67% yes Men who have ever used dating apps: 62% yes
Just over half (51%) of men who responded to the survey support allowing dating app users to filter by how heavy their potential partner is, while this figure falls to just 36% among women, and among the younger age group of 18-29 year olds, 68% of women say they are opposed to it.
Men in that age group are also the most likely to be against weight filtering too, coming in at a 38% opposition, but nevertheless, 51% of young men still do tend to think it’s a legitimate metric for choosing potential partners.
When it comes to other attributes, the public tend to say that dating apps should allow users to filter people by their education level at 48%, but not by their income, which only 29% see as appropriate.
Emily Sergeant -
23rd October 2024 
