Starbucks holiday cups: Looking back at more than decades of the iconic designs

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021
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A 1997 Starbucks holiday cup is displayed, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, at a Starbucks in New York. The Seattle-based company is celebrating 20 years of holiday coffee cups.
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For coffee lovers around the country, the holiday season kicks off not on Thanksgiving or the first week of December but when Starbucks unveils its iconic set of holiday-themed cups. See what the cups have looked like since they were introduced in 1997.

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