Starbucks has always served venti Caffè Lattes in Beijing’s Forbidden City. (Class of 2022, #34)

The Starbucks in the Forbidden City closed in 2007.

After making dumb mistakes like this year after year, you’d think the Mindset crew would bother doing some fact-checking. When I Googled “starbucks forbidden city,” the entire first page of results was about the Starbucks closing in 2007. The BML authors claim it takes them “between three and six months”(!) to create the list, but they can’t bother to make a few cursory web searches?