After a day of internet hysteria, HBO acknowledged Monday that a craft services coffee cup had mistakenly appeared on last night’s episode of the medieval fantasy show Game of Thrones. “The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake,” the network said in a statement cited by Yahoo News correspondent Hunter Walker. “Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea.” Eagle-eyed fans spotted the anachronistic coffee cup in the feast scene of “The Last of the Starks,” and lambasted the show’s producers on social media for the gaffe.
HBO just issued a statement on the coffee cup in last night's Game of Throne: “The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea.”
