The Post can confirm that the popular coffee chain Starbucks is switching up its ... smaller and denser than cubes, kind of like crushed ice — think of the iced drinks at Sonic.

Crushed ice sounds refreshing, but what about violently smashed ice? That’s what someone is getting in this viral Starbucks TikTok, showing a barista pummelling a sink full of ice into submission.

"I love it. Crushed ice is my fave," one person wrote. "They chew very easily, so very yummy," added another user, who said they work at another of the Starbucks cafes testing out the new kind of ice.

New Starbucks cups. "No water" fees on Refreshers ... melts fast and waters down the drink," said another. "I love it. Crushed ice is my fave. I wonder if it’ll have any impact on beverage ...

Now Starbucks has entered the fray ... a sherry cobbler. Then, there’s crushed ice (ideal for mint juleps), shaved ice and those clinky, large, slow-melting cubes or spheres that open up ...

Nugget ice, akin to the crushed ice found in drinks at Sonic, sparked a heated debate after a Reddit thread surfaced, allegedly started by a Starbucks employee who shared a picture of the pebble ...

Starbucks appears to be making some fairly ... “Here’s where pellet ice differs from crushed ice, with which it is often erroneously conflated: the compression of the nuggets creates flaky ...

UNDATED (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Starbucks is changing a key ingredient of its cold drinks. The coffee shop giant is making a change to its ice cubes, replacing the current cubes with smaller ...