“lmao”, as they say
in Japan they always make sure you know what you’re getting into when you order an espresso: “the cup is really small, is that ok??”
That’s because “A Coffee” means ‘an espresso’, as my Portuguese friend told me. She also told me that “Lemonade” doesn’t mean sprite like it does in the UK, much to my dismay when I asked for one in a restaurant.
Don’t know where you went, but Lemonade doesn’t mean Sprite in the UK.
I feel like you don’t know what real lemonade is because yeah you always get sprite or whites, if they think they’re being posh they’ll give you whites, which tastes exactly the same as Sprite so I don’t know what the point is.
It definitely does. In all my years ordering vodka lemonades I’ve always gotten a Sprite, Schweppes or R White.
…Yes it does, Sprite, Schweppes, even the own-brand stuff you get in the shops is all called Lemonade colloquially.
Americans generalizing the whole of Europe again. In Germany, a large coffee is certainly not the American size, but it’s also not the small Italian size.
And it’s usually filter coffee like the US unfortunately.
But worse
I’m sorry, but how?
And it will be infinitely more tastyl then the swill I get in a dinner from the pot that has been stewing for hours…
Ask for the same in America and you get a 2 liter cup.
With mostly sugar in it
Liter? That’s a quarter gallon or something.
And it’s like 80% milk.
And 15% sugar, wait no, high fructose corn syrup
No, it’s 40% milk, and 40% corn syrup.
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Is this the “Pocket Rocket” I keep hearing about? Small but packing more caffeine than all the uppers combined?
Yeah but it has 400mg of caffeine.
A cortado is 4 OUNCES. I even made it American.
Me : I’d like a black coffee please
USA : And how much whipped cream and sugar would you like with that?I know this is a joke but if you ask for black coffee or unsweet tea, you will get what you are expecting in most cases. They may ask as a courtesy if you want sweeteners or creamers with that because many people wish to sweeten their drinks themselves as they may prefer artificial sweeteners or wish to control their dairy or sugar intake for dietary reasons.
Unless you’re in the south you mostly don’t have to specify unsweet for the tea (unless it’s something that sometimes but not always comes with things mixed in like chai). Coffee should be that as well in theory but so many people drink it in different ways that if you just order a coffee or espresso or whatever you’ll get asked if you want it black (and dont get me started on restaurants asking if i want my martini w vodka ir gin). Chains have (or had, it’s been awhile for me) their own lingo as well, like at dunkin a “large regular” meant 2 creams and a sugar (or maybe 3 and 2, I can’t remember)
When they reach for the 16oz paper cup after i order a cortado…
I always used to get “should we leave room at the top for cream or sugar?” It makes sense since at that spot the cream and sugar are off to the side to be added by the customer. And black coffee was used to differentiate from the various flavored or specialty jawns.
But it always made me giggle that the simplest order in coffee needed clarification.
jawns
I’m a native English speaker and had never seen this one before. Apparently only used in eastern Pennsylvania
lol eastern pennsylvania. Its from philly.
Me: Just one small coffee thanks.
America:
They need it. Americans don’t get vacation days.
Naw, we get vacation. We are just told we have to ask for it a year in advance, told about 3mo prior whether it was approved, and are unable to use it in lieu of sick days (which we only get 8 or so yearly). Most of the country all work on the same days and times, and so we use vacation to take care of taxes, licenses, permits, etc. Then on top of that, our country is so damn big that travel usually costs more than a 3rd of the entire 1 week vacation.
No wonder they’re so angry all the time!
Actually, American chains like IHOP have coffee denial down to a science, the mug is just about as small as one could reasonably allow, and the ceramic is almost an inch thick. All because someone in middle management did some math in hopes of a promotion a few years down the road on how to save as much money as possible on coffee.
Bruh I was just at a Waffle House, they served coffee in perfectly normal ceramic cups, didn’t get any though, felt like the ever rarer Mr. Pibb instead
small as one could reasonably allow, and the ceramic is almost an inch thick
they better heat that cup with a blowtorch for 5 min. before they pour coffee in it or they will only be serving something akin to iced coffee
? Ceramic is the chosen material for mugs because it is a good insulator and will keep liquids warmer for longer. Thicker mugs will retain heat longer.
I think they meant that if the cup was cold when they poured the coffee in then it would cool the coffee down rapidly
And it comes with free refills
Free dishwater refills.
Tapwater, you don’t need to make shit up when shitting on the USA
I think it was more of a diss on the quality of the coffee in places with free refills.
I’m a bit of a coffee snob and nothing will beat my locally-roasted specialty coffee in my pour-over, but sometimes shitty diner coffee is what I want.
I have the same relationship with Little Caesars, sometimes you just want trash food and it’s all that will satisfy the craving
No not with coffee. Unless it’s just plain coffee with milk/cream and sugar, only fountain drinks and tea get free refills.
Unless it’s just plain coffee with milk/cream and sugar
Isn’t that…coffee?
The average american coffee is like 600 calories and has 20mg of caffeine
The average cup of coffee is a latte in the USA
But 200g of sugar!
200g of sugar is about 1800 Calories. In American units that’s 0.5 diabetuses
Yeah 20g is a lot for a serving in most things.
I grew up being told soft drinks were a dessert item, not a regular drink. So we only had it on special occasions mainly. Or at fast food once a week when we were older, sports nights usually, since my mom didn’t have time to cook those nights.
in the light version? yes!
I’m talking about that Starbucks/Dutch Bros. shit that all the white girls drink. It’s more popular than plain coffee in the US.
starbucks has no coffee. just some sugared fluid on which they insist it must be mixed with milk, one way or the other
Is it? I’m not the one downvoting here, I’m just not convinced. There’s still a lot of folks drinking drip coffee at home or at greasy spoon joints every day. Starbucks and the like is loudly popular but tons of folks still use the old drip machines or (ugh) cup/pod systems.
You ugh the old drip machine but not the cup/pod system? How dare! Kcups are an abomination and a symptom of everything wrong with this world!
A good drip machine is fine. Not great, but acceptable.
Yes but the topic is about restaurant drink sizes, not what people drink at home. In my experience I see people order fancy coffees more often than plain ones when I go out to eat. Regardless it doesn’t matter that much, cause it’s all anecdotal anyway.
Go to any dinner or breakfast restaurant and you’ll see the opposite.
When people “go to get coffee” they go to a café and likely get something more involved than drip coffee.
When they go to get breakfast and order a coffee it’s likely just regular drip and has free refills
That last sentence is the one. Until someone comes out with a study we’re not going to know because what we see is informed by where we choose to go. I’m not generally in places where you can buy fancy coffee so I don’t see it, but I sure hear about it. If we’re only going by what I see then hardly anyone drinks coffee and people order green tea shots at an alarming rate.
Yeah, I’m certain you’re right. It isn’t more popular. It’s more popular if you’re going out to a café, but most people are drinking drip coffee made at home. I would bet a lot of it still has that super sweet flavored “creamer” crap added though.
Most people think plain coffee tastes like the burnt shit sold at Starbucks. They’ve never tasted what coffee actually tastes like, so they buy cheap dark roast coffee and add a bunch of sugar to it because they bought the most bitter thing you can get.
You’re definitely not wrong there. There’s good coffee here but you’ve got to go out of your way to get it. I’ll have it from time to time, but I’m not a huge coffee drinker. I’m an unsweet tea guy. You know, or bourbon. I was inoculated by institutional government coffee years ago so nothing phases me.
“I said a small coffee, not a minuscule one!!”
Hehe :D
I wonder if the dumb americans ever realize we do that shit only to them. Muhahaha
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I drink a giant travel mug of black coffee every day. I have no excuse. It’s my only joy.
You should try sex and drugs.
Mid thirties. The sex would have to be mind blowing to replace even gas station swill at this point. Drugs it just depends, I need my brain for work.
That sounds like it’s not your joy, it’s the drugs you take to meet the unhealthy inhuman standards set by your shitty coercive masters.
Well I like my job, so no one has to twist my arm to do it. And I like the way coffee tastes. I like the texture. I like the warmth. As long as it’s a dark roast. Who knows? :)
Okay, so you’d still do coffee in post-scarcity?
I still recommend sex and real drugs for pleasure.
They’re clearly already doing drugs
Yes but good drugs!
Weed really mellows out the caffeine jitters but it can make you a bit sluggish so better fill up that coffee cup.
For mellowing out caffeine, I recommend l-Theanine and CBD.
Europeans don’t tolerate shit cheap robusto coffee. The brown sour water Americans drink is the typical quantity over quality model.
Americans mostly drink Arábica beans. The only Robusta coffee out here is in Vietnamese style coffee filled with a ton of condensed milk.
some of the cheap stuff like maxwell house is a mix of arabica and robusto.
Nonsense. Dunkin donuts, every office coffee maker, and most fast food coffee is robusta. That’s why people kill the taste with sugar and fat.
It’s burnt to hell. That’s why it’s like that. The cultivar doesn’t matter at that point. You could start with the best beans and it’d still be shit roasted like that.
The cultivar matters, but only when it’s roasted well. These huge coffee companies burn the coffee to ensure consistency. It doesn’t matter what they started with.
I feel like you might not actually know that much about coffee. You’ve heard two names and that one is supposed to be better (it isn’t, just different, and useful in different circumstances). You then stopped learning and think you know everything.
No?
We work with local coffee farms to grow our coffee, using only 100 percent Arabica coffee beans and the highest quality coffee available.
Lol idk when the last time I, an American, encountered robusta coffee except one time I had to order it from a specialty retailer online in order to try it. I have no idea what you’re talking about. Also, unless it’s specifically espresso, “good” European coffee is consistently worse than good American coffee. We just can’t do espresso well.
You know that America basically invented modern coffee culture that exists everywhere else now, right? We’re well beyond truck stop diner coffee.
Hell, even Mr Coffee was a great improvement for its time.
Edit: the next European who posts “you need to learn about other countries” while also thinking Starbucks is the only thing the US does for coffee gets . . . I dunno, maybe a gif of a cat falling off a fence.
Lol whut? Espresso, Cappuccino and Latte macchiato are Italian,
Drip filter coffee was invented in Germany as well as decaf Cold brew is Duch/Japanese Boiled Coffee is from the Middle East/North Africa Irish Coffee is from Ireland, but similar drinks are known with different names and different spirits at leas in France and Germany. The French Press is from France, first patented by an Italian
Instant Coffee from New Zealand Frappé is from Greece Iced coffee is from AlgeriaYou Americans might have invented abominations like Starbucks, but that’s not coffee culture worldwide. Noone I know drinks that stuff. There are somewhere around 100,000 and coffee bars in Italy alone, 31 of which are Starbucks built for American tourists. (Maybe it’s 35 by now). There are 10 times more traditional Cafés in Berlin alone, than Starbucks in all of Germany.
Americans did invent ruining coffee, though!
Starbucks is an abomination. They tried to launch in Australia in the 2000s and ended up losing loads of money and closing most of their stores.
They couldn’t compete with even our worst chain stores let alone our endless individual coffee shops.
Lol whut? Espresso, in particular, has been heavily developed over the past few decades with a greater understanding of things like water temperature and channeling. A lot of that started with American baristas.
Starbucks is what started it. It didn’t finish there.
Espresso, in particular, has been heavily developed over the past few decades with a greater understanding of things like water temperature and channeling.
dude…see the world, there is an entire industry of coffee machines in Italy since the 1920s. A hundred years ago. Starbucks was and is second rate shit for suburban moms.
Americans just turned coffee into hot desserts.
Which is a shame, because coffee should be a desert flavoring, and Starbucks is still trash.
I’m not even talking about Starbucks beyond them starting the second wave. Travel yourself. American coffee does not end with Starbucks.
If you’re going to continue that strawman, then there’s nothing left to discuss.
I just read about the “second wave” for the first time, and allegedly it was Starbucks’ idea to “transform coffee consumption into a social event instead of just consumption of coffee”.
But I can guarantee you, that that’s a purely American view, as coffee consumption has been a social event long before in the rest of the world. Fika in Sweden was a thing since the 19th century. Sospreso has been a thing in Italy a century before Starbucks copied it. I don’t know since when Kaffe und Kuchen is a thing in Germany, but my Gradma told me how her Grandma used to put out the white table cloth only for the Sunday Koffee. And she was long dead when Starbucks got their Idea of serving pastries with coffee. Austria got their first Kaffeehaus a century before the USA even existed. In Mecca, coffee houses were banned from 1512-1524 as they were too sociable for the imams who feard the politicization of the coffee drinkers.
And don’t get me started on the “third wave”, a marketing term coined by some hipsters in Los Angeles or New York to sell overpriced “specialty” coffee to other hipsters from San Francisco or Boston.
And I assure you, there’s more to it than just building a coffee chain.
Bro please stop. You are absolutely 100% wrong and have no idea what you are talking about. Just accept it as a an opportunity for uncovering some of the bullshit propaganda your patriot bubble creates.
Wait I was about to downvote you because it sounds like something that an AI would hallucinate but actually TIL that espresso drinks (not espresso) were actually modified and popularized by starbucks and peets and their versions, and not the Italian versions, are the ones that are most popular through the world
the fuck are you on about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso
The world doesn’t revolve around the fucknited states of no healthcare
Just stop. You’re not getting the nuance at all.
ironic, since there is very little nuance to the whippedcream “coffecintos” that starfucks serves
I really hate that we have to filter everything through “is this post just AI?”.
Edit: and when I said “Starbucks is what started it”, I was thinking more along the lines of Second Wave Coffee and how that’s led into everything else since, not just espresso. Starbucks isn’t considered top quality even in the US, but they should get credit for moving things along.
My personal favorite coffee shop, the one that makes absolutely stellar espresso, is from a guy who started it in a friend’s skateboard shop.
Italian coffee snob here. Even Starbucks coffee isn’t bad. They have a lot of stuff on the menu that frankly leaves me with more questions than answers, but you don’t have to order that. The filter coffee is way, way better than the average.
While I would recommend both learning about other countries as a general principle, and sending me a GIF of a cat, I’m finding it hard to come down on American coffee while living on a continent than thinks French coffee or German coffee is perfectly fine.
You know that America basically invented modern coffee culture that exists everywhere else now, right?
What language do you think espresso, cappucino, americano, latte, venti, etc. is?
You’re stuck on the original origin. That’s not where things have ended up. Espresso around the world is nothing like what it was in 19th century Italy. It’s not even what it was like in the late 20th century.
Do americans actually believe this shit or are you trolling?
I mean, Americans also believe they invented pizza, cars or putting meat into a breadroll.
Yeah, I’ve had someone make similar arguments with pizza before. Beats me
Oh, and btw. Mr Coffee was not an improvement, it was a copy of a device invented in Germany 20 years before, perfected by the Danish company EVA. Mr Coffee is unknown outside of North America because these devices already existed in the rest of the world.
Copying stuff from somewhere else is not a problem. China does it all the time and it’s fine. The problem with the Yanks is, that after copying stuff, they make it worse and afterwards claim they’ve invented it.
What made Mr Coffee unique wasn’t being the first drip machine. Its design was extremely cheap AND reliable. There’s a reason the design is still the most popular today.
Nothing else comes close.
Mr Coffee was not extremely cheap outside of America, it doesn’t even exist outside of America because the problem it solves was already solved by other companies outside of America.
I understand that it might have been a great improvement for the American coffee drinkers (I don’t know, I’ve never heard of Mr Coffee until yesterday because I’m not American), but it did nothing to influence “coffee culture everywhere else” as the OP boldly claims, because everywhere else is outside of America!
“you” may not have, but all your drip machines use it’s designs… Have a good day!
