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.
Yeah but it has 400mg of caffeine.
Ask for the same in America and you get a 2 liter cup.
With mostly sugar in it
Then you got the good stuff, otherwise it’ll be high fructose corn syrup
Liter? That’s a quarter gallon or something.
Unless it’s soft drink, right?
Side note on American metrification:
I do enjoy that the online calorie/macro counting scene in the US seems to be using grams now.
Wait until they realise they can do g protein/100g instead of per serve or cup, or hogshead.
One day you bastards, one day…
US nutrition labels have used grams for my entire (over 30 year) life so that’s probably why everyone uses them for online macro counting.
And it’s like 80% milk.
And 15% sugar, wait no, high fructose corn syrup
No, it’s 40% milk, and 40% corn syrup.
And the rest is sugar
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.
If you don’t want that, just don’t order “Kaffee”. Every half decent bakery sells Espresso or Café Crèma, you just have to ask for it.
But worse
I’m sorry, but how?
It’s because they add milch instead of milk
Of all the things they’ve ever done, this is the most unforgivable.
Idk how, but the German coffee I’ve had had usually been worse than the American coffee I’ve had
Don’t get me started with coffee in France
huh, I don’t see anything wrong in here
coming from feddit.IT that’s how 😁
Europe is not uniform in this, as per usual. This is what you’ll get in southern Europe. In central Europe, you’ll get a really big one though.
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.
…Yes it does, Sprite, Schweppes, even the own-brand stuff you get in the shops is all called Lemonade colloquially.
It definitely does. In all my years ordering vodka lemonades I’ve always gotten a Sprite, Schweppes or R White.
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.
In the states, Sprite is a carbonated mildly lemon tasting soda pop. Lemonade is squeezed lemon and sugar, and maybe with something else like Strawberry, but fairly tart. And no carbonation, unless it’s specifically made with Seltzer or something. Or spoiled.
Lemonade is squeezed lemon and sugar, and maybe with something else like Strawberry, but fairly tart.
I don’t know about American lemonade being tart. Every lemonade recipe I’ve tried has a fuckton of sugar added to it. Even when I cut the amount by 1/3 it’s still super sweet.
Well, more than Sprite. But I do like it tart.
39% caffeine by volume
And it will be infinitely more tastyl then the swill I get in a dinner from the pot that has been stewing for hours…
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.
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.
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.
“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??”
I had the same experience with ordering vegetarian in eastern Europe. They asked me in 3 different restaurants “This has no meat, is that okay??” With a realy concerned look.
IMO, a french press coffee is pretty good. it gives the amount of coffee I want without making it overly strong like espresso. It also doesn’t make it taste like shit, a la mr coffee. when i drink coffee, i enjoy sitting and sipping my drink, not tossing back my coffee like it’s a shot of tequila.
A cortado is 4 OUNCES. I even made it American.
Is this the “Pocket Rocket” I keep hearing about? Small but packing more caffeine than all the uppers combined?
Continental Europe
Not here, You get whole 100ml (maybe more not sure) mug, full mug of a black Turkish coffee (it is strong and bitter)
