Anyone for coffee? Or: what’s in a name (getting old?)
Posted by jontee on 16 January 2008
Am i alone in still bridling at having to ask for a ‘regular americano’ rather than a simple ‘black coffee’?
Don’t get me wrong. I am truly grateful that britain finally has good coffee- I remember the weak, tasteless instant that passed for ‘coffee’ in the 80s. But why the silly, pretentious names for it. ‘latte’? What’s wrong with calling it ‘white coffee’?!
And what do they call black coffee in America i wonder?
Anyone with me on this? Or am I just (becoming?) a stuck in my ways curmudgeon?
jethrotull said
I think you should write to the daily mail with this one – its the kind of cutting edge journalism they’d go for.
jontee said
So I guess that’s a ‘yes you’re getting old’
Matt said
I’m with you on the Starbuckspeak. I like to ask for a “medium filter coffee please”, just to see whether I get thrown out, or arrested.
Sarah said
I bridle at this too. In fact, the whole lactification of coffee in this country appalls me. I’m not a vegan, but I don’t want vaguely coffee flavoured milk, I want coffee with a little milk, please. So white americano, not latte (or larrtay, as so many peoplelike to say)or cappuccino which in this country is completely indistinguishable from a latte. And what is it with the sizes? Since when did small become tall, medium become grande etc., etc..