Meanwhile in America:
as someone who doesn’t like coffee I can tell you what she’s drinking is also coffee
Coffee flavoured dessert.
When 90% is some form of cream or sugar, that’s not coffee
Blacker than a moonless night. That is coffee.
Yes
I like coffe the same way I like chocolate, extremely dark. Not because I think it makes me better, I just like the bitter earthy taste of dark chocolate and black coffee :3
I mean, I prefer light roasts where the coffee is more dark brown. But coffee is coffee. It needs no additives. Unless you’re talking about a pinch of salt to add to a cold brew.
Reminds me of this cyanide and happiness skit
That’s not dessert, that’s more calories than a family of 5 needs in a week.
It appears to be 2 large caramel frappuccinos coming in at 470 calories apiece. So 940 calories.
Although I’m not very familiar with Starbucks drinks so could be something else.
Lot of calories to drink still
“American dessert” - is that more accurate?
it’s spelled Rebbekahh.
Starbucks = hot Dairy Queen
The same coffee + a gallon of water:
American coffee!
Not really, you’re forgetting half a galon of sugars, syrups, creams and spices
the americano is named for the us soldiers stationed in italy during wwii who would pour water into their espresso because it was “too strong”. it’s one part espresso to four parts water.
Probably not true? Though Wikipedia isn’t an authoritative source obviously:
There is a popular belief that the name has its origins in World War II when American G.I.s in Italy diluted espresso with hot water to approximate the coffee to which they were accustomed. However, the Oxford English Dictionary cites the term as a borrowing from Central American Spanish café americano, a derisive term for mild coffee, dating back to the middle of the 1950s. Its first use in English appeared in the Jamaican newspaper The Sunday Gleaner in 1964. The term caffè americano entered Italian later than the English or Spanish uses, suggesting the term originates outside of Italy.
yeeeeah but it gets their panties in a twist
Fair enough :)
This is the same logic that elected Donald Trump
i think we need to update godwins law
Yes for the Starbucks addicts and electric wand users, but even black coffee consumers are drinking some mild bean water instead of proper coffee. Even our espresso is weak af most of the time.
how do you measure strength of coffee? caffeine content?
Yeah caffeine content for something you could measure but I was more talking about flavor. Shit beans are very common in the US but we also use more water and fewer beans so even when you get good coffee it just feels a bit diluted, even black. At least from restaurants and cafes, I’m perfectly happy with most home brewed coffee here as long as it’s not like foldgers from a clock/coffee maker combo, even some of cupped Keurig-like stuff is okay. I feel like our cold brews are decent too.
Espresso doesn’t just have a high concentration of caffeine, it also has a high concentration of every other part of the coffee bean.
It has less caffeine because it extracts quickly under pressure. Strength = flavor
Yup. That said, espresso also uses more coffee per amount of liquid, and the amount of caffeine is basically a function of the amount of coffee and how long it’s in contact with the water.
the worst was old percolated coffee people drank in the 60s-70s, just bitter and caffeine.
true, hence the high pressure through compressed grounds
I just want something to sip on through my morning. 3 cups of drip coffee with milk lasts a few hours.
I do decaf when I drink too much regular coffee, it’s allowed 😺
I have a moka pot at home for an afternoon espresso, but when I have to plow through emails or set up files or drive to work, I want something that I can sip on for awhile. Sure I could have a tea, but drop coffee is very pleasant for that situation. It’s like nursing a beer versus a shot of vodka.
but not with milk after 11! 🤌
Of course not 🤌🏼 , only tourists do that!
Hydration is important!
But there’s more caffeine in that than in the gallon jug full of syrup and milk you get in the US.
We probably have as many normal cafes here as we have sugarbomb-starbucks corpo type places, especially in the cities. They’ll serve you a 12oz or 16oz black coffee and you add what you want into it at a self service counter. I usually add a splash of oat milk.
“Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as love”
Coffee is brewed in ratios of beans:water that varies depending on the style being made. An espresso in Europe should be more or less the same size as an espresso in the states. Same for pour over, cold brew, lattes, etc
At least we make real coffee instead of tea with coffee flavor
The coffee machine at work allows you to queue up cappuccinos, so I can fill my mug with a double.
Espresso espresso cappuccino at my office. But no queue, just people giving me side eye as I keep pressing buttons.
Haha, amazing
the coffee machine has the button for a normal cup labeled “☕☕”
aggrandizing little shit.
That full to the brim mini-shot cup is literally more quantity than a short expresso.
Europeans don’t like taste that’s the problem
Stole the spices across the world, made bland food. Sad.
Edit: Europeans mad their food isn’t as good as they believed. Raided the world and came up short, not my problem.
UK is not the whole of Europe though
Oh yes the delicious foods like maggoty cheese, excessively fermented fish, bull testicles and head cheese.
Delicious
Don’t forget the salted licorice!
I actually kind of like the salted licorice…
maggoty cheese tastes incredible, as does fermented fish.
But, if you are used to Government American “cheese”…
What
That’s a lot of generalization for a whole continent, and how is coffee even related to that?
It isn’t. It’s a joke.
People are just so sensitive especially Europeans
Ah yes, espresso, known for its especially bland taste.
Specifically my point
What do you think tea is made of?
