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"Coffee Shops"

I was in starbucks today. I don't go to coffee shops that often, usually only if I'm meeting people there, or everyone else wants to go.

I looked at the massive board, with hundreds of different kinds of coffee. Pretty soon the words lost all meaning.
Then I reached the front of the queue.
"I'll have a.. um, regular coffee please."
"What?"
"Just a normal coffee"
The guy didn't have a clue what to do!
"Um, okay... a.. cappaucino.. no, a grande latté..."
"Okay, fine"

It still didn't turn out to be a regular coffee, and he charged me over £2 for it.

It's happened before though - ask for a regular coffee, nobody has a clue what to do.
At least it proves one thing - not even the staff have a clue what all the different versions are.
You must come out of there with more mixing skills than a cocktail waiter.

Fft. If they're going to call it a 'filtered coffee' and not even their staff know that it's actually just a regular coffee. Amongst all the moccafrappacappanoveltypointlesschinos it must be easily lost, and you can't really pre-empt what the names all mean.

Plus, I'd have read the whole board, but the queue wasn't twelve hours long.

Starbucks have a "regular" coffee. It's called a filtered coffee and it's just black. You get cream and sugar at the bit where you get straws and stirrers. And it costs something like 75p.

But of course if reading is too challenging for you all...

Heh,

"You look a right Pret."

Hurray! I hope they own the world soon.

The best coffee shop by far is Pret.

Great stuff and not too much choice. I believe they actually have an option of a "coffee" or "tea" for old farts like you, Duck.

Timmargh wrote:
> I just love iced coffee - it ruleth the world.

Damn right.

If you just take regular coffee with milk then go for a café latte.

It's just a coffee made with hot milk rather than water.

Fantastic.

Heh, I just thought, they always try to make you use the proper names, don't they?

You ask for a normal coffee, they offer you one of the mysteriously named ones, so it's like you have to choose something by its special (needs) name. They can't just let you not be a coffee nerd.

I'm sure there was a Black Books sketch along these lines.

Did I write that?

That was paw.

My recollection is rather fuzzy...


and so on

Aha.