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Post by sophie »

If like my husband you stand bewildered in some of the more trendy coffee shops, trying to decipher what coffee is what, perhaps this will help. It's a notice that a coffee shop has put up in a very up market area of Dorset, called Sandbanks.

Americano - Black coffee
Flat white - White coffee
Cappuccino - Frothy coffee
Latte - Milky coffee
Mocha - Choccy coffee
Tea - Not coffee
Hot chocolate - Also not coffee

Well, it amused me anyway.

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PS Small world. Is the coffee shop the one by the Ferry to Studland?

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Post by Mowgli597 »

God be with the days when you got a spoonful of Nescafé or Maxwell House in a cup with hot water. Milk was the only option (apart from sugar). And tea came out of a pot that had been stewing for days. It made getting a cuppa so much easier - and quicker!

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Post by Kanonier »

I have only recently learned to speak Mcdonalds!

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Post by Cally »

Saw it recently on fb & laughed, I even asked for black coffee in an establishment once, only to be told, an Americano, my reply, no idea what that is, just a black coffee please.

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Post by mrsgee »

That is so funny, and real. Why use all the trendy names.... that no one understands just call it what it is....

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Post by Mr B »

Ask them what coffee bean they are using! or should that be which coffee bean!

Arabica. Arabica beans are the most acidic coffee beans. ...
Robusta. Robusta is usually bitter and strong. ...
Liberica (Barako) The traditional coffee bean found in the Philippines, Liberica or Barako is defined as a strong, pungent, intense, bitter, and earthy bean. ...
Excelsa.

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Post by jofra »

...... the “best coffee in the world” - Jamaican Blue Mountain......
My oldest friend - sadly now gone (and Godfather to my son) was Jamaican, and on the few occasions that he could go home for a holiday, always returned with a couple of packs of Blue Mountain, a bottle of Wray & Nephew, a supply of local/home-made ginger sugar (a hard, brownish substance, very hot to the taste) and a few mangoes freshly picked from his garden hours before he boarded his plane back to the UK.......

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Post by Deniz1 »

Master Roaster have Blue Mountain beans but sooo expensive.

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Post by sophie »

So true, Jamaican Blue Mountain, oh what a treat that would be. Trouble is, we're starting to sound like the Trendies of Sandbanks, fate worse than death.

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