... all I wanted was an iced coffee.
Which in Australia means a very milky coffee, no actual ice, with a scoop of ice cream. So I rocked up to the counter, having perused the menu and said "A tall iced latte please, with hazelnut, you know, an iced coffee".
I get to the pick up spot and get 2 coffees, one is plain coffee, no milk, full of ice cubes! WTF??? The other is a milky coffee, hot.
I go back to the ordering spot, explain carefully that I want 1 coffee, cold, with milk in it.
I get something a little like what I wanted ... it was cold at least.
Saturday, September 12
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So sorry. Starbuck's speaks their own unique language!
Now, how do I tell this story?
O.K.
There's a cartoonist from Rhode Island called Don Bousquet. He focuses on unique aspects of New England, especially Rhode Island. One of his cartoons shows a waiter coming through the door from the kitchen into the dining room. The waiter is holding a large tray with a a hand crank meat grinder and a kitchen cabinet balanced precariously on the tray. The caption reads something like: "I don't know. Some guy from Rhode Island just ordered a cabinet and a grinder."
A "grinder" in RI is a sandwich on a torpedo roll, also known as a submarine or sub sandwich or a hero sandwich.
A "cabinet" in RI is a thick milkshake or a frappe, which is milk blended with ice cream.
It's amazing that we all speak the same language so very, very differently, based on unique regional differences!
;o)
- Lee
Ha! be careful in Italy too - ordering a latte will get you a glass of milk - no coffee.
I have to say that in Queensland they do iced coffee very well - people drink more of it in this state than anything else including water and coke i believe.
Hahahaha! Very funny Lee I like that one.
Morgan, I know exactly what you got - because I ordered an iced coffee at our Starbucks equivalent (based very much on the American coffee shop idea with all the crazy terms for what is basically a cup of coffee), and I also go that weird thing full of ice. Wasn't good!!!! Ron x
Lee, It's amazing we can communicate at all :)
Ronnie, Yep, black coffee with ice! Yuck.
S, yes I know, just latte will get you milk but Cafe latte got me coffee with milk to add my ownself (just order milky coffee before 10am!) Otherwise they'll know you're a tourist ;)
I don't think Starbucks serves anything with ice cream here. And I'm with PG - Starbucks has its own language. But I REFUSE to call the sizes tall, grande and venti. It's ridiculous. Grande means large in Italian, so to ask for a medium by saying a large is fucking moronic and I will not do it. And that is that.
E - I asked for a small not a tall ;)
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