> It was someone at the counter at a sandwich shop in the Queen > Street Railway Station in Glasgow if it makes any difference. > I described the Bunn-o-matic coffee maker and he was familiar > with them and said to just ask for "drip coffee" in the future. > > And it worked. I asked for "drip coffee" from then on and got > something that tasted like I'm familiar with and could drink. > > Before that, someone had recommended asking for "an > Americano", which is the most GAWD-AWFUL tasting crap, worse > than Starbucks. >
The clue's in the name... Americano is espresso with hot water added because, according to legend, American tourists couldn't stomach espresso and had to have it weakened. Similarly in France you can have your steak cooked a l'americain, which means burnt. > Funny thing is, after the first night I stayed in "bed 'n breakfast" > type lodgings, and every one of them had a genuine > Bunn-o-matic commercial drip coffee maker in the dining room > for that breakfast. > One of these? <http://www.caffesociety.co.uk/bunn-pour-and-serve-37800-0102.html> They're the sort of thing that British Rail used back in the worst days of British food history. Typically they would sit on a hot plate for days at a time and would serve coffee that tasted like the scrapings from a locomotive boiler. I've never had a decent cup of coffee from one of these - they leave the jug stewing for too long. Filter coffee is only worth drinking if it's absolutely fresh (which is how I make it in the morning, with one of these: <http://www.swissgold.com/e/c_produkt06.php>. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
