Gas stations?? Dunkin Donuts??? Ummm, John... You need to have somebody make you some ~good~ coffee someday.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW ----- Original Message ----- From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 1:59 AM Subject: OT - Coffee terminology in the USA From: Brian Walters > G'day all > > On my forthcoming trip to the USA I'm just going to *have* to find > good coffee. > > In Australia, when my wife and I go to a coffee shop, I order a 'long > black' and she has a 'flat white'. I'm fairly sure that I would get > odd (possibly even unfriendly) looks if I ask for these in the US. > > Does anyone know the US equivalents? Sounds like what you want are a large coffee & she wants coffee with cream (aka non-dairy artificial whitener). If you order "coffee" they should ask if you want cream & sugar. You say "no", she says "just cream". Starbucks & fancy coffee shops will have their own proprietary names for this. I avoid Starbucks & the like because they make their coffee too strong & bitter. That's so it will still have some lingering taste of coffee after they add all the frou-frou junk to it. But, since I don't put any of that frou-frou junk in my coffee I prefer McDonalds, Biscuitville, Dunkin Donuts or Krispy-Kreme coffee. Nowadays most gas (petrol) stations are combined with a convenience store & they'll have drinkable coffee as well. -- 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. -- 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.
