The whole Pretentious Coffee scene.
First off a good cup of tea owns coffee any time.
Secondly why the stupid array of cups and glasses? It's bloody coffee for god's sake not the necter of the gods. It makes me grimly smile to see people struggling to carry/drink from their bucket sized cups of coffee-flavoured milk froth.
And you need a silly, noisy and frankly gay machine to make it. What's wrong with a kettle, some milk and a spoon?
Get over yourselves, it's a massively overrated drink that needs silly props to fool people into thinking it's the dogs bollocks.
First off a good cup of tea owns coffee any time.
Secondly why the stupid array of cups and glasses? It's bloody coffee for god's sake not the necter of the gods. It makes me grimly smile to see people struggling to carry/drink from their bucket sized cups of coffee-flavoured milk froth.
And you need a silly, noisy and frankly gay machine to make it. What's wrong with a kettle, some milk and a spoon?
Get over yourselves, it's a massively overrated drink that needs silly props to fool people into thinking it's the dogs bollocks.
Sounds like you've only ever drunk instant. Which is basically the same as having never drunk coffee
Real coffee > Daylight > Green & herbal teas > Rooibos > Instant coffee > Tea
Nope I've had enough "real" coffee around the cosmopolitan coffee places of Wellington and beyond to realize that I am right.
The only use for coffee is to keep you awake and The USA, (who invented these insipid starbuck-type places), used to drink coffee as it should be drunk, not the namby pamby way it is today.
Can you imagine Robert Mitchum or Richard Widmark going into a bistro and ordering a "flat white" or "latte"? They'd kick your lungs out for suggesting it.
If you want to sit in some trendy brown room next to a deafening machine that sounds like the wheezings of group of emphysemic Glaswegian gentlemen of the road, pretending you are in a "friends" episode then be my guest you coffee-breathed buffoon.
Wow. Dont go to Italy then.
I've been called a coffee snob, but because most cafe 'baristas' wouldn't know the difference between plunger and a ristretto; and are likely to have served your "real" coffee in the cosmopolitan cafes.
Those big cups you refer to are result of the usual American Gargatuan System (AGS) where everything must be bigger...because of course, quantity always over quality. I actually cringe when someone responds to my flat white order with, 'do you want a regular or large?'....there's no such thing as a large flat white, it's regular, ALWAYS regular. A large flat white my friend, is a latte.
Good coffee makes me miss Wellington because Auckland rarely has good coffee. You can't quite beat Havana Cafe, Fidels or Midnight Espresso.
As for the 'only use for coffee is to keep you awake' retort, is the same as 'you only drink wine to get p****d' and if such is the case, you may as well keep to your simpleton tea.