America:
But there’s more caffeine in that than in the gallon jug full of syrup and milk you get in the US.
We probably have as many normal cafes here as we have sugarbomb-starbucks corpo type places, especially in the cities. They’ll serve you a 12oz or 16oz black coffee and you add what you want into it at a self service counter. I usually add a splash of oat milk.
Meanwhile in America:
I don’t understand why anyone goes to Starbucks. I just go to the local coffee houses, and they are awesome.
It’s certainly not just a US thing.
What does the map show?
as someone who doesn’t like coffee I can tell you what she’s drinking is also coffee
Coffee flavoured dessert.
That’s not dessert, that’s more calories than a family of 5 needs in a week.
It appears to be 2 large caramel frappuccinos coming in at 470 calories apiece. So 940 calories.
Although I’m not very familiar with Starbucks drinks so could be something else.
Lot of calories to drink still
“American dessert” - is that more accurate?
Reminds me of this cyanide and happiness skit
Blacker than a moonless night. That is coffee.
Yes
I like coffe the same way I like chocolate, extremely dark. Not because I think it makes me better, I just like the bitter earthy taste of dark chocolate and black coffee :3
Coffee is brewed in ratios of beans:water that varies depending on the style being made. An espresso in Europe should be more or less the same size as an espresso in the states. Same for pour over, cold brew, lattes, etc
The same coffee + a gallon of water:
American coffee!
Not really, you’re forgetting half a galon of sugars, syrups, creams and spices
the americano is named for the us soldiers stationed in italy during wwii who would pour water into their espresso because it was “too strong”. it’s one part espresso to four parts water.
Probably not true? Though Wikipedia isn’t an authoritative source obviously:
There is a popular belief that the name has its origins in World War II when American G.I.s in Italy diluted espresso with hot water to approximate the coffee to which they were accustomed. However, the Oxford English Dictionary cites the term as a borrowing from Central American Spanish café americano, a derisive term for mild coffee, dating back to the middle of the 1950s. Its first use in English appeared in the Jamaican newspaper The Sunday Gleaner in 1964. The term caffè americano entered Italian later than the English or Spanish uses, suggesting the term originates outside of Italy.
yeeeeah but it gets their panties in a twist
Fair enough :)
Yes for the Starbucks addicts and electric wand users, but even black coffee consumers are drinking some mild bean water instead of proper coffee. Even our espresso is weak af most of the time.
how do you measure strength of coffee? caffeine content?
Espresso doesn’t just have a high concentration of caffeine, it also has a high concentration of every other part of the coffee bean.
true, hence the high pressure through compressed grounds
I just want something to sip on through my morning. 3 cups of drip coffee with milk lasts a few hours.
I do decaf when I drink too much regular coffee, it’s allowed 😺
I have a moka pot at home for an afternoon espresso, but when I have to plow through emails or set up files or drive to work, I want something that I can sip on for awhile. Sure I could have a tea, but drop coffee is very pleasant for that situation. It’s like nursing a beer versus a shot of vodka.
but not with milk after 11! 🤌
Of course not 🤌🏼 , only tourists do that!
Hydration is important!
Yes but it also has 3× the caffeine compared to an American large. They’re just efficient
🍺 vs 🥃
Energy drink time :3
Here is a medium size from america:
Would you like fries with that? For $1.30 extra you can biggie size it….
“Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as love”
Because we have 2x the amount of beans. We dont drink «coffee», we drink ¡coffee!
Yeah, on this slightly newer table, the US is the 70th highest consumer of coffee per capita. The vast majority of European countries consume more dry coffee.
Canada is the only non-European country in the top 10 coffee consuming nations
Hell yeah, let’s go Canada!
Does nescafe even count as real coffee?
Culture shock turns into an electric shock when the paramedics try to revive him
Potion of Ventricular Tachycardia (grande)
Americans: how many gallons of milk do you want me to put this burnt filter coffee in?
Starbucks coffee is actually espresso-based, if you order drip coffee in a Starbucks it won’t have a gallon of milk in it. They just both taste burned because of the heavily roasted beans.
I’ve not been to the States, but is drip coffee likely to get over-extracted (which is what we tend to describe as “burnt”)? I would have thought that it would be stale from sitting on the hot plate, and flat if the water’s from a reservoir, but probably under-extracted unless the water’s too hot to start.
Burnt in this case would be leaving it on the hot plate for too long methinks
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Partly over extraction, but mainly all of the “common” coffee here are medium dark or dark roast adjacent blends, which tends towards those maltier, burnt flavors and tends to be “smoother” when mixed with creme and sugar than more fruity light roasts.
There are plenty of light and medium roasts everywhere, but if you dont specify, you will get a darker roast.
As another commenter says, it’s their custom of making drip coffee and then leaving it on a hot plate to denature all flavour remaining after the aromatics have been cooked off
The coffee machine at work allows you to queue up cappuccinos, so I can fill my mug with a double.
the coffee machine has the button for a normal cup labeled “☕☕”
aggrandizing little shit.
Espresso espresso cappuccino at my office. But no queue, just people giving me side eye as I keep pressing buttons.
Haha, amazing
Europeans don’t like taste that’s the problem
Stole the spices across the world, made bland food. Sad.
Ah yes, espresso, known for its especially bland taste.
UK is not the whole of Europe though
What
That’s a lot of generalization for a whole continent, and how is coffee even related to that?
What do you think tea is made of?
