In most places if you order a regular black coffee it come from a drip brewer that may have been sitting for a while. If you order a Americano or Long Black or specify a pour over coffee then it will be made right there on the spot.
Coffee "Black" is With Sugar or Without Sugar?
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In most places if you order a regular black coffee it come from a drip brewer that may have been sitting for a while. If you order a Americano or Long Black or specify a pour over coffee then it will be made right there on the spot.
Yes, Cafe Americano in the Caribbean.
I brewed 8 cups of coffee this morning so...
It gets pretty strange sometimes depending on a particular shop's lingo. I was fairly new to one place and I wanted one cup of drip coffee, but just said I wanted "one for here" while pointing at the coffeemaker. I ended up getting what they called a "cafe au lait" although it was more like what some would call a cafe latte, served in a bowl. "One to go" was their lingo for one of these in a paper cup.
Many years ago I was doing a job on a big genset. I was going to get coffee for my guys and I had to take an elevator to the street. I didn’t want to walk back past the elevator operator with coffees and not have one for him. I asked him if he would like a cup and how does he like it?
He looked me dead in the eye and said black and sweet like me. He was a big, burly, bald black guy. The two of us cracked up laughing but that’s exactly how he took it. Had to be almost forty years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
Another thing about regular coffee. There was this deli near my house that was BUSY. Sold lots of coffee. They would have cups lined up behind them by the coffee pots with sugar already in them to make regulars faster. I take mine milk no sugar. It took me a few cups from there to figure out when I got coffee there, they took a cup that had sugar in it and tossed the sugar and then poured the coffee into it. That slight sugar residue was enough for me to taste it and not enjoy the coffee. I pointed out when I got coffee there that they had to use a cup from the stack and not a pre sugared one.
I will drink really good coffee black no sugar but it’s few and far between.
He looked me dead in the eye and said black and sweet like me. He was a big, burly, bald black guy. The two of us cracked up laughing but that’s exactly how he took it. Had to be almost forty years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
Another thing about regular coffee. There was this deli near my house that was BUSY. Sold lots of coffee. They would have cups lined up behind them by the coffee pots with sugar already in them to make regulars faster. I take mine milk no sugar. It took me a few cups from there to figure out when I got coffee there, they took a cup that had sugar in it and tossed the sugar and then poured the coffee into it. That slight sugar residue was enough for me to taste it and not enjoy the coffee. I pointed out when I got coffee there that they had to use a cup from the stack and not a pre sugared one.
I will drink really good coffee black no sugar but it’s few and far between.
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