[Dixielandjazz] Purists & Coffee

[pj.ladd]

the facts about frappuccinos.>.>

What is it with Americans and coffee? . Americans and food are bad enough. I 
have been taken out for a four hour drive  with the promise of the  "best 
food you have ever tasted" and finished up with a burger and everyone making 
expressions of delight as if they were dining on haute cuisine instead of 
squirting ketchup down your best tie and picking carroway seeds out of your 
teeth.
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But coffee!. At the last count there were roughly speaking two million 
different descriptions of coffee. Hot, cold, frothy, non frothy, with liquor 
without liquor.Small cups,, medium cups you can swim in. To go or not. 
Stuff sprinkled on top or not..Enough different names for a cup of coffee to 
describe an entire meal in an Italian restaurant. Cappaccino, frappaccino, 
shcmaccaccino, Mussolini, Garibaldi.  sheesh!  If  you are unlucky enough to 
stand in line behind an American ordering coffee then you may as well start 
reading War and Peace or unroll your sleeping bag and ask for a early 
morning wake up call for the following day. Your life has ground to a stop. 
Ring your secretary and cancel all your appointments. You have had it. You 
are in stasis. By the time it is your turn to be served the kids will have 
grown up and left home. You will have been declared legally dead and your 
wife will have remarried.

You are ordering a CUP OF COFFEE for heavens sake not wondering if you will 
add your name to the Declaration of Independence.  Just do it!

Black, no milk, no sugar.

Cheers

Pat