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I drink it black. I only order a coffee. If they ask if I want cream, I say “no just black.” The etiquette here is basically just that: either the server will ask if you want cream and sugar, or they will bring everything out together and let you stir it in how you like. But “white coffee”? Never heard of it until now. Would never think someone an “utter cunt” for guessing that I wanted a latte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHhYLJMi7CE
Thing is if i was in italy, or a local authentic italian UK coffee house i would (and do) have no probs with it.
But in UK/ big chains like starbucks/costa and a lot of UK chain food outlets.. where a basic white coffee is still embedded in every day UK life, be it office, home, cafes.. they "milk" it for maximum £ with fancy names and insist you order the correct name by correcting you with latte/americano etc.
For example.. coffee in breakfast cafes in UK which remains a british tradition, the most advance you may get is white/black or frothy (posh) on a coffee and its £1ish a cup. Tea is nothing fancy either with a good strong "builders" mug usually the way forward. They may put a cappucino on the menu and add £1 for just a sprinkling of hot chocolate powder.
What does it matter what colour the cup is? Coffee is coffee. Why do you insist that it's served in a *white* cup?
And I do like the irony that you're complaining about incorrect use of language with that as an example.
From now on i will also ask the staff to colour the cup in a sunburst style so it represents a wider spectrum of skin colours.
Reading these threads is an education in itself, not just on guitars, but the wider aspects of life.
Firstly ,there is no such thing as a Latte ........if you order a Latte in Italy you will be brought a glass of hot milk (nothing to do with coffee whatsoever ).Of course a Cappuccino is a fairly universal thing.
It would be quite rare in Italy or Spain to see a man drink a Cappuccino ......it's more of a Ladies drink but only for breakfast or at the latest 11 a.m.
Obviously there is Espresso ........and a Machiatto is an Espresso with a dash of milk foam on top .
In Spain there are unique coffees such as a Cortado which is a breakfast thing .....basically strong double Espresso but with the same amount of hot milk .
A plain coffee from a Cafetiere is a French version and could have milk added to be a basic white coffee as we would have called it in the 1970s.
Nobody drinks Coffee with cream unless it's floated atop a Coffee and Whisky in equal measure and called an Irish Coffee or floated with Rum and called a Calypso coffee ......these are strange inventions of Steak Houses and Carverys perpetuated to make unworldly people feel posh and important .
Finally we come to the best bit , Affogato ......an Italian dessert comprising a large scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream in a glass with a piping hot double Espresso poured over it eaten quickly with a spoon but absolutely heavenly when a shot of Ammaretto di Saronno is added .
Curiously enough, no, not an Americanism, though the Americans certainly are as guilty of it as people from other places.
Saying "myself" instead of "I" or "me" is a giveaway - not a subtle hint, a flashing great neon sign - that the speaker is a semi-bright try-hard.
He (or she, but he seems to be more common) is:
* just bright enough to have vaguely heard it around somewhere that saying "I" and "me" all the time sounds a bit self-centered
* but not bright enough to realise that "myself" is not in fact a synonym (it has a slightly different meaning),
* and certainly not bright enough to realise that brainlessly substituting "myself" for "I" or "me" betrays both self-centeredness (someone less self-conscious wouldn't think to do that) and poor language skills. It also demonstrates poor interpersonal skills - anyone who says "myself" (let alone "the undersigned") has not yet learned how to read the room.
In short, thinking that it is best to say "myself" instead of "I" or "me" is the linguistic equivalent of realising that asking that nice young typist at the office out to dinner might be a bit out of line and that it would be better to just discreetly send her a dick pic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latte_macchiato
...has led me to be doubly clear since.
Sheesh.
My original post was about how some people use language because they think it sounds more formal and professional, but all it really does is sound patronising or unauthentic. My wife has been saying "I was aware of this" when she's telling me some anecdotal thing. Makes her sound like an official Press Officer talking about an important public matter when all she's really saying is that the bin bag split open or something.