One day when I was working in Mexico City I went for lunch with a Mexican colleague to a nice restaurant. When it came to coffee, all they had was Nescafé. We hailed a cab and on the way back to the office I said that I was shocked that a country that produces fine coffee should be serving Nescafé in good restaurants. The cab driver glanced at me and then said that his family owned a coffee plantation in Veracruz and it was shameful, but the big co-ops sold it all to European buyers and that it upset him that his own country knew nothing about their superb coffee. The next day I left a meeting in our boardroom and walked into my office to be ravished - that's the only word - by the richest coffee aroma possible emanating from a bulging greasy brown paper bag sitting on my desk. My assistant appeared and said that a taxi driver had appeared and insisted that this was for me. There was one word written in pencil on it... Veracruzano. A bag of coffee beans that, over the following two weeks as I ground and made coffee in my Moka, made me realize that this was the best I had ever tasted. And I have not tasted the like ever again.
Coffee with a story, always the best. I had a serving if fish with a story twenty years ago. Slightly unrelated but this cool story here reminded me of it.
It drove me crazy when in France to have to keep asking for an Americano coffee people would always assume I was American I’m Canadian but don’t like a double double I prefer black yes just coffee quit ruining it with add ins!!
I don`t like coffee either. I drink it only for the caffeine. I swallow it in a second, and I have to wash it down with something to make the taste of coffee disappear.
So interesting, many thanks! I love the Vienna's coffee houses, it is like to be in an ancient living room. Adoro come dici "cosa vuoi?!" Funny story about "capuccino". They asked my grandmother in the restaurant: "Do you have a capuccino?!" and she goes: "Ma qui siam tutti riformati..." "But we are all Protestants here..." 😁W le nonne
Italian supermakets sell "Poket Coffee", a wrapped chocolate bite with a shot of liquid (!) coffee in them. Often they are in the same shelf as Mon Chéri, a similate chocolate filled with liquor, just so that people can decide whether it's too late for coffee and it might be better to already switch to alcohol instead.
Do people actually experience issues sleeping after eating chocolate with a small amount of coffee? I feel like coffee has no effects on me and all of those "I will stay up all night if I have a cup past 5 pm" seem like wild exaggerations to me.
Actually i am a little sad for not mentioning the viennese culture of coffee and their coffee houses (by the way culture heritage). So if u interested in special coffees in Austria we have for example a coffee called "Biedermeier" = Coffee with whipped cream and apricot liqueur "Kosakenkaffee" = small mocha in a one-spoon glass, mixed with liquid sugar, red wine and vodka Just to mention two of many Specialities in Vienna (Austria)😊
Typical flavour of the original Viennese Coffee doesn't come from coffee but from the toasted seed of the Cornel tree (cornus mas) a wild tree that you can find easily in the Alps.
Exactly what I thought! Never underestimate viennese "Kaffehaus-Kultur" and the varieties of coffees you can get there! And it's not only the variety of HOW to make a cup/a glas/a bowl.... of coffee, but also the variety of coffee-beans and their roasting - and have you ever tried a cup of coffee IN a coffee roasting house? That smell.......🥰
It also means pressed!!! It comes from Latin and that's why it literally means the same in every Latin country around the planet. Meaning spanish for press is also expreso.
I moved to Texas from my home country of Venezuela, and coffee culture in the US is literally very difficult to overcome and get used to! 🤣 I was able to find coffee that was made more like in Venezuela, because even after 7 years living in the US I'll never drink what Americans call coffee!!! 🤪
I’m French and I went to a Starbucks once, I couldn’t manage to order a normal coffee. Never went again. I thought coffee was a very complicated thing in America.
If you drink it black, just order a double expresso. It's not gonna be cheap but decent coffee. If you drink it with milk, sorry, I never bothered figuring them out.
Starcucks is literally the worst possible option for coffee in the US. It's terribly overpriced trash for people who need everyone else to validate their worth. Try a local cafe or diner instead of a garbage chain.
On the flipside, I'm a barista at Starbucks. I once served a guy who asked for coffee, and I gave him what we consider coffee. He came back to complain, and once I realized he was French, we understood each other quickly. Par contre, quand ce même bonhomme m'a demandé de la saccharine, j'étais complètement perdue 🤣 Je crois que l'expression qu'on utilise au Canada, à part nommer la marque directement, c'est édulcorant. Sinon, ce qu'il faut commander c'est de l'espresso! Simple ou double (ou plus... je juge pas 👀), et on peut faire des allongés aussi. Il est possible de demander le lait ou la crème et le sucre à part si vous voulez doser vous-même. On laissait les carraffes et le sucre sur un comptoir désigné, mais comme on le sait tous, la pandémie a changé bien des choses... Donc si vous avez le malheur de vous retrouver chez Starbucks à nouveau, vous saurez quoi faire 😜
I'm also French and the same thing happened to me, the first time I went to a Starbucks I was in my twenties and studying in Munich. My “Starbucks experience is a large cup with my first name, filled with hot water, with a slight coffee taste and excessively sweet. Today I am 40 years old and it was my only Starbucks experience… No regrets whatsoever.
Great video, great work as always! 🤩But you didn´t mention how much the Greeks looove their freddo espresso or freddo cappuccino, and even frappe which is great for the hot summer days! 🏖It is one of their smartest inventions of the modern era, although surprisingly not common in the rest of Europe😅
I really like these long form videos with the “__ makes no sense” outline. These videos are quite interesting and entertaining. Please keep making them, they are very good.
The story of the civet poop coffee is both more interesting and more depressing than someone intentionally trying all the different coffee poo. If you haven’t heard it Essentially the plantation workers were not allowed to keep any of the beans they picked they eventually got desperate enough wash off the beans they found on the ground and they decided they liked the civet poo coffee best, other people eventually tried it and liked it and now they trap groups of civets in little cages and feed them coffee pods all day.
As a Spaniard one of my favourite ways to drink coffee is with a little splash of alcohol on it (usually brandy). The simplest form (just espresso with a splash of liquor) is called "carajillo", then there's also Belmonte (you add a bit of condensed milk), asiático (like a Belmonte, but you also add some Licor 43), cremaet (you add a bit of rum and sugar and 'burn' it), and probably many many more depending on the regions.
As a Swede I can confirm that we drink a lot of coffee. There's the 10 o'clock and 15 o'clock fika, in addition we need 2-3 cups to get going in the morning, after lunch coffee ("kaffe på maten" - literally "coffee on food") which is 2 cups or so and then you get a cup every time you need to stretch your legs, go to the bathroom or are trying to seem productive and not at all procrastinating. My favorite coffee is the one that are a hot chocolate with a shot of espresso in it but as I'm trying to act like an adult, I take my coffee black.
Hey, swede here as well and if the 7.6kg of coffee average per year is correct, I wonder if they have taken everyone into account, even small children and babies since I drink about 1-3 400ml cups a day and it comes down to about 9-11kg coffee a year for me, I don't know but the average seems low....
@@weremuppet7625 yeah they just take kgs imported divided by the number of people. There are adults in Sweden, that don't drink coffee. I even know a French person living in Sweden that doesn't drink coffee. Truly a unicorn among the reindeer.
"A coffee is a coffee, right?" - Cue anyone in South Europe dying from laughter. Greek here, as fond of Frappe (not to be confused with a French frappe) and Freddo Espresso/Capuccino (not to be confused with an Espresso/Capuccino freddo) as I am of the Greek variant of the Turkish variant of Arabic coffee.
Kopi Luwak comes from Dutch colonizers forcing Indonesian people to grow coffee on their farms for profit but not allowing the farmers to have any of it. The farmers, wanting to try this prized crop they had to farm for other people's profit but couldn't touch saw that civet cats ate the berries. That's where Indonesian people got to actually try the coffee they were forced to grow. Once the Dutch colonizers saw what was happening and that the farmers enjoyed the civet cat poo coffee they also confiscated that. Nowadays pretty much all Kopi Luwak is farmed where civet cats are held captive in tiny cages and force fed coffee berries because the hype around it being expensive (not necessarily good) boosted demand for it far beyond what was originally produced from wild civet cat droppings. The beans being found in poop is probably the least disgusting thing about Kopi Luwak...
Yeah, Kopi Luwak is over-hyped. I tried a couple of times and it tasted like... totally average coffee. Absolutely not worth the suffering inflicted upon the animal. Especially since Indonesia has already tons and tons of excellent coffee grounds.
If you ever come to Turkey, try "Turk kahvesi" Turkish coffee. Yes, only one type, no confusion. Just state your sugar preference: "sade": no sugar, "az shekerli": little sugar, "orta shekerli": medium sugar, "shekerli": with much sugar and "yandan charkli": "sade" with a cube sugar next to the cup ("yandan çarklı" literally means paddle steamer"). If you ask for a Turkish girl's hand in marriage from her parents at her house, it's a traditional must for the girl to make and serve you and your parent(s) Turkish coffee. Beware, your coffee will be served with salt. Don't make a wry face, just drink and say "ziyade olsun" may it be abundant, and she will answer "afiyet olsun" may it benefit to your health.
My family has been growing coffee since the first half of the 1740s when an ambitious ancestor acquired some plants from a smuggler. Climate, elevation, precipitation, soil composition and the plants that accompany a coffee bush's growth, plus the fuel used to roast it will tell you a great deal about the final product. Seasoned coffee inspectors can tell whether your pre-roasted bean were sun-dried for the prerequisite days before packaging for wholesale markets. Roasting beans with orange tree branches as fuel impart and unmistakeable taste and fragrance. Keep the brewing simple and ignore anyone who attempts to school you about complex machines to brew it.
Moving from Belgium to the UK, I had a bit of a shock with coffee culture. Because the UK... has one! In Belgium, they will serve whatever sock juice they can get their hands on and when you ask for a Cappuccino, in most places they will serve you an espresso with whipped cream! The UK definitely has welcomed the influence of the US, however there is also a very strong influence from places like Italy or Spain, meaning you can expect pretty good coffee from a lot of places. Loic, you should jump on the Eurostar for a trip across the Channel one day ;)
Yeah the name coffeeshop is user for soft drugs bars. But we almost hit the Swedish level of coffee consumption. Coffee is often made at home ( Senseo is a Dutch invention), usually free to get at the workplace and in larger supermarkets. If you want to buy one it is available in: cafe, restaurant, cafetaria, koffiebar and at plenty of Starbucks. We usually have a 'kop koffie' that is halfway between an americano and an espresso. And you can get cappuccinos all day ( no frowning like in Italy), since many people drink their coffee with milk or cream in it.
In Italy, an "americano" is an espresso served in a large cup with a small jug of hot water. In France, you also have "caffè creme" or "un crème," which is a very long espresso with a small jar (or a dose in a plastic container) of "cream." In Italy, at any hour, you can find people asking for "un corretto," which is an espresso with a strong alcohol, usually "grappa" or "sambuca." Additionally, still in Italy, a "doppio" is two espressos served in a cup, usually in a large cup: (doppio in tazza grande).
There are many other varieties of coffee in Italy ("macchiato" with either hot or cold milk, according to taste), "marocchino", which is an espresso with cream and cocoa powder; then "caffè leccese" (an espresso with almond "milk" and ice cubes), and others. Then people may ask to have their coffee with full milk, skimmed milk, soya milk, etc etc And it's not true that cappuccino is frowned upon if ordered after eleven a.m., I frequently drink it during the day if I need to postpone a meal, and no barman has refused to serve me so far.
Loic... your rhythm, and especially your editing, are absolutely TOP NOTCH. I don't know what plans you have post RUclips (if any), but I am certain someone will snatch you up. You are a great media creator. I wonder what kind of team you have behind the scenes... if this is all YOU and only YOU, Chapeau!
I'm serious about coffee, not about milk. My go-to is French (heyooo!) press (immersion brewing) with enough soy milk to make the coffee the right shade for my liking. TBF, what I drink is good enough that I could drink it black but hey, I stick with what I'm used to. Hi from Finland! 😁 FWIW, I don't much care for the most popular coffees here, as they're, shall we say, sub-standard. It not like better coffee is even that much more expensive! If you drink like 8 kg of coffee a year, that's 16 bricks. A couple of euros per brick isn't going to break your bank.
I started down the espresso rabbit hole a few years ago. I've done my best to not let it get too out of control since I still can't justify spending a minimum of $1,000 on a half way decent espresso maker. I enjoy the art of making coffee with my Flair Espresso Maker PRO 2. It's very manual as is my hand grinder. Sadly finding a place nowadays that can make coffee as good as I make at home has been challenging. The audacity other countries have on telling me at what time I'm allowed to have the coffee I want the way I want is baffling. I like cream and sugar and how dare anyone tell me I'm wrong in my OWN taste buds
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I'm hungarian woman (we are in Central Europe), normally we drink coffee black and dense (espresso) with some milk in the morning or capuccino. Thank you for your video :) I speak italian well, french (middle level), some english and spanish. I really enjoy your videos when you are french person and english person and you speak about the differences of languages :) Thank you :)
Thanks for all the different coffee cultures. Egg coffee is not the only famous coffee in Vietnam, we also have very strong black coffee, milk coffee (w/ condensed milk), coconut coffee, etc. Our black coffee is very strong, we use a washable metal filter and brew coffee slowly with hot water. It could be said that the amount of caffeine in 1 cup of Vietnamese black coffee equals what you can get in 4-5 Starbucks if you consider Starbucks coffee.
1:41 Actually in the Nordic countries you can order coffee with or without milk at any time of day. It's very acceptable to decline an offer of coffee late at night, but it's also perfectly normal to ask for or offer coffee at 23:00. From what I've heard, the most probably hypothesis for the "only coffee with milk in the morning"-rule in most of southern Europe, is that fewer people are have adult lactose tolerance* there, so drinking more than one dose of fresh milk per day will upset their gut and that one dose will be best tolerated in the morning so it can be diluted by all the other food you eat throughout the day. (Cheese and particularly hard matured cheese is not as big of a problem because the bacteria that mature the cheese have digested most or all of the lactose in the cheese). (* or more commonly formulated as "lactose intolerance" is more common there; but that's rather backwards, since almost all mammals lose the ability to digest lactose as they grow older; and tolerance of lactose as an adult is actually a fairly rare and relatively (evolutionary speaking) recent mutation that causes the normal mechanism to disable the production of lactase to fail. So It's fairly unreasonable to refer to _every_ normally functioning mammal in the world using the term "lactose intolerance" as if it's a disorder, when it's only a tiny minority of humans who actually are mutants who doesn't stop being able to drink milk as they mature.)
Rich history! Merci beaucoup for sharing! I've also heard that coffee culture got a start in Vienna when Turks were defeated after early bird bakers caught them planning an attack and alerted their soldiers to defend the city. After the Turks were defeated, the coffee beans they left behind were put to use in coffee and the crescent on the flag was the inspiration for those bakers to create the first croissants, or kipferl in German. When the pastries made their way to France the French perfected them into the traditional croissants we know today. I like cafe au lait, usually without sugar. I like the way they present it in an Austrian coffeehouse, on a silver tray with a long packet of sugar, a spoon, a small glass of water, and a cookie.
When it comes to western style coffee, I like espresso. I also like our traditional Arabic coffee. Just get a coffee pot. Pour water and let it boil, then add the desired amount of ground coffee and let it boil again once and serve. We take coffee after lunch, and after having had eaten our meats that roasted on a coal barbecue, and the coal has settled down, we put the coffee pot on those very warm braises so that the coffee takes its time to brew. Maybe like the Ethiopian variety then. We also add ground cardamom. In Turkey they add ground mastic. In some Arabian countries the drink is actually mostly cardamom. So Arabian café noisette.
Watching this in a cafe near the Eiffel tower by sheer coincidence, and this helped me order and not make a fool out of myself by trying to order a latte. What are the odds. Thanks, Lois!!!
As an Italian currently in Las Vegas I can say although Italian espresso (which is very different from the French watered down version) has more aroma and taste, American coffee actually makes more sense as probably more effect in keeping you awake. It's just overpriced about 10 times its actual cost, but that does not seem to bother Americans so why not.
Leipäjuusto (bread cheese) is awesome with coffee! The one called "kaffeost" or "coffee cheese" in the video. It's squeaky and delicious. You can eat it warm, by putting it in the oven and then enjoying it with cloudberry jam. Or in chunks in coffee. Props for showing the traditional wooden mug, or "kuksa". You could also take a fallen juniper bush twig, remove the bark, dry it and use that as a stirring stick. Gives a nice mild gin-like flavour that goes nicely with the coffee and bread cheese. But it's important that you pick only fallen branches because the tree itself is a protected species and cutting living branches is forbidden.
And the more I think about it the less sense this makes... you drink coffee from a mug made from a birch tree burl (a growth abnormality), stir it with a fallen branch of a specific tree and use cheese with the coffee... until now it was just... normal.
Thank you Loic for posting this video today! I was just told that I have a non cancerous brain tumor which I did surgery for yesterday. This video has really brightened my day!
1:46 I'd say most places in Europe having whatever form of coffee/milk mix is ok at every time of the day. To my experience mostly Italians will look weird at you.
It's an interesting take on coffee by Loic. I consider myself a "barista at home". There is also a type of coffee called "filter coffee" or "degree coffee" in southern India. Freshly ground coffee (preferably using a hand grinder) brewed using a brass filter with a tinge of sugar smeared over the ground cofee, fresh, hot milk poured over the coffee "decoction", and oh a dash of sugar, served in a brass tumbler! (BTW, please also check James Hoffman's channel, one of the best for coffee lovers!)
As an Australian, I must say that our friends in North America needs more coffee culture ☕️ come to Melbourne and enter into any café and enjoy explore the variety of coffee types 😉
Even in a Starbucks the sizes are confusing! I hate the whole thing and always repeat back orders in normal terms. So many ppl miss order a small (tall) when they wanted the large (venti)
Kopi Lewak coffee is the only coffee I will drink black. It’s so smooth that putting anything in it just ruins it. I’d love the try the Vietnamese version of coffee. That just sounds divine. I already put egg nog in my coffee during the holidays 😆
Hahahaha. Lol. It actually happend with me in Venice. I've ordered a latte, barista was like "Are you sure". 🤣🤣🤣 I said yes and he gave me a glass of milk.🤣🤣🤣And coffee with egg yolk is actually a cool thing. I had one in Lviv Ukraine. It was very delicious.
Here in Argentina a large coffee with milk is a "cortado", a large coffee is a "café doble" a strong one is an "espresso", you also have un "irlandes" which is a coffee with whisky, and the classic one is a "café con medialunas".
Loic... Love your content but for someone who speaks our awesome mexican version of spanish you keep forgetting to mention us in these vids. Mexico has great coffee particularly in Oaxaca, Veracruz and Chiapas. And our "Café de Olla" (coffee with cinammon and sugar cane sugar) is really great with some sweet bread. Saludos desde México 🇲🇽
Haha if you order "un cafe au lait" in the afternoon, no-one will say anything, I mean your friend may say it's unusual but there's no chance the waiter/bartender would say anything, remember that it's your drink and they don't actually care about what you're having.
I am wondering what ways do other languages describe someone is currently doing versus was they did previously as with English if person it say word and adding ing to say they currently doing said action.
Japanese has a similar construction. For instance ikimasu means I go, somebody goes and itte-imasu means I am going. It doesn't seem obvious that the two forms are related, but it's the case.
I never liked coffee growing up. I always thought it smelled lovely but the taste was not for me. But recently I found flavored coffee and the one that I like has chocolate in it. I bought one from my local Dunkin’ Donuts and noticed that they made it “mocha” By simply adding chocolate syrup. The kind you put on ice cream? So I thought why couldn’t I make that at home and now I do.😊 I add the water to the drip coffee maker, put a little bit of milk in the bottom of the cup, squeeze in a little bit of chocolate, and a spoonful of sugar, brown sugar, mind you, the Turbinado kind. And that makes me happy.
In my view the Americans have over complicated the coffee scene while serving poor quality product often packed with sugar (seasonal coffee specials). The worst coffee I have drunk in England was at a Starbucks. We avoid them since then. When I lived in Australia I was surprised to see that Starbucks branches were closing down permanently because the Aussies are very particular about their coffee and won’t drink any rubbish. Well you did ask!
I ordered coffee in Paris a few times, everytime, it made me sad. The waiter thought I was crazy for drinking more than one thumb nail sized cup in a sitting. (I've been known to drink six shot Americanos at my local coffee shop in the States.) After Paris, we went to Dublin. I predictably ordered "the world's best Irish Coffee." I don't think a cup of coffee has ever made me happier. And the waitress was more than happy to bring me more when the cup was empty. I've had a lot of good coffee typically prefer just black pour over dark roast (no cream or sugar) but in the context of the moment that Irish Coffee was the best thing ever. Just thought Irish Coffee deserved a mention in the comment section of this video.
We were in France just two months ago from Australia and had no issues with ordering coffee. Just ordered 2 cafe noir. No problems. Basically 2 long black coffees.👍🏻
I'm French and I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. When I was a kid, I used to see my family members looking like zombies until they had a coffee in the morning. I always told myself I wouldn't need some drugs to wake up.
I once spent a month in Australia. On the return flight I got a cup of coffee and thought, “wow, that’s really good”. The Costa Rican coffee on the other hand, really was good. Sin leche, sin azúcar.
Kenya has one of the best coffee beans in the world, it is grown in the Highlands and is naturally sweeter. If you want a "latte" in Italy you have to ask for a latte macchiato, which is milk with coffee.
The Asian civet poop coffee actually has logic behind it! The civet only eats coffee berries and it's very picky about the berries it eats (it only eats the best berries at peak ripeness). The beans aren't affected at all by its digestive system so basically what it poops out are the most perfect coffee beans that the coffee plant ever produced. Hence they make the 'best' coffee.
Unfortunately, commercialising this process has led to caged civets being fed only coffee cherries, so it's not able to be picky about them, which is really not ideal for consumers or civets. There's still alteration of flavour due to transiting the digestive system and fermenting in the gut, and there are anaerobic fermentation processes that are not using animals similar to wine making techniques which also alter the taste of coffee, but they do add extra cost and are only found in niche speciality coffee.
During Brasil's Olympics a couple of american commentators asked for a couple cups of coffe and were served in the brazilian style: A noticeably small cup. They then proceded to post of it on twiter and mock it for its sive. However once they tasted it they found out that the coffe wasn't small is was just quite dense. That small cup of coffe has probably hte same amount of coffe beans and caffeine as a regular cup of joe
In The Netherlands we have a coffee drink similar to a Café au lait or a Latte. It is an extra strong brew with steaming hot milk poured over it. We call it a Koffie Verkeerd. Literally translated: Coffee Wrong! But if you order a Koffie Verkeerd and they bring a Latte, it is the wrong coffee...
One day when I was working in Mexico City I went for lunch with a Mexican colleague to a nice restaurant. When it came to coffee, all they had was Nescafé. We hailed a cab and on the way back to the office I said that I was shocked that a country that produces fine coffee should be serving Nescafé in good restaurants. The cab driver glanced at me and then said that his family owned a coffee plantation in Veracruz and it was shameful, but the big co-ops sold it all to European buyers and that it upset him that his own country knew nothing about their superb coffee. The next day I left a meeting in our boardroom and walked into my office to be ravished - that's the only word - by the richest coffee aroma possible emanating from a bulging greasy brown paper bag sitting on my desk. My assistant appeared and said that a taxi driver had appeared and insisted that this was for me. There was one word written in pencil on it... Veracruzano. A bag of coffee beans that, over the following two weeks as I ground and made coffee in my Moka, made me realize that this was the best I had ever tasted. And I have not tasted the like ever again.
Now that is a story
Nice. That was a fantastic cultural moment.
B@@citywitt3202. Now that is a sentence !
Coffee with a story, always the best.
I had a serving if fish with a story twenty years ago. Slightly unrelated but this cool story here reminded me of it.
It drove me crazy when in France to have to keep asking for an Americano coffee people would always assume I was American I’m Canadian but don’t like a double double I prefer black yes just coffee quit ruining it with add ins!!
The cutaways and punch lines are absolutely rib-tickling comedy gold! And yet what great educational content. Brilliant production.
You’re a bot aren’t you?
@@Jayfive276 eh? Ask me something no bot would tell...
I don't even like coffee... Comme quoi, an entertaining man can make you watch anything 😂. Merci de m'apprendre autant de choses aussi intéressantes ❤
I don`t like coffee either. I drink it only for the caffeine. I swallow it in a second, and I have to wash it down with something to make the taste of coffee disappear.
So interesting, many thanks! I love the Vienna's coffee houses, it is like to be in an ancient living room.
Adoro come dici "cosa vuoi?!" Funny story about "capuccino". They asked my grandmother in the restaurant: "Do you have a capuccino?!" and she goes: "Ma qui siam tutti riformati..." "But we are all Protestants here..." 😁W le nonne
French's reaction to instant coffee...I concur.👍😂
Have a great day ❤
You mean there are people who willingly drink it?
The horrors.
@@cuttwice3905 Most Indian households have instant coffee, because we don't have the time or money to bother with anything better.
Instant coffee is perfectly fine. Do you make your own pasta by hand too?
Italian supermakets sell "Poket Coffee", a wrapped chocolate bite with a shot of liquid (!) coffee in them. Often they are in the same shelf as Mon Chéri, a similate chocolate filled with liquor, just so that people can decide whether it's too late for coffee and it might be better to already switch to alcohol instead.
Don't forget the gift package assortment that comes with Raffaellos, too. It's called "Ferrero prestige".
Almost any coffee shop I’ve worked here in the US and most supermarkets sell chocolate covered espresso beans right at the checkout.
I Pocket Coffee sono strepitosi!!! 😋😋😋
Do people actually experience issues sleeping after eating chocolate with a small amount of coffee? I feel like coffee has no effects on me and all of those "I will stay up all night if I have a cup past 5 pm" seem like wild exaggerations to me.
"you're actually in one now, here's your coffee 🙂"....omg that was great 😂😂😂😂😂
Actually i am a little sad for not mentioning the viennese culture of coffee and their coffee houses (by the way culture heritage).
So if u interested in special coffees in Austria we have for example a coffee called "Biedermeier" = Coffee with whipped cream and apricot liqueur
"Kosakenkaffee" = small mocha in a one-spoon glass, mixed with liquid sugar, red wine and vodka
Just to mention two of many Specialities in Vienna (Austria)😊
Typical flavour of the original Viennese Coffee doesn't come from coffee but from the toasted seed of the Cornel tree (cornus mas) a wild tree that you can find easily in the Alps.
Exactly what I thought! Never underestimate viennese "Kaffehaus-Kultur" and the varieties of coffees you can get there! And it's not only the variety of HOW to make a cup/a glas/a bowl.... of coffee, but also the variety of coffee-beans and their roasting - and have you ever tried a cup of coffee IN a coffee roasting house? That smell.......🥰
"Espresso" in Italian also means "fast", an adjective that refers both to the speed of making the coffe and to the speed of drinking it.
It also means pressed!!! It comes from Latin and that's why it literally means the same in every Latin country around the planet. Meaning spanish for press is also expreso.
@@Deramirezv "pressed" in italian is "pressato, schiacciato".
"Espresso" means just "fast".
Different meanings 🤷🏻♀️
Love from Milan, Italy ❤
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It also means "expressed" as in "Espressionismo" or "espressione".
@@GeneralSamov you're right, BUT It has nothing to do with "pressed". I referred to the only translation of the Word "espresso" related to coffee 😊
@@elizabethbennet8984
Ok, fair enough.
I love these videos soooooooo much❤😅
Much love and support from Belgium 🇧🇪✌️
I moved to Texas from my home country of Venezuela, and coffee culture in the US is literally very difficult to overcome and get used to! 🤣 I was able to find coffee that was made more like in Venezuela, because even after 7 years living in the US I'll never drink what Americans call coffee!!! 🤪
I thought it was just a myth that americans have coffe, isn't it just coffe-flavoured sugar-drinks they serve?
@@eldoriath1 it's actually coffee beans, but I come from a coffee-rich-country Lol.
I’m French and I went to a Starbucks once, I couldn’t manage to order a normal coffee. Never went again. I thought coffee was a very complicated thing in America.
If you drink it black, just order a double expresso. It's not gonna be cheap but decent coffee. If you drink it with milk, sorry, I never bothered figuring them out.
They have coffee at Starbucks!? I thought it was just where you took selfies
Starcucks is literally the worst possible option for coffee in the US. It's terribly overpriced trash for people who need everyone else to validate their worth. Try a local cafe or diner instead of a garbage chain.
On the flipside, I'm a barista at Starbucks. I once served a guy who asked for coffee, and I gave him what we consider coffee. He came back to complain, and once I realized he was French, we understood each other quickly. Par contre, quand ce même bonhomme m'a demandé de la saccharine, j'étais complètement perdue 🤣 Je crois que l'expression qu'on utilise au Canada, à part nommer la marque directement, c'est édulcorant.
Sinon, ce qu'il faut commander c'est de l'espresso! Simple ou double (ou plus... je juge pas 👀), et on peut faire des allongés aussi. Il est possible de demander le lait ou la crème et le sucre à part si vous voulez doser vous-même. On laissait les carraffes et le sucre sur un comptoir désigné, mais comme on le sait tous, la pandémie a changé bien des choses...
Donc si vous avez le malheur de vous retrouver chez Starbucks à nouveau, vous saurez quoi faire 😜
I'm also French and the same thing happened to me, the first time I went to a Starbucks I was in my twenties and studying in Munich.
My “Starbucks experience is a large cup with my first name, filled with hot water, with a slight coffee taste and excessively sweet.
Today I am 40 years old and it was my only Starbucks experience… No regrets whatsoever.
Great video, great work as always! 🤩But you didn´t mention how much the Greeks looove their freddo espresso or freddo cappuccino, and even frappe which is great for the hot summer days! 🏖It is one of their smartest inventions of the modern era, although surprisingly not common in the rest of Europe😅
I really like these long form videos with the “__ makes no sense” outline. These videos are quite interesting and entertaining. Please keep making them, they are very good.
The story of the civet poop coffee is both more interesting and more depressing than someone intentionally trying all the different coffee poo.
If you haven’t heard it
Essentially the plantation workers were not allowed to keep any of the beans they picked they eventually got desperate enough wash off the beans they found on the ground and they decided they liked the civet poo coffee best, other people eventually tried it and liked it and now they trap groups of civets in little cages and feed them coffee pods all day.
As a Spaniard one of my favourite ways to drink coffee is with a little splash of alcohol on it (usually brandy). The simplest form (just espresso with a splash of liquor) is called "carajillo", then there's also Belmonte (you add a bit of condensed milk), asiático (like a Belmonte, but you also add some Licor 43), cremaet (you add a bit of rum and sugar and 'burn' it), and probably many many more depending on the regions.
As a Swede I can confirm that we drink a lot of coffee. There's the 10 o'clock and 15 o'clock fika, in addition we need 2-3 cups to get going in the morning, after lunch coffee ("kaffe på maten" - literally "coffee on food") which is 2 cups or so and then you get a cup every time you need to stretch your legs, go to the bathroom or are trying to seem productive and not at all procrastinating. My favorite coffee is the one that are a hot chocolate with a shot of espresso in it but as I'm trying to act like an adult, I take my coffee black.
Hey, swede here as well and if the 7.6kg of coffee average per year is correct, I wonder if they have taken everyone into account, even small children and babies since I drink about 1-3 400ml cups a day and it comes down to about 9-11kg coffee a year for me, I don't know but the average seems low....
And as a Finn, I can say everything said here is correct, and we almost double the amount Swedes drink. :D
@@weremuppet7625 yeah they just take kgs imported divided by the number of people.
There are adults in Sweden, that don't drink coffee. I even know a French person living in Sweden that doesn't drink coffee. Truly a unicorn among the reindeer.
Let's make a PSA for the Americans: if they want a normal brewed coffee they should order Bryggkaffe in Sweden.
Påtår, någon? O en bulle kanske?
"A coffee is a coffee, right?" - Cue anyone in South Europe dying from laughter.
Greek here, as fond of Frappe (not to be confused with a French frappe) and Freddo Espresso/Capuccino (not to be confused with an Espresso/Capuccino freddo) as I am of the Greek variant of the Turkish variant of Arabic coffee.
Kopi Luwak comes from Dutch colonizers forcing Indonesian people to grow coffee on their farms for profit but not allowing the farmers to have any of it. The farmers, wanting to try this prized crop they had to farm for other people's profit but couldn't touch saw that civet cats ate the berries. That's where Indonesian people got to actually try the coffee they were forced to grow. Once the Dutch colonizers saw what was happening and that the farmers enjoyed the civet cat poo coffee they also confiscated that.
Nowadays pretty much all Kopi Luwak is farmed where civet cats are held captive in tiny cages and force fed coffee berries because the hype around it being expensive (not necessarily good) boosted demand for it far beyond what was originally produced from wild civet cat droppings.
The beans being found in poop is probably the least disgusting thing about Kopi Luwak...
Yeah, Kopi Luwak is over-hyped. I tried a couple of times and it tasted like... totally average coffee. Absolutely not worth the suffering inflicted upon the animal. Especially since Indonesia has already tons and tons of excellent coffee grounds.
Well and worst of this is that maybe 15-20tons are produced but typically more than 100tons sold globally. Sad but true.
Animal abuse, poor things
I was looking for this comment. It need to goes up, and people need to stop buying this type of coffee.
If you ever come to Turkey, try "Turk kahvesi" Turkish coffee. Yes, only one type, no confusion. Just state your sugar preference: "sade": no sugar, "az shekerli": little sugar, "orta shekerli": medium sugar, "shekerli": with much sugar and "yandan charkli": "sade" with a cube sugar next to the cup ("yandan çarklı" literally means paddle steamer").
If you ask for a Turkish girl's hand in marriage from her parents at her house, it's a traditional must for the girl to make and serve you and your parent(s) Turkish coffee. Beware, your coffee will be served with salt. Don't make a wry face, just drink and say "ziyade olsun" may it be abundant, and she will answer "afiyet olsun" may it benefit to your health.
My family has been growing coffee since the first half of the 1740s when an ambitious ancestor acquired some plants from a smuggler. Climate, elevation, precipitation, soil composition and the plants that accompany a coffee bush's growth, plus the fuel used to roast it will tell you a great deal about the final product. Seasoned coffee inspectors can tell whether your pre-roasted bean were sun-dried for the prerequisite days before packaging for wholesale markets. Roasting beans with orange tree branches as fuel impart and unmistakeable taste and fragrance. Keep the brewing simple and ignore anyone who attempts to school you about complex machines to brew it.
I worked in Italy in bar for a while and the number of types and combinations with coffees it's just insane.
Absolutely true 😉
Moving from Belgium to the UK, I had a bit of a shock with coffee culture. Because the UK... has one! In Belgium, they will serve whatever sock juice they can get their hands on and when you ask for a Cappuccino, in most places they will serve you an espresso with whipped cream! The UK definitely has welcomed the influence of the US, however there is also a very strong influence from places like Italy or Spain, meaning you can expect pretty good coffee from a lot of places. Loic, you should jump on the Eurostar for a trip across the Channel one day ;)
Tu connais tellement bien la culture française et le français que j'étais persuadé que tu l'étais ; jusqu'à cette vidéo x) Well done !
In the Netherlands, Coffee shops exists but you're unlikely to go there to buy coffee (I don't even know if they sell coffee at all)
Yeah the name coffeeshop is user for soft drugs bars. But we almost hit the Swedish level of coffee consumption. Coffee is often made at home ( Senseo is a Dutch invention), usually free to get at the workplace and in larger supermarkets. If you want to buy one it is available in: cafe, restaurant, cafetaria, koffiebar and at plenty of Starbucks.
We usually have a 'kop koffie' that is halfway between an americano and an espresso. And you can get cappuccinos all day ( no frowning like in Italy), since many people drink their coffee with milk or cream in it.
In Italy, an "americano" is an espresso served in a large cup with a small jug of hot water.
In France, you also have "caffè creme" or "un crème," which is a very long espresso with a small jar (or a dose in a plastic container) of "cream."
In Italy, at any hour, you can find people asking for "un corretto," which is an espresso with a strong alcohol, usually "grappa" or "sambuca." Additionally, still in Italy, a "doppio" is two espressos served in a cup, usually in a large cup: (doppio in tazza grande).
There are many other varieties of coffee in Italy ("macchiato" with either hot or cold milk, according to taste), "marocchino", which is an espresso with cream and cocoa powder; then "caffè leccese" (an espresso with almond "milk" and ice cubes), and others. Then people may ask to have their coffee with full milk, skimmed milk, soya milk, etc etc
And it's not true that cappuccino is frowned upon if ordered after eleven a.m., I frequently drink it during the day if I need to postpone a meal, and no barman has refused to serve me so far.
Such a great video. Thank you very much for your creative and funny chanel.
Loic... your rhythm, and especially your editing, are absolutely TOP NOTCH. I don't know what plans you have post RUclips (if any), but I am certain someone will snatch you up. You are a great media creator. I wonder what kind of team you have behind the scenes... if this is all YOU and only YOU, Chapeau!
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Brewed black no sugar no milk... the best❤
Tea crying in the corner because it lost the coffee war.
I never miss any of his video
I am such a big fan of Loic
Can I meet you Loic
I'm serious about coffee, not about milk. My go-to is French (heyooo!) press (immersion brewing) with enough soy milk to make the coffee the right shade for my liking. TBF, what I drink is good enough that I could drink it black but hey, I stick with what I'm used to.
Hi from Finland! 😁 FWIW, I don't much care for the most popular coffees here, as they're, shall we say, sub-standard. It not like better coffee is even that much more expensive! If you drink like 8 kg of coffee a year, that's 16 bricks. A couple of euros per brick isn't going to break your bank.
I started down the espresso rabbit hole a few years ago. I've done my best to not let it get too out of control since I still can't justify spending a minimum of $1,000 on a half way decent espresso maker. I enjoy the art of making coffee with my Flair Espresso Maker PRO 2. It's very manual as is my hand grinder. Sadly finding a place nowadays that can make coffee as good as I make at home has been challenging.
The audacity other countries have on telling me at what time I'm allowed to have the coffee I want the way I want is baffling. I like cream and sugar and how dare anyone tell me I'm wrong in my OWN taste buds
I'm hungarian woman (we are in Central Europe), normally we drink coffee black and dense (espresso) with some milk in the morning or capuccino. Thank you for your video :) I speak italian well, french (middle level), some english and spanish. I really enjoy your videos when you are french person and english person and you speak about the differences of languages :) Thank you :)
Love you videos! You're very funny and sweet! The first time I went to Paris I was amazed by all the food (so good) and really loved their coffee!
Thanks for all the different coffee cultures. Egg coffee is not the only famous coffee in Vietnam, we also have very strong black coffee, milk coffee (w/ condensed milk), coconut coffee, etc. Our black coffee is very strong, we use a washable metal filter and brew coffee slowly with hot water. It could be said that the amount of caffeine in 1 cup of Vietnamese black coffee equals what you can get in 4-5 Starbucks if you consider Starbucks coffee.
Liked the video from Ethiopia 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
1:41 Actually in the Nordic countries you can order coffee with or without milk at any time of day. It's very acceptable to decline an offer of coffee late at night, but it's also perfectly normal to ask for or offer coffee at 23:00.
From what I've heard, the most probably hypothesis for the "only coffee with milk in the morning"-rule in most of southern Europe, is that fewer people are have adult lactose tolerance* there, so drinking more than one dose of fresh milk per day will upset their gut and that one dose will be best tolerated in the morning so it can be diluted by all the other food you eat throughout the day. (Cheese and particularly hard matured cheese is not as big of a problem because the bacteria that mature the cheese have digested most or all of the lactose in the cheese).
(* or more commonly formulated as "lactose intolerance" is more common there; but that's rather backwards, since almost all mammals lose the ability to digest lactose as they grow older; and tolerance of lactose as an adult is actually a fairly rare and relatively (evolutionary speaking) recent mutation that causes the normal mechanism to disable the production of lactase to fail. So It's fairly unreasonable to refer to _every_ normally functioning mammal in the world using the term "lactose intolerance" as if it's a disorder, when it's only a tiny minority of humans who actually are mutants who doesn't stop being able to drink milk as they mature.)
English!!! Yes, French..... I absolutely love these new vlogs. Thanks French.🤣🤣🥰 Niccceee!!!!
I'm from India, and we may drink coffee....but mostly we drink Tea ☕. It's like we are obsessed with Tea
Café au lait is my favourite way to have coffee! Espresso is just so much better than drip.
*chuckles in Australian*
I don’t miss much when I travel but Australian quality coffee is the one thing from home I’ll actively seek out.
As a Pom I would say some of the best coffee I have ever tasted was in Australia
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Rich history! Merci beaucoup for sharing! I've also heard that coffee culture got a start in Vienna when Turks were defeated after early bird bakers caught them planning an attack and alerted their soldiers to defend the city. After the Turks were defeated, the coffee beans they left behind were put to use in coffee and the crescent on the flag was the inspiration for those bakers to create the first croissants, or kipferl in German. When the pastries made their way to France the French perfected them into the traditional croissants we know today. I like cafe au lait, usually without sugar. I like the way they present it in an Austrian coffeehouse, on a silver tray with a long packet of sugar, a spoon, a small glass of water, and a cookie.
Great video ! Both interesting and informative.
I love these videos! thank you!
this channel along with Drew Talbert's one are the only reason i don't regret binging on RUclips's TikToks one sleepless nights.
" straight coffee into my veins"😂 that is the joke at my house! That i need a coffee IV straight into my veins.🎉
When it comes to western style coffee, I like espresso. I also like our traditional Arabic coffee. Just get a coffee pot. Pour water and let it boil, then add the desired amount of ground coffee and let it boil again once and serve.
We take coffee after lunch, and after having had eaten our meats that roasted on a coal barbecue, and the coal has settled down, we put the coffee pot on those very warm braises so that the coffee takes its time to brew. Maybe like the Ethiopian variety then.
We also add ground cardamom. In Turkey they add ground mastic.
In some Arabian countries the drink is actually mostly cardamom. So Arabian café noisette.
Watching this in a cafe near the Eiffel tower by sheer coincidence, and this helped me order and not make a fool out of myself by trying to order a latte. What are the odds. Thanks, Lois!!!
Man I love it! Great video great explanation! Lol and I thought I know about coffee but damm I discovered a lot ❤️💪🙏
As an Italian currently in Las Vegas I can say although Italian espresso (which is very different from the French watered down version) has more aroma and taste, American coffee actually makes more sense as probably more effect in keeping you awake. It's just overpriced about 10 times its actual cost, but that does not seem to bother Americans so why not.
Funny and good advise.
"no wonder you can work 40 hours a week" :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
I love French's personality❤❤❤
Being from New Orleans, my fave is Cafe Au'Lait and espresso. Love your content Loic!
Leipäjuusto (bread cheese) is awesome with coffee! The one called "kaffeost" or "coffee cheese" in the video. It's squeaky and delicious. You can eat it warm, by putting it in the oven and then enjoying it with cloudberry jam. Or in chunks in coffee. Props for showing the traditional wooden mug, or "kuksa". You could also take a fallen juniper bush twig, remove the bark, dry it and use that as a stirring stick. Gives a nice mild gin-like flavour that goes nicely with the coffee and bread cheese. But it's important that you pick only fallen branches because the tree itself is a protected species and cutting living branches is forbidden.
And the more I think about it the less sense this makes... you drink coffee from a mug made from a birch tree burl (a growth abnormality), stir it with a fallen branch of a specific tree and use cheese with the coffee... until now it was just... normal.
Great video!! Shared this with the owner of my favorite coffee roasting company, I Have A Bean.
Thank you Loic for posting this video today! I was just told that I have a non cancerous brain tumor which I did surgery for yesterday. This video has really brightened my day!
Quel anglais parfait pour un frenchy ! Et cette prononciation 👌
I like these commentary/comedy videos 🙂
My favourite type is Tea. 😎 Black tea. 🤗💪
You had me gufawing 😂!
I once had Kaffeost (coffee with reindeer milk cheese), it was indeed quite tasty 😋👍
Next episode: Tea maxes too much sense
In Germany (which is also Europe ;) ) the norm is the filtered coffee, which you called Americano.
1:46 I'd say most places in Europe having whatever form of coffee/milk mix is ok at every time of the day. To my experience mostly Italians will look weird at you.
It's an interesting take on coffee by Loic. I consider myself a "barista at home". There is also a type of coffee called "filter coffee" or "degree coffee" in southern India. Freshly ground coffee (preferably using a hand grinder) brewed using a brass filter with a tinge of sugar smeared over the ground cofee, fresh, hot milk poured over the coffee "decoction", and oh a dash of sugar, served in a brass tumbler!
(BTW, please also check James Hoffman's channel, one of the best for coffee lovers!)
I approve of your choice of coffee good sir, and I agree with the French that non-black coffee after morning is sacrilege.
You're awesome 😺
As an Australian, I must say that our friends in North America needs more coffee culture ☕️ come to Melbourne and enter into any café and enjoy explore the variety of coffee types 😉
You can get what Americans call a latte in Italy, you need to ask for a 'caffe latte'. And don't use Starbucks sizes outside of Starbucks.
Even in a Starbucks the sizes are confusing! I hate the whole thing and always repeat back orders in normal terms. So many ppl miss order a small (tall) when they wanted the large (venti)
@Luubelaar. I'm sorry, but "caffelatte" is something you prepare at home. In a bar you can ask for "latte macchiato"
I would probably say coffee with whipped cream as my favorite coffee ☕️🍦
The venti late bit...
Me: "Joke is on you, I am into that!"
that was so awesome, very well done and kudos on the Batman segue sting! i love when young people know the classics 😁🦇
Kopi Lewak coffee is the only coffee I will drink black. It’s so smooth that putting anything in it just ruins it. I’d love the try the Vietnamese version of coffee. That just sounds divine. I already put egg nog in my coffee during the holidays 😆
Hahahaha. Lol. It actually happend with me in Venice. I've ordered a latte, barista was like "Are you sure". 🤣🤣🤣 I said yes and he gave me a glass of milk.🤣🤣🤣And coffee with egg yolk is actually a cool thing. I had one in Lviv Ukraine. It was very delicious.
Here in Argentina a large coffee with milk is a "cortado", a large coffee is a "café doble" a strong one is an "espresso", you also have un "irlandes" which is a coffee with whisky, and the classic one is a "café con medialunas".
Loic... Love your content but for someone who speaks our awesome mexican version of spanish you keep forgetting to mention us in these vids.
Mexico has great coffee particularly in Oaxaca, Veracruz and Chiapas. And our "Café de Olla" (coffee with cinammon and sugar cane sugar) is really great with some sweet bread.
Saludos desde México 🇲🇽
"Brewed, black, no sugar, no milk."
A man after my own heart.
Haha if you order "un cafe au lait" in the afternoon, no-one will say anything, I mean your friend may say it's unusual but there's no chance the waiter/bartender would say anything, remember that it's your drink and they don't actually care about what you're having.
I am wondering what ways do other languages describe someone is currently doing versus was they did previously as with English if person it say word and adding ing to say they currently doing said action.
Japanese has a similar construction. For instance ikimasu means I go, somebody goes and itte-imasu means I am going. It doesn't seem obvious that the two forms are related, but it's the case.
I never liked coffee growing up. I always thought it smelled lovely but the taste was not for me. But recently I found flavored coffee and the one that I like has chocolate in it. I bought one from my local Dunkin’ Donuts and noticed that they made it “mocha” By simply adding chocolate syrup. The kind you put on ice cream? So I thought why couldn’t I make that at home and now I do.😊 I add the water to the drip coffee maker, put a little bit of milk in the bottom of the cup, squeeze in a little bit of chocolate, and a spoonful of sugar, brown sugar, mind you, the Turbinado kind. And that makes me happy.
In my view the Americans have over complicated the coffee scene while serving poor quality product often packed with sugar (seasonal coffee specials). The worst coffee I have drunk in England was at a Starbucks. We avoid them since then. When I lived in Australia I was surprised to see that Starbucks branches were closing down permanently because the Aussies are very particular about their coffee and won’t drink any rubbish. Well you did ask!
I ordered coffee in Paris a few times, everytime, it made me sad. The waiter thought I was crazy for drinking more than one thumb nail sized cup in a sitting. (I've been known to drink six shot Americanos at my local coffee shop in the States.) After Paris, we went to Dublin. I predictably ordered "the world's best Irish Coffee." I don't think a cup of coffee has ever made me happier. And the waitress was more than happy to bring me more when the cup was empty. I've had a lot of good coffee typically prefer just black pour over dark roast (no cream or sugar) but in the context of the moment that Irish Coffee was the best thing ever.
Just thought Irish Coffee deserved a mention in the comment section of this video.
Then again, I ordered a coffee in a Starbucks in Shanghai last month, and they announced a 2 to 3 hours wait. Never had that in France 😅
I love it dude!
We were in France just two months ago from Australia and had no issues with ordering coffee. Just ordered 2 cafe noir. No problems. Basically 2 long black coffees.👍🏻
❤ Props for mentioning Sàmi coffee from the proud great granddaughter of a Sàmi emigrant to the US!
I'm French and I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. When I was a kid, I used to see my family members looking like zombies until they had a coffee in the morning. I always told myself I wouldn't need some drugs to wake up.
As a morning zombie I approve this message
I'm glad you got to the right conclusion by the end...
I once spent a month in Australia. On the return flight I got a cup of coffee and thought, “wow, that’s really good”. The Costa Rican coffee on the other hand, really was good. Sin leche, sin azúcar.
Kenya has one of the best coffee beans in the world, it is grown in the Highlands and is naturally sweeter. If you want a "latte" in Italy you have to ask for a latte macchiato, which is milk with coffee.
In Europe you just say French /filter coffee and you get what you call American coffee
What's wrong with naming the coffee shop coffee? You call the forest the woods 🙂
The Asian civet poop coffee actually has logic behind it! The civet only eats coffee berries and it's very picky about the berries it eats (it only eats the best berries at peak ripeness). The beans aren't affected at all by its digestive system so basically what it poops out are the most perfect coffee beans that the coffee plant ever produced. Hence they make the 'best' coffee.
Unfortunately, commercialising this process has led to caged civets being fed only coffee cherries, so it's not able to be picky about them, which is really not ideal for consumers or civets.
There's still alteration of flavour due to transiting the digestive system and fermenting in the gut, and there are anaerobic fermentation processes that are not using animals similar to wine making techniques which also alter the taste of coffee, but they do add extra cost and are only found in niche speciality coffee.
During Brasil's Olympics a couple of american commentators asked for a couple cups of coffe and were served in the brazilian style: A noticeably small cup.
They then proceded to post of it on twiter and mock it for its sive. However once they tasted it they found out that the coffe wasn't small is was just quite dense. That small cup of coffe has probably hte same amount of coffe beans and caffeine as a regular cup of joe
In The Netherlands we have a coffee drink similar to a Café au lait or a Latte. It is an extra strong brew with steaming hot milk poured over it. We call it a Koffie Verkeerd. Literally translated: Coffee Wrong! But if you order a Koffie Verkeerd and they bring a Latte, it is the wrong coffee...
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Latte in Italy 😂😂 true story happened to me..