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08/03/2005 08:52:59 AM · #1 |
So I am in Starbucks this morning, and I feel like I need a little more jump-start than regular coffee can provide me. So I order a large coffee and a double shot of espresso. I usually end up with two separate drinks.
The woman behind the counter calls over to the barista, "Doubleshot for a hammerhead!" I bristle - I mean who exactly does she think she is calling a hammerhead? I'm all sensitive at 6:45 in the morning. I prepare to launch into my own verbal tirade, but then I see her take my coffee cup over to the barista, who pours the espresso into my coffee. Apparently "Hammerhead" is the code word for espresso dumped into regular coffee. So I learned something today.
And it's good. I left Starbucks armed with an incremental boost to my vocabulary and enough caffeine to keep a dorm wing up all night.
Just thought I'd share :-) |
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08/03/2005 08:58:10 AM · #2 |
Lol, my fantasies revolve around double shots and anything that would keep a dorm wing up all night.
Hmmm, might be tmi...
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08/03/2005 09:55:12 AM · #3 |
I have been drinking coffee since i was 6 or 7. i live on the stuff. I never had 'fancy coffee' till about a year ago. I have become addicted. about 2 months ago i bought my own capuccino machine. (mr coffee makes several models, starting at $30). I will have to try this Hammerhead thing.
Something else I heard about in coffee - that is MUCH better than it first sounds - it was Ray Charles ' favorite - gin in coffee.
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08/03/2005 09:56:48 AM · #4 |
Oh my god, I find the whole coffee shop vocabulary hilarious!
skinny latte caramel extra shot no froth to go!
LOL
Whatever happened to: "Can I have a coffee please?" ?
LOL
Not that I can talk, I usually ask for the following:
A regular latte please, how many shots does that usually include? two? ok can i have mine extra weak with just half of a shot only? no not half strength, that would be a full shot, I want mine quarter strength, half a shot will be fine, thanks and oh can you make that with fair trade coffee please? Thanks
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08/03/2005 10:37:16 AM · #5 |
| lol, I hang out in coffee shops. This just made my day. I guess since I have been going every morning since i could drive I forgot that talk like that isn't normal. lol thanks alot, you made someone smile today |
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08/03/2005 10:42:56 AM · #6 |
Mine's usually: Can you make that a quadruple?
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08/03/2005 10:43:09 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Kavey:
Whatever happened to: "Can I have a coffee please?" ?
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You can still do that at Tim Horton's. You just have to specify what size and how much milk/sugar.
I wouldn't just ask for coffee in the UK. You'll get that instant crap. Unless, of course you go to Starbucks. ;)
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08/03/2005 10:50:31 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Originally posted by Kavey:
Whatever happened to: "Can I have a coffee please?" ? |
I wouldn't just ask for coffee in the UK. You'll get that instant crap. |
I wouldn't either!
And I prefer Costa Coffee to Starbucks though I won't actively avoid Starbucks as some of my friends do!!!
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08/03/2005 11:16:04 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Kavey:
Whatever happened to: "Can I have a coffee please?" ?
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$1.39
Originally posted by Kavey:
A regular latte please, how many shots does that usually include? two? ok can i have mine extra weak with just half of a shot only? no not half strength, that would be a full shot, I want mine quarter strength, half a shot will be fine, thanks and oh can you make that with fair trade coffee please? Thanks |
$4.35
If you wanna triple the price, you need to quadruple the name!
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08/03/2005 11:21:42 AM · #10 |
| Regular coffee, black, no sugar Cumby's: $1.56 for 20 oz. I don't get all this fancy stuff. |
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08/03/2005 11:24:54 AM · #11 |
I do'nt get the caffeine fascination period. And if not having your morning cup of coffee yet makes you want to leap over the counter and freak out because you THINK someone just offended you verbally - maybe you need rehab :-) Just sayin'....
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08/03/2005 11:45:47 AM · #12 |
I don't have a caffeine "fascination" any more than I have a "fascination" for anything else I enjoy eating or drinking. I just take pleasure in it. Simple as that.
And it's not the caffeine I dig anyway - I like the flavour of coffee itself.
Confused you don't get that others might like a product that you don't like.
I agree that if someone wants to leap over the counter and freak out they have some serious issues!!!
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08/03/2005 11:48:34 AM · #13 |
I am a spoiled coffee drinker.
I can not stand preground coffee in a can, it has to be beans that I can ground myself.
Starbucks is the "library", or the "university" of coffee exploration. You pay a tuition of $5 bucks a coffee, but what you recieve in return is the knowledge of a well made cup of joe.
At work, I only drink from the craft service table, and never from the caterer. I think the caterer recycles his grounds because it totally sucks.
During a 12+ hour day, I expect a decent cup of coffee, or I get cranky.
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08/03/2005 11:49:51 AM · #14 |
When I was back home I drank espresso all the time.....my usual was a "Mexican mocha, double shot, with whip cream (mind you they made their own whip cream, not out of a can). Unfortunately Florida (where I'm at anyhow) is not big on coffee houses. They have a little coffee place down on Harrison Avenue and a starbucks just opened up by the mall ... and it is tttiiinnnyyy!
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08/03/2005 11:53:58 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by Kavey:
Confused you don't get that others might like a product that you don't like. |
I'm the Queen of the World didn'tchaknow? *giggles* Don't be silly Kavey. That's a joke, too. |
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08/03/2005 01:24:05 PM · #16 |
| The original post was intended as tongue-in-cheek humor regarding what I thought was a humorous start to my day. Just in case there are any doubts, I don't really plan on jumping any Starbucks counters in the near future. I think most people got it though. |
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08/03/2005 01:28:57 PM · #17 |
Coffee with espresso poured in it has dozens, if not hundreds, of names. Red eye, Black eye, Shot in the Dark, Depth Charge, Scooter Shooter, Eye Opener, etc.
I have a personal belief that coffee should be straight coffee and espresso should be straight espresso. For some odd reason, whenever I have one of the aformentioned drinks, they taste vile and bitter. All I ever drink are: Coffee, Espresso, and Lattes - usually a double in 4 oz of milk.
Coffee in America, and pretty much throughout the world, is horrible, which is why people hate espresso so much. Surprisingly, the drink can be sweet and intense and subtle and flavorful - everything you could possibly want it to be.
If you don't believe me, check out the other forum I frequent:
//www.coffeegeek.com |
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08/03/2005 01:41:02 PM · #18 |
Why oh why did I ever taste a caramel macchiato or a mocha bianca? If you haven't, trust me...DON'T. You'll become a hopeless addict as well. ;)
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08/03/2005 01:53:49 PM · #19 |
| You haven't tried the Brazilian coffees, 'Bom Jesus' and 'Pilao' :-) |
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08/03/2005 02:36:27 PM · #20 |
| My Starbucks stock has been beddy beddy good to me. Thank you all. |
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08/03/2005 02:43:16 PM · #21 |
Time for coffee!
I live in Starbucks land and my wife recently got into the whole espresso thing and bought an expensive "prosumer" maker and grinder and now we supply all the neighber kids with carmel-machiatto-grande-mocha-cappucino-venti drinks.
My strategy is to let her give them away for free for awhile until they become hooked, then start charging for them. muwahahaha!
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08/03/2005 02:52:11 PM · #22 |
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08/03/2005 02:52:31 PM · #23 |
mmmmmmm Tim Horton's coffee. I usually drink two large per day. We don't have a Starbucks around here but I get one any time I can ... just bold coffee none of that fancy shmantzy stuff.
Message edited by author 2005-08-03 14:53:02.
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08/03/2005 02:57:19 PM · #24 |
In the summer: Iced-venti-quad-mocha-whip
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08/03/2005 03:21:15 PM · #25 |
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