1st world problems

[Mich the Tester]

What are latte/cappuccino supposed to be like, properly?

Ask Baldrick;

E: Coffee, Darling?
D: Yes please. And, make it a milky one.
B: I'll get onto it, sir. Sugar?
D: Erm...two lumps
E: Think you can manage two lumps, Balders?
B: I'll have a rummage around, and see ehat I can find.
D: (who has received his coffee) Ah, cappuccino! Do you have any of those brown flaky bits they sprinkle on the top?
B: I could...
E: No, Baldrick.

[Gibbon]

What are latte/cappuccino supposed to be like, properly? Most places do them as frothy rubbish but a local independent place here does a latte which is strong and thick with just a thin layer of foam, more like a regular coffee really. It's the only latte I like but I'm not sure if they are the ones getting it right or not.

What you've described is a cafe latte macchiato to give it it's proper name which means
coffee (expresso) milk and marked with foamed milk. If you ask for latte in Italy you will get just milk as Mrs Gibbon found out.

A cafe cappuccino, in Italy anyway, is coffee and foamed milk and can have chocolate sprinkled on top, giving a lighter stronger drink. Named after the capuchin monks who wear a white habit and brown hood.

[Mich the Tester]

What you've described is a cafe latte macchiato to give it it's proper name which means
coffee (expresso) milk and marked with foamed milk. If you ask for latte in Italy you will get just milk as Mrs Gibbon found out.

A cafe cappuccino, in Italy anyway, is coffee and foamed milk and can have chocolate sprinkled on top, giving a lighter stronger drink. Named after the capuchin monks who wear a white habit and brown hood.

Asking for a bottle of red wine is easier and more satisfying.

[Gibbon]

Asking for a bottle of red wine is easier and more satisfying.

But not for breakfast, which a latte and cappuccino are for, ask for one in Italy after about eleven and you're considered a women or child or ignorant tourist.

After eleven start on the negronis

[mudskipper]

What you've described is a cafe latte macchiato to give it it's proper name which means
coffee (expresso) milk and marked with foamed milk. If you ask for latte in Italy you will get just milk as Mrs Gibbon found out.

A cafe cappuccino, in Italy anyway, is coffee and foamed milk and can have chocolate sprinkled on top, giving a lighter stronger drink. Named after the capuchin monks who wear a white habit and brown hood.

Indeed - this happened to me at clientCo's Italian office. Sugary warm milk was quite nice though

[Mich the Tester]

But not for breakfast, which a latte and cappuccino are for, ask for one in Italy after about eleven and you're considered a women or child or ignorant tourist.

After eleven start on the negronis

Fair enough. Red wine for breakfast is perhaps a little bit, erm, French.

[Lockhouse]

Fair enough. Red wine for breakfast is perhaps a little bit, erm, French.

Or Italian. Last red wine I had for breakfast was at Nerbone's at the Mercato Centrale in Florence along with a huge beef sandwich.

[d000hg]

Ta Gibbon. I can't be doing with all this froth.

[OwlHoot]

Blister Packs, ...

Thick plastic sandwich covers where there's no flap to open them, and if by some lucky manufacturing fault there is a tiny loose bit you need fingers like an oakum picker to use it

Ordering a DVD from India, and receiving a post office card saying there's £20 import duty to pay before it can be delivered. FFS, it's not gold bullion!

White wine with added sugar - Had a bottle the other evening, and couldn't get to sleep for 3 hours, with my heart thumping. Obviously riddled with sugar - Isn't that illegal anyway?!

[OwlHoot]

well apparently a latte is a shot of espresso filled up with frothy milk

not even sure what a capuccino is though.

nor a mocha choco chino either

Give me a cup of instant coffee every time, Alta Rica or just Nescafe. Can't be bothered with all this over-priced frothy rubbish