It’s National Cappuccino Day!
You don’t need an expensive machine to make a cappuccino at home. Prepare your espresso or extra-strength coffee and top with frothed milk. Lable your brew with this Fake Italian Coffee Name generator. Or swing by your local coffee shop or national chain for an overpriced cup of joe.
Don’t forget the Pup Cup for your best friend.
Do you have a regular cafe, a fan of holiday flavors? Talk about coffee, or tea, or anything at all.
Regular French-press decaf at home, and then a late-morning mocha from S-bucks for some real caffeine and sugar.
ETA: The Fake Italian Coffee Name Generator (FICNaG) says I would probably enjoy a “Valtertovola Lungo”, which, if I’m being honest, does not sound pretty.
It sounds like a disease.
I took Fanny for a Pup Cup on Saturday. I don’t like Starbucks very much but I am a sucker for marketing. Call anything a limited edition or seasonal release and I automatically want it. I had the Sugar Cookie Almondmilk Latte. I was underwhelmed. Fanny loved the Pup Cup though.
@MemeWeaver At least you didn’t get Urite Lungo. That sounds like an extra-long piss.
Second try was Effusione Artusiconote Decaffeinato, which sounds like coffee sweats.
Nomatica Lungo for me…which means store-brand coffee with a dollop of half and half.
I got Alero. Sounds fancier than my Trader Joe’s coffee with half and half. I have an espresso machine but was too lazy to dig it out of the cabinet.
Antena Lungo Decaffeinato
That is not an appetizing name.
cheap instant might be coffee
ive been drinking it for so long i now think its good
which is probably a sign of mental illness
welp whatever…it gets me started in the mornings
Even the worst coffee is better than no coffee.
amen to that.
Veltondo Decaffeinato
The fucking audacity. I don’t drink coffee, but if I did you can bet your ass it wouldn’t be decaf.
Decaf is an abomination!
Decaf is a lie!
Coffee and I are no longer friends, so I’m a tea gal these days. Earl Grey is my favourite, with a couple spoonfuls of sugar (I have a yuuuge mug for my tea. No dainty little things for me!) English breakfast is good, too, and peppermint. Otherwise, my caffeine comes in Mountain Dew flavour.
Fun fact: I have never been to a Starbucks, not even the drive-through.
I salute you, Starbucks virgin. Unfortunately, I’ve been dragged there by friends when we were teens and had to just bite the bullet and reluctantly show up there for a couple of meetings where I didn’t choose the location. I think I drank tea or ate a banana rather than order the coffee.
Starbucks is overrated and overpriced. I like the coffee from McDonald’s better. I’m not much of a tea drinker but I love the smell of Earl Grey. I think it’s bergamot?
Yup, it’s bergamot! It’s a hint of flowery, a hint of medicinal, and really goes well with black tea. Whoever came up with Earl Grey was a culinary genius.
Yeah, I kinda knew that Starbucks was not a crowd favorite here, but can I put in one argument for them?
As most of you know, I’m in Idaho, and Idaho is a state that does not like masks or vaccines. And despite animosity from anti-mask/anti-vax chuckleheads, and a state government that says, mostly, do what you like, the local Starbucks employees ALL mask up. And they encourage customers to do the same, something that a lot of local places are afraid to do.
So I go in there because they are doing a far better job of limiting the spread of COVID than any of the local shops. And the people who work there are still local, so I console myself that I am helping them as well.