Comments on: "This is NOT a cappuccino"

By: amandaa

amandaa — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:03:17 +0000

just saw this and have to comment. i agree–trying to get a decent cappucino in town is generally an exercise in wasting money. certainly if one only goes to starbucks, cosi, or even port city java. not only is there usually too much milk in the drink, the milk has usually been steamed and resteamed multiple times to the point where the foam is hard, dry and disappears with one stir. AND (to be a total curmudgeon), half the time you’re getting nonfat milk without realizing it–and that pretty much ruins any coffee drink, in my opinion.

murky coffee was a place with great cappucinos, and tryst still is, though–at almost $4 a pop–it winds up feeling like a splurge.

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By: Julia Frey

Julia Frey — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:28:21 +0000

Hee hee hee! Thanks Jenn! I had been in Italy just a few months before I moved to Seattle, so I knew BEST!

By: Jenn Larsen

Jenn Larsen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:57:48 +0000

Julia, I love you. "In ITALY" – yeah, if I were a barista that is exactly what I would say. In DC though that might get you fired.

Don, Carl, Ben – thank you for the suggestion. I think carrying around a riding crop downtown would be most… illuminating.

Seriously, I am always always sweet and polite when I ask it to be remade. Perhaps that’s the problem.

By: bhrome

bhrome — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:38:33 +0000

That’s right, Jenn! Stick up for all us coffee snobs! I agree with Carl and Don – beatings must increase in intensity, as clearly they didn’t hear correctly.

By: Carl Weaver

Carl Weaver — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:54:26 +0000

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

I have an employee who just quit her part-time job at Starbuck’s because she couldn’t take another person yelling at her about how the coffee drink wasn’t made the right way, despite it being how it was ordered. I don’t think I would last a week.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:18:11 +0000

The problem, as always, is not enough beatings.

By: Julia Frey

Julia Frey — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:34:19 +0000

I can relate, but from the other side…years ago I was a barista in Seattle (not at Starbucks) and these ladies came to my counter wanting cappuccinos. I pulled the shot, steamed/frothed the milk and did my equal measures of espresso, steamed milk and foam. They woman almost jumped over the counter "What are you doing?!?" I said, "I’m making a cappuccino." She said, ‘You’re doing it wrong! You’re not supposed to pour any milk in!" I said oh so politely and officiously (because I really didn’t care that much, I was just so bored) "In ITALY, this is how you make them, etc etc etc and if you want me to make you a shot of espresso with just some foam on top, I can do that, no problem, but that’s not a cappuccino. Which would you prefer?" The ladies calmed down and said they would try my "cappuccino." HA! I was 26 and enjoyed my mini coffee rants.