Monk who gave cappuccino its name beatified. "Mother Mary, full of caffeine..."
(Via Blog Of Xanadu.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at April 28, 2003 12:00 PMEh. Cappuccino is mostly foam anyway. Real men take their coffee black, which means that monk ought to be consigned to the sixth circle of yuppie hell.
Posted by: Dave at April 28, 2003 at 02:21 PMNo way. Cream and sugor in my coffee, always!
Posted by: Andrea Harris at April 28, 2003 at 02:40 PMI mean, "sugar." "Sugor" is my home planet. Har.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at April 28, 2003 at 02:41 PMWell, Abbot Suger (pronounced Frenchily, soo-zhay) was an advisor to Louis VII (Eleanor of Aquitaine's first husband), and pushed for the building of Notre Dame de Paris. Not that this has anything to do with anything, but these are the tangents that come to my mind from misspelling "sugar."
Sugar yes, cream no: tell the Turks that it's unmanly to take coffee "sweet as love but black as death." Cream is for tea (and if you don't think tea is manly, take it up with the British Army).
Posted by: David Jaroslav at April 28, 2003 at 03:55 PMNope -- I hate cream in my tea. One thing I learned on my one-and-only (so far) trip to England, was to be careful to order my tea "black," or it often came pre-creamed. Ugh.
I like Turkish coffee, though.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at April 28, 2003 at 04:14 PMThe cream can be overdone, obviously, but tea is more subtle than coffee. This is part of a ritual, and notable by its absence: no cream in the tea makes 4 PM upstairs at Harrod's, Brown's or Fortnum & Mason feel somehow incomplete.
Yes, I'm a snob and I revel in it.
Posted by: David Jaroslav at April 28, 2003 at 05:32 PMSnob! Pooh! I refuse cream in my tea! The lemon makes it all curdly.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at April 28, 2003 at 05:54 PMSo, this guy is responsible for McStarbuck's? Next will be St. Chip, inventor of the mocha latte?
But personally, I'm with Dave (for both tea and coffee).
Posted by: Ken Summers at April 30, 2003 at 09:02 AM