To be feel a little bit annoyed when they ask me if I want milk with my Americano?

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Um, obviously not, hence why I've specified an "Americano". I know whose fault it is - people asking for one and then asking for "a bit of milk" as well

I always ask for black coffee, and get fed up with being asked if i want milk. If it has milk, it isn't black.

But a far, far worse crime (imo) is always being given a wee jug of milk with my pot of Earl Grey in Marks and Spencer. No. No. NO.

I ask for americano with milk, as I do not like frothy coffee, i like a long tall coffee with some milk. I don't like espresso topped completely up with milk. It is too much.

There's a chain of coffee shops here oop north where even if you ask for a coffee with some cold milk, the order is always shouted thru as "coffee like tea". Has me in stitches on the rare occasions I go! Maybe we should spread this nationwide to please the op?

I wish I lived oop north..endless entertainment!

Re: "Would you like some overpriced, tasteless cardboard with your drink?"

It's a sad fact that most large chains (and many smaller ones) pretty much hand you a script for talking to customers. We have to ask which size? Would you like milk? etc. etc. Because you might just be a Mystery Shopper...with whom lies the power to have me fired!

Besides, sometimes the food's not that bad! (Unless it's frozen...)

NetworkGuy It's the big blue one that hasn't been mentioned by name yet!

"coffee like tea" ! lol! my northern auntie asks 'would you like earl grey or proper tea' hehe!
In coffee shops I always ask for a filter coffee with milk and they always say 'oh we don't do filter coffee, would you like an americano with milk?' so thats what I have because they don't have filtered brewed coffee, as nice as it is, it's in no way the same thing!
The thing with the panini plural is that it's already part of the english language so the italian doesn't really count, how many people say tagliatelle wrong? or don't know that spag bol is spaghetti Bolognese, and if they do, they spell it bolognaise!!

Make it Black, Add cold milk, Enjoy the cream, Like an overgrown cat. mmmm. Cream.

GG - whichever it is, doubt they've reached this part (N Wales) as Chester gets all the glory...

Have never been in any of these joints, though I guess the only fun I am missing is poor staff/customer relations !

I have americano with a dash of cold milk, as I dont like really milky coffee, if find latte and cappuccino to milky and sweet.
I like really strong coffee, but not black, more like a v ery dark brown.

Maybe I should order a very, very dark brown americano?!

I came across a comparison (2 years old) and I guess, GG that it's Caffe Nero. As I expected, there are 2 in Chester, and none where I am...

Still - this thread has taught me the word 'barista' which seems like common parlance to many on MN but was foreign to me...

If it is them, GG, please ask someone to e-mail me (peter @ web-hints.info ) a list in a spreadsheet, or CSV file, because they managed to shift my town to England and in a portion of the map I only checked for completeness!

I will be happy to correct their list, so Wales gets one (perhaps more) added, and will also 'list' them in a UK-wide database I'm building up... (shops, restaurants and services for consumers not businesses, family friendly only, so no casinos, lap dance clubs, booking shops, etc... a site suitable for any school or PTA to recommend, where 80+% of profits would be ploughed back into PTA and other community groups / community projects, via a fund-projects charity).

To get proper tea in a pot you need to go to cafes aimed at old people i.e the cafe in BHS or C&H fabrics, they don't have an espresso machine so it's filter coffee or pot of tea, yay! (or go up north! )

We have nero in the next town and soon to open up next to Halfords - as starbucks have a shop in siansbury on the same estate - nero want to compete.

I find the staff in nreo in town very pleasnt and considering that the company they work for doesn't notice bank hoidays and consider them another working day regardless...shame

I don't venture in their often as we have a couple of three local cafe's that do know how to make coffee and how to serve, that is nothing agianst nero staff they know how to serve but the cooff isn't much good.

One of the cafe's make all their cakes and pastries aswell - so you know tha it may well be loaded with calories but at least their isn't any cardboard put inside

When I was 17 I was in a newly opened coffee shop with my new date, and I ordered an espresso, thinking it would arrive more quickly I was surprised with the thimble of black stuff that arrived!!

Now, I love an americano, and savour the time I get to sit and drink one if I'm out. I also like a filter coffee if I think the beans aren't too bitter i.e. old, back of the cupboard for who knows how long.

I love the Columbian Fair trade coffee one cup filter thingies from MnS as a treat at home - though why they don't have one or two plastic thingies and the rest as coffee bags I don't know - it is more environmentally friendly..
Freeze dried Kenco coffee isn't the worst - IF you just need the caffeine (and no I wasn't one of those lucky MNers who won that competition).

I think that TIME is actually what this thread is about - IF you get time to sit down and have a coffee, you want it to be right, as you don't have time to re-order if it's not right.

We are time starved.

Incidentally, I read somewhere a black filter coffee, americano and espresso have no calories - the others can whack up quite a calorific load if you're not careful, especially with full fat milk etc. Some of the Starbucks confections can be 400 calories plus - that's a meal!

I think you will find that a starbucks panini has 1000 calories

Sorry to hijack thread but this is getting a lot of replies so wondered if I could redirect you lovely lot to this thread and for you to vote - with or without froth, up to you!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/994976-Would-all-you-lovely-Mnetters-be-able-to-help-PussinJimmyChoos?msg id=20638922

Well I killed this thread didn't I!

not quite...I like an americano with ...hot milk...

Drink it while you are voting

I work in a cafe and half of people want an americano on its own and half ask for it with cold or hot milk so I always ask if they would like milk with it as it saves me going back and forth twice to get a jug for the milk!