to seriosuly consider strangling a friend who thinks she has coffee the 'proper' way because she has it black?

[bytheMoonlight]

If I have to hear one more time how having milk in my coffee makes me not a 'proper' coffee drinker I may strangle her Agghhh!!!!

Why oh why does she think this?
And how do I convince her she is wrong?

Please help me put a stop to this daft conversation forever!

Ask her to pronounce latte, if she puts an r in it 'lartay' she is not a proper coffee drinker and has no fucking idea, also has watched too much american tripe...

Coffee should be black.

Cows milk is for cows.

You admit that you are wrong, and your friend will forgive your momentary madness.

The daft conversation will be no more.

Oh, you can't reason with coffee snobs, or wine snobs, or chocolate snobs, or whatever. Smile and nod, smile and nod and then give her some instant cap columbie or worse still Nescafe Blend 43 and if she asks where the "crema" is spit on the top and say "there, bitch"...

My brother is a coffee snob. He roasts his own fucking beans

I have a Nespresso machine. And I don't recycle the pods.

And I drink it as a latte.

Just to spite him.

With chocolate on top

Although presumably you do know you should never drink cappucinno after 11am

AFAIC the correct way to have coffee is the way that tastes best to you.

No, Bark, you should never drink cappucino after 11am. After 11am, you should Irish it up...

Tatty - I have a Nespresso machine as well - absolutely love it!

Minus273 , that is not the AIBU way.

You can't go around being all reasonable.

The OP is quite obviously wrong!

Tall skinny salt caramel mocha with hazelnut syrup please.

(I enjoy the dichotomy of skimmed milk alongside caramel & syrup)

Tatty - I have a Nespresso, don't recycle the pods and drink it as a latte too! You will have to come round for a cuppa at my house!

Salt caramel mocha? Where are you, Vivi - New York?

Yes, give the pretentious friend this black of course.

HAH! I do the exact same with our Nespresso machine. Usually add a sweetener too. DH drinks it as potent little shots from thimbly little glasses. Doesn't look any where near as treat-ish as mine.

I was in new york, Xmasbaby. . Now back home in deepest Leicestershire the closest I'm getting to salt caramel is when DP uses salt pig scoop for the sugar.

You are so NBU. I have a friend who spent a year in Italy and rams the fact in your face every time she has an espresso after lunch (NOT a capuccino). It drives me mad, it's so suburban to make such a big deal about having lived in Italy for, what, about 5 minutes.

I had a friend at university who wouldn't eat garlic bread with pasta as "the Italians would go mad". This based on a 10 day package holiday with her mum and dad.

YABU if you are infact "seriously" thinking about strangling her! That worries me - do you have anger issues?

tell her it makes her breath smell
I'm not keen on the smell of coffee.

YANBU !

I wonder what your friend would think of me, I put coffee whitener and a splodge of milk in my coffee !

The joy of globalisation is that now everyone can have their coffee exactly as they want it on and not as local tradition dictates.

My firend told me I was a philistine for putting butter and jam on my croissant. I just smiled and enjoyed it.

My sister tried to accuse me of being a food philistine for not being prepared to try chicken feet and for saying they looked stringy - two weeks later Rick Stein took my view. I rest my case: people who try to be snobs are too insecure of their own views to actually develop their own tastes.

I love the sound of the tall skinny salt caramel mocha with hazelnut syrup.

YANBU at all. I have always made a point of violently ending the lives of all my friends who do not share my taste in hot beverages.