My coffee order wasn’t weird?

[MeetyouatMidnight]

Went to a local volunteer run cafe and a woman at the till was training someone.

I asked for a black americano with a shot of vanilla.

She looked at me like I was crazy and said “you mean a white americano”. I explained I definitely did not.

(I don’t have dairy and don’t really like any sort of milk in coffee anyway, but I like something to sweeten it. I prefer it to a sweetener.)

she said SO loudly “I’ve never seen that before! A latte or something yes, but really!”

and then the girl started to make it but was getting confused so the woman kept very loudly, in a quiet cafe, banging on about how she would be confused because it was a strange order but the customer is always right…

Am I a freak and I never realised!?!?

This is my order too op! However, I’ve also been told it’s unusual. Iced black americano with vanilla syrup blows their mind 😂 but I love it!

Tbh it's weirder to start a thread about it.

I miss the days when you could just order black filter coffee. Costa did it for a little while, £1 a cup too and a million miles nicer than an Americano.

Its good she checked... its not good that she had a melt down over essentially a black coffee.

I ordered a ristretto once and the drama that caused was ridiculous!

I’ve never heard anyone order that’s - vanilla latte, vanilla cappuccino. Vanilla black Americano is a bit odd op but you do you

She sounds like an idiot. I mean an American is a black coffee. You wanted a black coffee with a shot of syrup. It's not weird or rocket science.

Well, that's weird, as an americano is always black. I just ask for an americano and no-one has ever asked if I wanted milk with it. We do take coffee more seriously where I live however

Sometimes I order a hot milk with a shot of syrup 😋

I drink Americano (black) and if you don’t ask for it black, they put milk in, so I ALWAYS say ‘black Americano’!

volunteer run cafe

I actually think it’s unusual in that I’ve never heard anyone order it and I have a lot of friends who I go for coffee with.

however I’ve never worked in a coffee shop and I imagine they have heard it all. The whole point of an expensive hand made coffee is to have it exactly how you want! She was rude to make a thing of it!

I don’t order it when out, but my coffee “order” at home is a very strong americano with a teaspoonful of Biscoff spread stirred into it. Highly recommend it!

Hmmmm .... Not convinced. Does it not just taste like a biscuit dunked in coffee?

A bit, but not in a bad way! It just takes the edge off the bitterness and adds a hint of spice.

These are my orders, too!

Milky coffee shop coffee makes me feel sick.

I also have it with a caramel shot not vanilla . I might switch it up and try vanilla

Then they have no idea what an americano is.

I completely agree. If places still offered filter coffee, it might help avoid some of the confusion around whether Americano is expected with/without milk. An Americano is meant to be a specific drink, espresso based, served black. A filter coffee is not espresso based and probably closer to what people have in mind when they just want a ‘ coffee with milk’. I get so fed up of asking for filter coffee and they say ‘ we don’t do that but you could have an Americano’ ( watered down!). That is not the same drink at all!

I have my americano with a small amount of milk. Lots of people in the UK don't want the large amount of milk you get in a Latte and I don't think having an Americano with milk is odd, it's a different drink to a latte. Milk in an expresso is more unusual. I'll occasionally have a syrup in it but usually find them too sweet, I'd like the flavour with less sweetness. Putting a shot of syrup and a bit of milk in an americano isn't difficult

Nope. You're paying for the coffee you have it as you like. Don't feel inferior, they're the weird ones.

The thing is you went to a volunteer led cafe. I imagine the volunteers are there because they have some sort of need or because the cafe has a particular ethos which is beyond serving coffee. If I wanted a really slick experience in a coffee shop ,then I would go to somewhere else.

This actually sounds really nice, I’m going to try it.

But no I don’t think it’s weird or you either! Surely it’s the same idea as having one of those vanilla Nespresso pods? But obviously much better quality?

Is an Americano known as a Long Black in Australia?

@MeetyouatMidnight nope, not weird. Lately when I've asked for a bog standard white coffee, they all seem to think it's a flat white. Why? I only like a little bit of milk or cream if they have it (which is also what they think that squirty crap in a tin is but is actully foamy sugar).

DH drinks mostly iced black americanos, and he usually has to specify no milk multiple times. And even then he often still ends up with milk.