Ponce Alert! The things people order in coffee shops.....

[Earlybird]

Heard a man today ordering 'a shot and a half espresso', followed by a woman who ordered a 'double skinny latte with one shot decaf and one shot regular and chocolate on top'.

Are their tastebuds really so finely calibrated?

at Flat white coffe - so, is it served on the saucer, then?

LOL! i always order decaf skinny latte!!!! sometimes they look a bit baffled and i have to explain, veerrrry slooowwwwly decaffeinated with skimmed milk. this is devon though

[superior]

ugh, caffeine

A flat white is a cap without the froth.

so really it is just black coffee with milk?

AKA white coffee

I can't believe you are discussing what is a flat white
Its just coffee with milk, no froth, no stuff sprinkled on the top, just a nice plain milky coffee!

At home I drink one shot shot skinny latte, so that's what I order when available (sometime decaff too) and yes I really can tell the difference if they put semi milk in and I find it too bitter if it's too shots and if I drink too much caffeine during the day I am awake half the night. I don't thin I'm a ponce but if I'm going to pay £2 for a coffee that I may as well enjoy it?????

I will not use the term "Vende" or "Grande" etc!!! It's a small of large coffee FGS!

i used to work in a touristy coffee shop and the amount of women who would come in and order hot chocolate with the works and then get their own sugar free sweeteners out to add with a prissy look on their face.

LOL!

(how many people had to go and make a coffee whilst reading this thread - I did)

I noticed in Pizza Express on the kids menu they can be a Bambinicino (something like that anyway!) - no coffee, just frothed milk with choc sprinkles on top (start them young) !

my kids hated it

mine loved it. caught them trying to make one at home. difficult without a frother but they had a messy time trying.

I always order a large decaf skinny late. Don't see anything poncy about that, its just the way I like it

"Bambinicino" Oh dear god no. In Starbucks I ask for "2 kids' hot chocolates please. One with whipped cream, one without" and that's exactly what I get.

I have skinny decaf, sorry.

Skinny - don't like the taste of other milk; also another way for me to cut out excess fat
Decaf - can't drink caffine as it makes my heart race and causes palpatations.

I have a large decaf skinny cappachino.

Oh yeah, DD loves Starbuck's children-sized hot chocolate.

Noooo, you can't have a large one, it has to be Grande or something equally poncey.

[bleugh] at wheatgrass, but am ashamed to say I understood the whole of that order

I need to get out more