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Black coffee appreciation
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It can also be called black if you put sugar in it, at least in my experience.
I'm not a Starbucks customer, tried it twice and realized it is everything I despise all rolled into one.
I love black coffee with no sugar. If it's horribly bitter swill I may put one sugar in it.
I generally drink iced coffee. Almost every day before work I'll order a large black ice coffee from Dunkin Donuts. Most of time I'll get what I ask for but at least once a week I'll get anything from a latte to a hot chocolate. I suppose "large black ice coffee" is hard to understand sometimes.
I generally drink iced coffee. Almost every day before work I'll order a large black ice coffee from Dunkin Donuts. Most of time I'll get what I ask for but at least once a week I'll get anything from a latte to a hot chocolate. I suppose "large black ice coffee" is hard to understand sometimes.
I drink iced espressos in the summer, the only time I'll add sugar. Just too bitter when ice cold, and I really like bitter tastes.
I always enjoy assuring the McDonald's employees who aren't Griselda that no, I don't want any cream in my coffee. No sugar either.
Griselda gets it right every time
Griselda gets it right every time
McDonalds does make good coffee though. Especially iced. And it's cheap. They almost always give me a light and sweet when I ask for a large ice black coffee.
I get an ice coffee at my local McD's every weekday.
Same as the hot coffee. Dark and bitter
I used to have zero tolerance for people who added things to their coffee, insisting in my mind that they were ruining the experience and should be thus banned from drinking coffee.
I was convinced that once they had really good coffee, roasted and prepared properly, they would see how good it is plain and enjoy it as I do.
Well, that's not true. I tried.
I've come around in the last year or so and find that coffee is enjoyed many different ways, and it's OK if someone else doesn't enjoy it the way I do.
-Mike
I was convinced that once they had really good coffee, roasted and prepared properly, they would see how good it is plain and enjoy it as I do.
Well, that's not true. I tried.
I've come around in the last year or so and find that coffee is enjoyed many different ways, and it's OK if someone else doesn't enjoy it the way I do.
-Mike
It's good though. I sip on my morning ice coffee though out most of the day and supplement it with cups of hot coffee from the machine at work. Keeps the mind-numbing, soul-draining monotony of my job from driving me to insanity and burning the building to the ground.
This dude is a good one: Amazon.com: Cuisinart DBM-8 Supreme Grind Automatic Burr Mill: Kitchen & Dining
I recommend that one to folks quite a bit when they don't want to spring for a $$$ one.
-Mike
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[
]Uh, no it doesn't, strictly speaking, and one could argue it's still black if sugar doesn't change the colour... [/]But logic has little weight in these fixed expressions. It actually appears as there's been a (relatively recent) shift in meaning.
A number of dictionaries still list milk and cream as the critical (in their absence) components and omit sugar from the definition:
black coffee - definition of black coffee in English from the Oxford dictionary
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Black coffee - Straight Dope Message Board
What is the definition of drinking your coffee black?
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Probably the thing is, sugar simply didn't count in the original French and 18th century English calque but it very much does now, so "black" has become synonymous with "pure" in this case (funnily enough, since it's the opposite in many others) as you said.
This is one of those areas where usage rules over prescriptive norm, and if a substantial majority of native speakers say it means milkless and sugarless, then milkless+sugarless it is, or at least that becomes the primary definition: that's why I simply acknowledged the expanded meaning of the phrase shown in most posts here.
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an engel, sweet as love.
No sugar, no milk, no yadda yadda creamoso latte my butt.
No sugar, no milk, no yadda yadda creamoso latte my butt.
I've had that before, particularly with espresso as well, usually my response to the espresso one is, "the only thing a shot of good espresso needs is a shot of good whiskey to chase it."
They're okay sometimes, I don't always want it black, but usually that's how I'll take it - black, and with the darkest roast you have.
straight up black for me.
first cup of the morning is full on ethyl...followed by 5-6 cups of decaf throughout the day.
don't much see the point of diluting coffee with creamer and sweetener. . . That turns it into
something else.
first cup of the morning is full on ethyl...followed by 5-6 cups of decaf throughout the day.
don't much see the point of diluting coffee with creamer and sweetener. . . That turns it into
something else.
