Definitely don't ask for it in Spanish!

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Wait what

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In southern Europe, almost everywhere has an espresso machine. Only fancy hipster coffee shops have filter coffee. They're not prudes, they just dont see the point in having to have a completely separate machine for coffee that only gets used once a week just to accommodate a bunch of annoying ass tourists.

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Not sure I'd call them prudes, it's just that anywhere that serves coffee - every coffee shop, restaurant, bakery, pub, etc - has a grinder and a "professional" (multiple taps) espresso machine, it's just "standard" - I don't think I've seen a coffee pot other than in niche American-styled dinners, or hotels for tourists. Asking for an Americano is a thing though, but what you get is an espresso in a mug.
The "drip" variety usually tastes either very bland or quite burnt, and doesn't punch the same way, so the common view is that it's "watered down" coffee and not well regarded.

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I believe I've been misunderstood. Not having drip coffee doesn't make one a prude. Scorning others for their preferred beverage preparation makes one a prude.

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I believe I've been misunderstood. Not having drip coffee doesn't make one a prude. Scorning others for their preferred beverage preparation makes one a prude.

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Personally, I’d be like “what the fuck are talking about?”

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Most Spanish speaking people are Mexican. We ask for café negro. Now, the interesting part is that if you want a café negro in any cafe, and you feel awkward about it, you can ask for a café americano. It's curious how the café negro in this setup is the "American coffee". Then again, we don't think America is America, we understand America as the Americas.

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There are still quite a few around Ohio. I haven't been in years though, because yea, it's disappointing now.

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I guess I'm not in my right mind then. At home cowboy coffee only, I don't even have a French press or a v60. Although in my country we call it tramp coffee.

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Neat! I've always heard it's super gross. But I guess anything can be done well, and the gross stuff was probably due to lack of care.

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That's Germany only. It's a very, very small subset

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Apparently it is a term that began with WW2. It's highly regional and not many people use it

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Most? Where?

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Beans, lightly macerated

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The term regular size coffee implies the existence of irregular size coffee

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Like, in the world?

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My guy have you met south America

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Unfortunately not, but I'm clearly talking about countries. I'm not saying every Spanish speaking country should use "cafe negro", I was just stating that a good chunk of Spanish speaking people do use "cafe negro".

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"Large" and "Small" being considered "irregular" sizes of coffee.