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Posted by Phillip Torrone on May 14, 2005 at 12:14 AM


Wolfgang Puck is releasing self-heating coffee- can't wait to pick one up and use it for some projects! It took a California company named OnTech seven years and $24 million to create the self-heating cans, which are activated by pushing a plastic button on the bottom. Water flows into a sealed inner cone filled with quicklime, which is mostly calcium oxide. A chemical reaction heats the coffee to a pleasant 145 degrees in six to eight minutes, the amount of time it might take to order, pay for and receive a latte from a barista.
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COFFEE MOVIE - L.A. Story

Guy with neck-support: I'll have a decaf coffee.
Trudi: I'll have a decaf espresso.
Movie critic: I'll have a double decaf cappuccino.
Policeman: Give me decaffeinated coffee ice cream.
Harris (Steve Martin): I'll have a half double decaffeinated half-caf, with a twist of lemon.
Trudi: I'll have a twist of lemon.
Guy with neck-support: I'll have a twist of lemon.
Movie critic: I'll have a twist of lemon.
Cynthia: I'll have a twist of lemon.

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defective yeti :

Coffeclature

I dunno about your town, but here in Seattle people have pretty much invented their own language in regards to their espresso selections. It's like one of those native Indian languages where, instead of constructing sentences, they instead express complex thoughts by taking a base sound and then modifying it with a series of prefixes and suffixes, so the net result is a single, gargantuan word, spoken in single breath. Seattlites take a root like "mocha" and tack on a bunch of qualifiers to the point where, when asked for their order, they spit out some monstrosity like "triplesoyextrahotmochawithwhip."

My word is "singletalllatte." That's relatively new. Until a few weeks ago my word was "singletalldecaflatte." But I've fallen off the non-caffinated wagon, so the "decaf" prefixed has been dropped.

Well, it's supposed to be dropped. But that's the catch: now that I'm readdicted to caffeine, anything I do before my singletalllatte is done in a fog. And very once in a while I'll accidentally get my old word and my new word mixed up and unknowingly blurt out the wrong one.

It's basically a crapshoot which of the two words I mutter on any given morning. It's the worst of both worlds: since I'm again dependant on caffeine, accidentally ordering a decaf leaves me lethargic for the remainder of the morning; since I'm drinking decaf every third day, my caffeine tolerance isn't rising, and a singletalllatte therefore hits me like a jolt of electricity. And since the two drinks taste the same, I don't even know what I'm drinking as I stumble back to the office, nursing on my coffee lid teat.

In fact, on a typical day I pretty much have no clue as to what I've ingested until 40 minutes later, when, during a meeting with management, I either nod off or leap to my feet and cry "BRING ON THE ACTION ITEMS, BABY! BRING ... THEM ... ON!"

Posted on March 02, 2005

" Yeah, "coffee lid teat" is going to improve my Starbucks experiences from now on.
Miss Weeze, I'd never heard of infix. I thought it was called tmesis.
When in a coffee joint I usually say, "Smalltea, please."

Posted by: ken on March 4, 2005 07:55 AM"

"Well, two things: singletalllatte is redundant.Talls have only one shot.
...and if you want decaf, say decaf tall latte. Decaf comes first.
Secondly, to make the whipped at Bucky's you pump 4 pumps of vanilla syrup in the whipping cream and then charge it in the dispenser. It is sweetened.
And for the record I drink: tripleventibrevetepidnofoamlatte.
Posted by: fredlet on March 4, 2005 11:09 AM "

" Tmesis! I love it. This might be my new domain name.

Posted by: Miss Weeze on March 4, 2005 11:54 AM"

"Tallbrevenowaterchai.
Kudos to fredlet (whom I suspect is a current or former Starbuckian) for knowing that decaf comes first - unless the drink is iced, in which case iced comes first.
Posted by: Lisa on March 4, 2005 02:23 PM"

" I was behind a woman at Starbucks ordering an incredibly long and detailed drink. After finishing she apologized to the counterperson for having such a complicated order. The counterperson who looked like a sasquatch with a shaved head, piercings and tattoos bellows out for the entire room to hear, 'NEVER apologize for your drink. You are your drink.'

Posted by: Sam on March 7, 2005 03:44 PM"

"If you read down the boxes on the side of a starbucks cup they're pretty much in the order that you would call them. relatively. nobody get a "talllatte" anymore, apperantly it's passe- the new drink of the week is a "triplegrandebrevenofoamlatte" or possibly an "icedventihazelnutnowaterristrettoamericanowithtwoinchesofheavycream".

Posted by: cat on March 7, 2005 08:26 PM"

" Wende, re: coffee to milk ratio, even within the U.S., Coca-Cola now changes its recipe for regional tastes. Or so I have heard from an Atlanta native.
What I cannot believe is that nobody has mentioned this from L.A. Story:

Guy with neck-support: I'll have a decaf coffee.
Trudi: I'll have a decaf espresso.
Movie critic: I'll have a double decaf cappuccino.
Policeman: Give me decaffeinated coffee ice cream.
Harris (Steve Martin): I'll have a half double decaffeinated half-caf, with a twist of lemon.
Trudi: I'll have a twist of lemon.
Guy with neck-support: I'll have a twist of lemon.
Movie critic: I'll have a twist of lemon.
Cynthia: I'll have a twist of lemon.

(Thanks to Seattle-based Amazon for keeping imdb.com alive.)

Bingo "triplecrankypantsespresso" Pajama

P.S. That's no infix, if anything it's a run-on adjective string. Even from the given example of an infix, if 'decaf' were an infix, then the order would be something like "singletalllatdecafte" or, hey, even "latsingletalldecafte". :)

Posted by: bingo pajama on March 8, 2005 09:56 AM"

my drink

tripleventibrevetepidnofoamlatte

translation:
triple - 3 shots of espresso
venti - 20 ounce cup
breve - 1/2 and 1/2 steamed
tepid- 140 degrees
no foam - scoop that shite off and fill it up with more 1/2 and 1/2
latte