If you go out for a coffee and order a latte, you are drinking a hot coffee flavoured milkshake. Let’s stop calling it as such. If you had a coffee-flavoured ice cream, you wouldn’t call it a coffee, would you?
So why do we do it with lattes?
Latte is the Italian word for ‘milk’. If you order a latte in Italy, arguably the home of coffee, you will get a glass of milk and rightfully so. The weakest coffee drink they will give you is a cappuccino and if you order a coffee, they will give you a shot of espresso.
My heart sinks when I stand behind someone in a queue at a cafe and someone orders a latte. Not only is it a waste of coffee beans, it’s a waste of milk. Only babies drink big bottles of hot milk, so why is it normalised as adults?
Corporations are waging a war against proper coffee and we, true coffee aficionados, must fight back. There isn’t such thing as an Iced Caramel Machiato from Starbucks, despite what they tell you. A machiato is, and always will be, an espresso with some milk foam. I don’t know whatever nonsense they serve at Starbucks is when you order one, but it ain’t it.
So, reject corporate coffee chains. Drink local, speciality coffee and don’t order anything weaker than a flat white. A cappuccino at worst.
Learn to enjoy the bitter taste of an espresso. It’s an acquired taste, but it will change your life.
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