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Thread: when posh coffee is a ‘joyless travesty’

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Tim Hayward (Parody)

@timhayward

Oct 20, 2018

Aaah. Another steaming mug of intensely fashionable single-estate coffee, sumptuously packed, carefully ground, and smelling of Copydex and cat-arse. I’m heading to @fitzbillies for a real one.

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Yes. Double black. Single or double espresso. Greek/Turkish coffee, or some other, local style. No BS five-named "special" coffee. Fuck all of that.

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Oct 20, 2018

Flat white?

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Oct 20, 2018

Milk in coffee induces trembling in my fingertips and other incipient signs of rage.

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Haha, your hatred of white coffee is amusing. PS: I try to avoid getting stuck in the extremes of fancy-snobbery and anti-fancy snobbery. But some of the most supposedly fancy coffee I’ve tried was just disappointing. I can relate to Tim’s reaction.

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It's skin deep. I just get intensely disappointed whenever someone presumptuously pours milk in my coffee. Folks can like what they like. I can scorn their choices silently. ;)

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Put differently: for some people, snobbery is about class markers and positioning oneself socially. For me, it's mostly about ticking people off.