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What seemed weird when I visited your country
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 03 Nov 2013, 13:14 ---
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 03 Nov 2013, 13:10 ---The lack of tipping culture outside the United States always kinda weirds me out, but by the goddess I wish we ('Murrica) would adopt it.
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That'd mean you'd have to start paying people decent wages. Which I can assume you'd be fine with.
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Yep.
Jimmy the Squid:
--- Quote from: Linds on 03 Nov 2013, 13:38 ---Decent wages are a guarantee, decent tips are unreliable "charity". Fuck tips, they're stupid.
Also, Jimmy, basically you just need to go to a dairy bar/ice cream parlor. Yeah, we've got our frozen frappe thingies, but those are not real milkshakes and most restaurants do not actually sell them. Restaurants are too focused on cookies, pie, and cake as a dessert most of the time.
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Yeah see that's the problem though. I can go to literally any cafe in Sydney and they'll do milkshakes. It's just a given that if a place does both coffee and tea then they do milkshakes as well.
Welu:
--- Quote from: LookingIn on 03 Nov 2013, 12:58 ---You were in the wrong state :D Cross over into Connecticutt and the other New England states and find an ice cream parlor. Every one that serves them does so with the intent that they make the best...just make sure to call them "frappes" not milkshakes- we get defensive about the name even if it's ridiculous to do so.
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Aren't frappes specifically iced coffee though, as in short for frappuccino? I've only heard that name refer to that. Milkshakes are a different thing here (UK/Ireland) if that's the case.
LTK:
I would have thought it was obvious that 'frappuccino' is a portmanteau of 'frappe' and 'cappuccino'. I've heard of café frappé but I didn't actually know what it was until I looked it up on Wikipedia. Here's what it says:
--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---In the United States, "frappe" has two meanings, only one related to coffee, and neither connected to the Greek coffee drink.[10] In the northeastern region of New England, a frappe (pronounced "frap" and spelled without the accent) is a thick milkshake.[10] [11] A coffee shop there, in Boston, Massachusetts, combined a milk shake with coffee and called it "frappuccino".[10] When Starbucks bought the shop, the Coffee Connection, it bought the trademarked name.[10] The Starbucks in Greece offers both Frappuccino and Greek-style "Frappe" (written by Starbucks without the accent).[12] Since then frappe has entered the American lexicon as an iced coffee drink, either sold chilled or frozen. Many of Starbucks' competitors, in the United States, in the Philippines and elsewhere, have begun offering drinks similar to the popular and trademarked frappuccino and called them "frappe" with or without the accent, some which do not include any coffee.[13]
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Welu:
The closest Starbucks to me that I know of is about 80 miles/130km away from me and I've never been in one or any specialty coffee place. I've also only found out a frappe was a thing just now in this thread so I naturally assumed "frappe" was short for "frappuccino" and not a different thing. So no, it's not really obvious.
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