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What seemed weird when I visited your country
LookingIn:
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--- 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.
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Frappaccino is a combination of frappe and cappuccino, it's basically a sleazy way of selling someone a frappe mixed with flavored coffee.
Real frappes to most people are almost exactly the same as milkshakes with the only adjustment in my opinion being that frappes tend to be all ice cream while the milkshake adds milk in place of one or two scoops of ice cream.
LookingIn:
--- Quote from: Welu on 03 Nov 2013, 14:54 ---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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It's a regional thing and an older generation thing, if I didn't live in a beach city that has them being sold by every restaurant in the summer and my mother didn't love getting them once a month I wouldn't eve know about them
Lines:
I've only ever heard frappes as a term for frozen coffee and don't typically have ice cream in them, just coffee, ice, and milk/sugar/etc.
GarandMarine:
Oh. Something that was really weird in Japan that I took to like a fish to water. No open container laws, and just about no stigma for walking around drinking a beer at all. It was glorious. Get a cold beer from a vending machine and walk through a park on a warm summer night. Perfect.
cesium133:
That's similar in Brazil. The physics department I visited had a party/get-together thing just off campus the one night, and I walked back to the physics department with some of the grad students. We were all carrying cups of beer, and I started to get worried as we walked onto campus, because you have to show your ID to the security guard to get into the physics department. We get there, he sees all of us carrying cups of beer into the building, and just says "Boa noite" ("good evening").
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