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WCDT Strips 3141 to 3145 (25 - 29 January 2016)
Wildroses:
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Jan 2016, 20:27 ---
--- Quote from: Wildroses on 28 Jan 2016, 19:53 ---That was such typical Emily. She actually meant it, and wasn't trying to pass Faye's test.
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Emily just doesn't speak Starbonics. I don't either, so maybe I'm mistranslating, but what would you do with a "quad venti" (five US pints, or about 2.4 litres) of coffee? Give it to your pet hippo?
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You are asking the wrong person. I'm Australian. Starbucks failed miserably when they tried to come here. They ended up closing down 60 of their 84 stores a mere eight years after entering Australia, and when I looked at all the places that still had Starbucks they were all places the foreign tourists went like the Gold Coast and Sydney. When Starbucks arrived in Australia back in 2000 thinking they were going to introduce coffee culture to us, they discovered a market of people who already had a strong coffee culture after a lot of Italian and Greek migrants in the 1950s based around the espresso that were decidedly unimpressed with these overly sweet and milk filled beverages purporting to be coffee. American's put way more sugar and milk into their coffee than Australians. I've heard people describe American coffee as 'coffee flavoured milkshake'.
So I didn't understand a damn thing Faye said. An Australian does not understand if, on the rare occasions you must specify what size coffee you want, the words 'small/medium/large' are not used. An Australian does not understand how a coffee can be 'upside down'. An Australian does not understand why anyone would put caramal in their coffee (Seriously? Please tell me I'm misuderstanding the ingredient and you don't actually put caramal in coffee).
Perfectly Reasonable:
I don't think Emily wants to step into -those- shoes.
Also, when I order a 'large' at Starbucks, they always give me a 'venti'. As if I don't know what I want...
What -do- the Aussies say? Bloody huge?
'What a relief.' Otherwise it would have been on the 'Specials' board tomorrow...
cesium133:
Also, the "my body is ready" line just sounds kind of bizarre.
Wildroses:
Actually Australian's don't have much sized coffee. Most places you just walk into the cafe and say: "Gimme coffee" and the staff go "here" and give you a standard sized mug, with not a lot of variation between different franchises and stores. It's probably because we like strong flavoured coffee, and if you start mucking about the sizes you risk the flavour becoming overpowering or watered down, so having the same size mug is easier for the baristas.
Tova:
Wildroses, I guess you don't live in Sydney, then. Most cafes in Sydney do, in fact, sell coffee in different sizes.
Also, Akima wasn't actually asking you specifically, I imagine. :-P
Edit: I forgot to answer the question: regular/large is the usual selection, I think. Unless you order something like a piccolo or a macchiato, where the size is implied.
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