Afternoon sunshine

[Water Warrior 2]

Wow, this turned into a neat subject. Europeans have been lead astray, we all have at least one Coffee maker per household. With the exception of non coffee drinkers of course but that is assuming they never have company come visit.

Starbucks may seem a bit high priced but part of their profits go into world wide projects like providing clean drinking water to kids in 3rd world countries. A lot of their expensive nik naks for sale are produced in 3rd world countries with the idea of providing jobs and a better life for the folks. A lot of said sales profits are pumped right back into the emerging economy to brighten the future. This was told to me by the local manager who seems on the up an up.

[alantf]

Originally Posted by alanmcorcoran

(1) When I was in Barcelona, the default coffee was what we would call "espresso" (2) I think you could ask for blanco

(1) We think of Barcelona as being in Cataluña, not Spain. They have their own culture, language etc.

(2) Nearly, but not quite! It's "café con leche" (coffee with milk), & it's usually only foreigners who would want it that way.

:2tup:

[alanmcorcoran]

That's right. It's been a few years. The language is deceiving - sort of half french half spanish - I sort of know french but sometimes I ordered stuff that wasn't what I thought it was. A very beautiful place.