Coffee Shop Slang and Jargon.
Coffee shop culture.
Over the last few years coffee shops have sprung up all over the place, it's now a more popular place to meet up with a friend then the pub. Part of it's success is due to the sitcom friends, where the gang would all meet up and socialize in central perk.
The Sex and the City girls also liked to spend some of their time together gossiping over a soft beverage. When we look back just a few years before, the popular sitcom cheers was set in a bar and later came the spin off Frasier, which coincidentally featured a coffee shop.
Peoples lifestyles and attitudes to their choice of beverages and where they spend their time to socialise have significantly changed and coffee shops are cool.
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5 of the big brands.
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Coffee Republic.
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MacDonalds.
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Caffe Nero.
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Costa Coffee.
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Starbucks.
Coffee shop chains from around the world.
Name
| Country
|
|---|---|
ATM coffee
| UK
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Arcaffe
| Israel
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Barista Lavazza
| India
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Blenz Coffee
| Canada
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Bourbon coffee
| Rwanda
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Cibo Espresso
| Australia
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Highlands coffee
| Vietnam
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J.Co Donuts
| Indonesia
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Kaffebrenneriet
| Norway
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Old Town White Coffee
| Malaysia
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Robert Harris Coffee Roasters
| New Zealand
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Tchibo
| Germany
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UCC Ueshima coffee co
| Japan
|
A few little known coffee facts.
Coffee is a term applied to the drink, the beans and the genus coffea which is part of the madder family.
There are over thirty species of genus, but we only use three of them.
- C. arabica
- C. canephora and
- C. liberica.
The coffee plants bloom fragrant white flowers but only for a few days.
It takes about five years to grow before a coffee tree can produce a full harvest.
The best places to grow coffee are:
- Java
- Sumatra
- Arabia
- India
- Africa
- West Indies
- Central and South America
In 1972 the coffee industry in America was worth $1,200,000,000.
Caffeine is removed from coffee by treating it with chlorinated-hydrocarbon solvents before roasting.
The cultivation of coffee is believed to have begun in Arabia, near the Red Sea in 675 AD.
Quick Coffee quiz.
view quiz statisticsCoffee shop terms, the slag and translation.
Term
| Translation
|
|---|---|
Barista
| Expert at making espresso
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Breve
| Espresso with semi-skimmed milk
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Cake in a cup
| Double cream and double sugar
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Crema
| The foam on espresso that is think, dense and golden
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Double
| Two shots of coffee
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Double cupping
| useing to take-away cups to prevent hand burning
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Double fun
| Flavouring milk and coffee
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Drip
| Regular filter coffee
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Dry
| foamed milk not steamed
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Grande
| Large cup
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Granita
| Latte with frozen milk
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Harmless
| Skinny and no fun
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Lungo
| A long pull of espresso
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Macchiato
| Spotted/marked/marbled
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Quad
| Four shots of coffee
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Short
| Small cup
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Shot in the dark
| A cup of drip and a shot of espresso
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Skinny
| Semi-skimmed milk
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Tall
| Medium size cup
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Triple
| Three shots of coffee
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Wet
| Milk steamed not foamed
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Wild
| With whipped cream
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With room
| Not filling up the cup to the brim
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With wings
| To go
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