• MudMan
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    Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?

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      Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?

      ¿Cómo se dice “black” en español?

      • Ignotum
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        452 months ago

        I think the Spanish word for black is N
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            • @qbertOP
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              It’s not taboo in Spanish. It’s literally how you say black.

              right, but if the dude in the comic gets nervous and has an issue saying black in English
              then it would be multiplied if he said it in Spanish

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            Look, there’s half a billion of us and I’m not gonna reject the possibility that wherever you’re from people say “café negro” for some reason, but yeah, no, it’s “café solo” as far as I’m concerned. You might as well call café con leche “café beige”.

            • misterdoctor
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              52 months ago

              Hey, you know that it was just a joke, right?

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              Look, there’s half a billion of us and I’m not gonna reject the possibility that wherever you’re from people say “café negro” for some reason, but yeah, no,

              Go to Google Maps and search for the phrase: “Cafe Negro Mexico”
              There are several cafes named that and if you search South America there are some there too.
              Here’s one in Mexico City:

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              Most The first majority of Spanish speaking people are Mexican. We ask for café negro. Now, the interesting part is that if you want a café negro in any cafe, and you feel awkward about it, you can ask for a café americano. It’s curious how the café negro in this setup is the “American coffee”. Then again, we don’t think America is America, we understand America as the Americas.

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                  Sure I worded this weirdly. As far as nationalities go, there is no other country in the world with more Spanish speaking people, by far. There. But that wasn’t even the point. The point was that >100 million Spanish speaking people would ask for “café negro”.

                  EDIT: Merriam Webster accepts “most” as a synonym for “greatest in quantity, extent or degree”, which is not necessarily at least half plus one. Then again, I’m not a native English speaker. I edited the original comment to be clear.

            • @Luvs2Spuj
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              02 months ago

              My first time in Spain I asked for café negro and was corrected to say con leche. Not in a ‘that’s racist’ kind of way, but in a ‘that is inaccurate, even though we understand’ way.

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                122 months ago

                “Café negro” (which I’ve never heard for black coffee) would be “Café solo” or “Café sin leche” (literally, “coffee by itself”, or “coffee without milk”). “Café con leche” would be coffee with milk, which definitely is not black coffee.

                • @Luvs2Spuj
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                  72 months ago

                  Ok I remembered wrong. It must have been sin leche that they corrected me with. It was a long time ago and I haven’t spoke any Spanish since!

      • @nixcamic
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        42 months ago

        I live in Latin America and order cafe negro al the time. It’s not pronounced like negro is in English.