• MudMan
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    91 month ago

    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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      51 month ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      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.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 month ago

              Unfortunately not, but I’m clearly talking about countries. I’m not saying every Spanish speaking country should use “cafe negro”, I was just stating that a good chunk of Spanish speaking people do use “cafe negro”.

              • @Shardikprime
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                11 month ago

                I’m just saying, that “most Spanish speaking people are Mexican” is dangerously doing a heavy lifting. Take that as you will

        • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @stq9
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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:

    • @Luvs2Spuj
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      01 month 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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        121 month 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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          71 month 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!