Pretty much just “coffee” or the specific name for the type…I’ve never even thought to order it “black”. Just con leche, cafecito, etc.
We call that “an American” coffee in Mexico, as in un café americano or un americano. It used to trip me up because I expected café negro. Odd regionalisms, I guess.
Americano is usually espresso watered down most everywhere, no? I guess I just assume it’s not what Americans generically call “black coffee” which is drip coffee. If I ordered Americano most places outside the US I’d expect the espresso version, not drip.
Customer: “can I get a coffee, black?”
Robinson: “can’t you see I’m talkin, white?”
Zach and Miri make a porno, right? Knew the bit in the comic was familiar
It is indeed
It’s weird that a bag of beans tells you it’s black coffee. Like, yeah, of course it is, but I can add milk, cream or olive oil to it if I want.
I’ll take an African American coffee.
African Americano
Come on 🤨
El americano es negro.🤨
Paparo Americano
You’ve just offended the Jamaican guy who doesn’t have US citizenship.
That’s okay, he won’t be here for much longer come next year.
In latin america we say “Mi negro, mi flaco, mi gordo, mi pelado” (“My black, my skinny, my fatty, my baldie”) and could not care less. Sometimes even to strangers.
Wow, I was way off. ☹️ I guessed “my flaccid black penis is named Gordo”.
Nice
should’ve gotten tea
White, please.
Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?
…where’s your instrument?
Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?
¿Cómo se dice “black” en español?
I think the Spanish word for black is N
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It’s not taboo in Spanish. It’s literally how you say black.
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
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”.
Hey, you know that it was just a joke, right?
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.
“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.
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!
Now go look in that box of Crayola for the one that’s gonna trigger the SJWs to fight against a language because some hillbillies used a word as a slur and now live rent-free in everyone’s heads.
I appreciate your takes on these things. It always gives me a huge boost of self confidence.
So what does BLM stand for again?
Bartin Luther Ming
Bureau of Land Management
Bacon, Lettuce, Momato?
Bacon, Lettuce, Mayo
Buddy Likes Mochas
…an espresso?
Espresso != A regular black coffee. Espresso is way more concentrated, and is brewed using pressure. Regular black coffee implies the drip method.
for the rest of the world normal is espresso and the thing with drip or wtv doesn’t even exist.
Nah, it’s not just murica. Here in Germany for example, if you order a cup of coffee you usually get filter coffee. If you want espresso, you have to order espresso.
in france “un café” is an espresso.
if i was served a “filter coffee” somewhere, i would never go back there. Who serves filter coffee ffs!
Its also not true in the US. At least not anywhere I’ve lived or traveled to.
That’s not true in most of northern, central or eastern europe, and arab coffee drinkers traditionally use neither.
Or Perc. Black coffee could mean perc. But that really only happens in places that still think it’s the 50’s.
(No judgement. Those diners are amazing, and better coffee than fartbucks.)
No judgement. Those diners are amazing, and better coffee than fartbucks
I’ve never come across a place that uses a perc and doesnt burn their coffee, so honestly I find Starbucks better on that alone
But the shitty espresso I can pull on my mr coffee beats both by miles
But Starbucks coffee is also burned, but more because the beans are roasted too hard (which makes sense if you’re going to pour one espresso into a pint of milk, but it sucks if you drink it without milk).
The coffee isn’t burned (at least if you order espresso), the beans are, but the beans at the place using the percolator is also using cheap, burnt beans AND burning the coffee with a percolator
Neither is close to ideal coffee, but for me one is far worse
That’s an inherent flaw of the classic US percolators, where the coffee drips back down into the boiling water. It’s near impossible to not burn st least some of the coffee. Even basic filter coffee is usually better.
Espresso doesn’t refer to the strength of the coffee, only that it’s brewed under pressure.
I think cowboy coffee can also be referred to as just black. But nobody in their right minds drinks that anymore.
My in-law makes cowboy coffee in a great big kettle on the stove when all the kids arrive for the holidays and it’s actually some of the best coffee I’ve ever had. What trips me out is that he drinks crappy pod coffee the rest of the year.
Campers sometimes,
A regular coffee is 1 cream and 1 sugar, so the sentence in the first panel is a command. He’s even pointing at the guy while he says it. The nasty racist then backtracks when he notices the barrista’s cold dead stare and realizes he is large enough to snap him in half.
I’m just joking around, but really the more I think about that first panel, the more it annoys me.
edit: I wasn’t seriously considering this a racist comic, but pointing out a widely used label and grammar will make the first panel hilariously ironic to many people.
I think that’s regional, maybe to east coast US (or just NYC)? Anywhere else I’ve been in the US “regular coffee” referred to black coffee.
I’m in Western Canada. As an example, Tim Horton’s calls a regular coffee 1 cream and 1 sugar nationally.
But, I was only pointing this out because it’s funny considering the point the comic is trying to make.
Interesting, didn’t know that it was like that throughout Canada too. None of those options are available to me in the Midwest US. And agree! Definitely think it’s funny to point out, I just was giving more context because I (incorrectly) thought it was only “regular” in a small region.
“Regular” being the size.
