About 20 years ago I was on a flight to Cairo that had a short stopover at Rome airport. In those days my drink of choice was a bucket of latte from Starbucks or Costa and having never been to Italy before, this 90 minutes on Italian concrete was a chance to have a real Italian latte.
Real coffee from the land of coffee drinkers.
I had a few euros in my pocket and having landed in Rome I scouted the terminal for the best looking cafe. A row of finely dressed, coffee drinking Italians were stood at the bar I had selected and as I queued I felt the anticipation growing.
Real coffee in the land of coffee drinkers.
I don’t speak Italian but as the smooth looking bar tender looked at me for my order I said in my best Anglo Italian ‘Un Latte Per Favore’. He looked at me and repeated back to me what I said. I nodded and repeated back to him. Anticipation was now at fever pitch.
30 seconds later I was stood at the bar, next to many finely dressed, coffee drinking Italians nursing a glass of cold milk.
Caffè latte! It’s Caffè latte!
One important word made all the difference and I missed it!
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P.S. I now drink a small Americano without milk which, as I discovered after a long lunch in Paris a few years ago, is also a rather strong cocktail. But that’s another story.
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