O yes. Daily lattes are common in all of the emergency departments I’ve worked in. I can think of several of my co-workers who would get one every single day.
I’m not a fan but I am a daily smoothie person. I’m a big fan of a daily Jamba Juice Berry Fulfilling or Mango Mantra with a vitamin boost. Costs as much as a latte (if not more) but is a meal replacement sometimes.
I call that time “8:15-9:30”
I know one guy who spends ~$3-4 daily on tea from a coffee shop.
I hate Starbucks. I usually make coffee at home and if I have to buy it, I usually go to a cookie store or bakery for $1 coffee. If I have to go to a premium coffee shop, I get their cheapest coffee, which generally is ~$2.
I also live in Seattle. Lots of people have daily lattes or more than daily lattes. I tend toward several/week. Definitely more than enough to justify buying the Starbucks gold card (plus the lattes bought at places that aren’t Starbucks.)
I worked in coffeeshops through most of college, so back then, yeah, I knew plenty of people who had daily espresso drinks (myself included).
Nitpick: Latte = **espresso **+ **steamed **milk. **Not **just coffee + milk. And that frou frou bullshit is not a fucking latte, MOL, anymore than Boone’s Farm is wine.
Wait, what?!? Boone’s Farm isn’t wine!?!?!?!!??
[hijack]Oh, God, I miss a good cafe con leche. Or, even better, a cortado. drool [/hijack]
I know you’re kidding, but there’s a group of people I work with who huddle around to discuss the latest news in lattes. “Did you try the new super double caramochwhateverthefuck latte?” “Oh, I’ve heard about it.” “It’s delish!”
And next she’ll be saying Cisco isn’t wine either.
Never mind the wine snobs, dear. Drink what you like - if that’s Boone’s Farm or a daily Mocha Caramel Butterfinger Latte with a shot of Hazelnut syrup and extra whipped cream (skim milk please, I’m watching my weight). The snobs will just snicker about it behind your back…
I go to cafes pretty much daily. I’m a grad student. Sitting around in cafes is an integral part of my “job”. And I need a lot of caffeine to function because I never get enough sleep. But I try to drink cheaper stuff - I like tea, and that’s cheaper than coffee.
They still sell Boone’s Farm wine? I drank enough of that to float a yacht back in the 70’s!
I like to put a little Boone’s Farm in my flask for when I’m out at Applebee’s…
I stopped drinking daily lattes, because on top of my daily 8-ball it made me really jittery.
Nah, Boones farm is slightly alcoholic sugar water.
Real wine has alcohol content of like 12-14%, Boones farm is something like 3-5%. (except Strawberry Hill which is a bit higher, but still half of regular, read REAL wine).
It seems to me that frou frou coffee drinks are part of a continuum. At one end you have the home brewed drip coffee, black, out of the Folger’s can…at the other end something served from a boutique coffee shop by someone with a title like barista made with free trade, organic, free range coffee beans from an obscure hill on an island South of Malta, pressed through an espresso machine, to which has been added soy milk, three shots of flavored syrup, Michel Cluizel chocolate, whipped cream and dinosaur shaped sprinkles. At what point do you cross to frou frou? Is it the whipped cream. Is it spending more than $2 on a cup of coffee. Is it the moment the person making it for you is someone other than yourself and calls themselves a “barista” without any irony? Or is it the point my German grandfather would have picked, the moment you add anything (including sugar or a splash of milk) to that ceramic mug other than drip coffee, black?
Not really. It’s closer to coffee than espresso. Really fucking strong coffee, but technically, true caffelatte is not made with espresso.
For me, as long as someone in line orders a drink more complicated than mine, I’m ok.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a latte.
I have a latte every morning. We make them at home with our stove-top espresso pot and carry the to work in our travel mugs. Starbucks charges almost $5 - zoiks!
That sounds disgusting. Our lattes are espresso and milk. That’s it.
I’m a frou-frou urban queer who actually has an excuse to do his job in a café and even I don’t have a daily latte. I usually have a tea or a regular coffee. I probably have a latte or something like it once every few weeks.