Or maybe a MooLatte, that miscegenous mixture of white, white milk and black, black coffee.
Which applies to everyone from Jerusalem to Vladivostok.
Dunno. Our office Coffee Maven is black.
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They do in Texas, at least at where I work.
Coffee comes from Ethiopia, whence it was spread throughout the world by Arab traders. Many, many Ethiopians drink coffee. Ethiopians, in case you’ve never met one, are black.
Oh, that’s what I like about it!
I am black. I’ve been drinking coffee since I was a toddler (seriously - it was the 70s, nobody thought a thing about giving it to me). And I have very hairy legs. You do the math.
How about “Southeast Asian”, which pretty much excludes the Middle East and Russia?
I knew a guy who was installing some communications equipment at the Ethiopian Embassy in London. He told me that the coffee they gave him there was the best he had ever tasted.
My black coworker loves his cup of coffee so much that he refers to it as his wife.
Which leads to some amusing situations–like if I am going out, and I ask if he wants anything, and he says “get me a wife,”–and a customer is standing right there.
I think “Southeast Asia” is used to refer specifically to countries like Vietnam and Thailand. I would never think of a Korean as “Southeast Asian.”
That also excludes northern China, Japan, and Korea.
Try East Asian. Or Far Eastern. Or fuck it and say Oriental.
I bet a lot of people don’t know that they’re filling out the censes wrong.
Does this mean that I’m secretly black?
Yes.
Heh. My sample group has another, more significant identifying factor- they are alcoholics! So they drink coffee like it was gonna be illegal tomorrow.
Why don’t they switch to Kahlúa and save time. They may want to have some Irish Cream with that.
Call me DUMB, but … why make such a blanket generalization? Of course there are black people who do drink coffee and what’s more, they enjoy drinking it. Some people drink coffee, some people don’t. Some like it, some don’t. I don’t think it has anything to do with race or socio-economic status. I should add, though, that sociology was NOT my favorite class in college.
I am not a black person, but I’ve been drinking coffee since I was 11 or so. I usually drink it with cream and sugar, although the best tasting cup of coffee I ever had was a cup from made freshly ground, freshly brewed beans and I had that straight up - black.
I worked at a coffee shop that was frequented by mostly Ethiopians (men, usually) and I got many friendly lectures about coffee and its origins. I also learned a lot about religion, Ethiopian orthodox Christianity specifically, but we’d also get a rush at nightfall during Ramadan. And one guy told me all about the intricate mechanisms of heterosexual sex. Nice people. Except the last guy, he was a weirdo.
Am I the ONLY one who read KayElCee’s link above that demonstrated that black people do, in fact, drink less coffee than whites? Contrary to what some want to believe, coffee drinking does seem to have something to do with race. What that means, I dunno, but to ignore the research in favor of “I saw a black person drink coffee” seems pretty silly to me.
KayElCee’s cite only states that blacks drink less coffee than whites. It doesn’t quantify HOW much less, nor whether or not this pattern fits across all socioeconomic and geographic groups. I’m betting that certain subgroups of black Americans (college-educated, professional, urban-types) drink coffee at rates similar to their white counterparts, based on my personal observations. Would it be silly to offer that as a hypothesis?
It can’t be any sillier than the OP, at any rate. I keep telling myself one of these days I’m going to post a thread like “Why don’t white people drink orange soda?” but I keep forgetting to.
The real question is, how many black people like their coffee black?