{"id":213,"date":"2011-07-24T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonerfromafar.wordpress.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2016-07-24T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T11:16:10","slug":"coffee-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alondonerfromafar.co.uk\/coffee-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee, Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coffee or tea?<\/p>\n

Most people living abroad would associate Brits with tea.\u00a0We have all seen those lovely china cups and trays of digestives and cakes in Upstairs and Downstairs<\/em> or Agatha Christie\u00b4s Poirot<\/em> TV series. Coffee would only be served sometimes, usually\u00a0to visually refer to\u00a0modern times or\u00a0to the well-off, middle\/ professional\u00a0class characters in that episode (as set up in the first half 20th century).<\/p>\n

Tea is to UK what coffee is\u00a0to other countries – to some extent, that is. Things have actually\u00a0\u00a0changed quite a bit\u00a0over the last 10 years. Three aspects have\u00a0caught my eye\u00a0since the first day: coffee shops, types of coffes available here and how people in UK actually have their\u00a0coffee.\"Coffee!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When I first arrived, I still had coffee and tea. It took me quite a bit of research to find a good coffee shop. Chains were everywhere, but\u00a0they tend to lack\u00a0that cosy atmosphere. Most of the coffee shops<\/strong> that I\u00b4d find would be run by people from countries such as Iran or Italy.\u00a0Some of them would refreshingly look like\u00a0a traditional coffee shop back at home, as opposed to the sofa\u00a0style as seen\u00a0in\u00a0TV series\u00a0Friends<\/em>. These days, I have seen\u00a0more coffee shops or \u00b4greasy spoon\u00b4 cafes\u00a0serving half-decent coffee. Global economy<\/a>, maybe?<\/p>\n

Another explanation might be the huge amounts of foreigners living in London. 14 million counting the un-registered foreigners. After some two or three years, I started to notice that the customer base\u00a0in coffee shops was mixed. People from older generations and other countries sharing the same store with the\u00a0younger generation, many of them British young professionals.<\/p>\n

It seems that alongside an interest in foreign cuisines, there is\u00a0this interest in coffee. Travellers have probably helped to\u00a0raise\u00a0an interest in quality coffee and which is served in so many different and fun ways. I had never thought about the many types of coffee available<\/strong>! Over 10 years ago, only white, black and American coffee were\u00a0widely available, whereas I have lately found\u00a0here many of the coffees shown in this infographic (courtesy of\u00a0CharmingItaly.com<\/a>)\u00a0and that\u00a0are not so widely available back at home. They are also so pricey, that instant coffee used to be a close ally. Have you ever tried doppio<\/em>?<\/p>\n

\"Share<\/p>\n

The way\u00a0people have their coffee<\/strong> in London\/ UK\u00a0keeps startling me. At work, it\u00a0looks like\u00a0they have it\u00a0in the same way as\u00a0tea, that is, big mug with little o no milk at all.\u00a0How can they cope with so much cafeine everyday? Coffee tends to be stronger than tea. I don\u00b4t think they\u00a0care, though. Coffee in offices tends to be quite weak anyway.<\/p>\n

These days, I have this little dilemma: tea\u00a0or coffee\u00a0vs herbal tea… I certainly miss the taste of the black liquid mixed with some milk…<\/p>\n

What kind of coffee would you like to try?<\/p>\n

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