Worst coffee award goes to: Dunkin' Donuts

"Can I have a Large Cafe Au Lait?"

"You mean a Venti Misto?"

"When the fuck did we get to Italy? See that BIIIIIG cup over there? Fill it up half way with coffee and then fill the other half up with steamed milk. Whatever you want to call it, go ahead."

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A cafe au lait is a cafe au lait. If I walked into the local coffe shop and ordered a misto, they'd look at me with a quizzical expression and say "Excuse me? What's in it, and we'll try to make it for you." The same results would not happen with use of the term "cafe au lait."

Don't over-brand shit by coopting a relatively obscure term for something that is called the same thing everywhere else in America.

Its like a person who has visited a foreign country and suddenly starts calling things "flats" or "pubs" instead of "apartments" or "bars."

LAMEASHELL

I will believe you that he was being a cunt, but you could be wrong, too.

(xpost: I don't know your life but there's a pretty big gulf between an "apartment" and a "bar". Hee.)

A cafe au lait. Thanks. Here's your money.

In some places this drink would be called "cafe con leche" I think.

xpost Dan you are standing in a very trecherous position calling out other people for ineffectual rants! I mean I might as well start calling out the Starbucks dude for being an overcorrective, smug douche immediately after posting corrections to Spanish spellings on the St. Patrick's thread!!!!!!!!!

For shame, sir; FOR SHAME.

(xpost: Ally, the complete and utter tenuousness of my rhetorical stance is what is making this fun! It's like the salt thread of March.)

Anyway I lived out west also and have never heard of this abomination but I never really frequented Starbucks til I moved back east and lived pretty much next door or above multiple Starbucks. Still it doesn't make sense, "West Coast" cafe au lait and "East Cost" cafe au lait. It's like Hellman's v Best Foods, wtf they're the same goddamn thing.

Cafe Au Lait, bitches. REPRESENT!!!! (throws oddly contorted hand gesture at computer screen)

xpost Scott oh my god.

A quick Google on "starbucks misto" turns up a lot of references which indicates that it is indeed the preferred Starbucks terminology - and some people who dispute that it is really the same drink as a cafe au lait.

-- Dan ("Come, Muffy; These Cads Don't DESERVE Our Custom!") Perry (djperry@gmail.com), March 14th, 2006.

That wasn't me!!!

I live in Queens and most of the coffee ships around me became brooklynified already (considering I moved here from wburg). Even in south american where I live part time, a lot of places are getting complicated with their coffee.

just not in financial districts, rich neighborhoods or around highly touristy areas

you just described 92% of manhattan.

sure whats cheap

well, that's sad

i've lived in a major american city my whole life and i have usually found $1 coffee from a donut shop or deli, which are sometimes run by immigrant families

obviously, most cities do not operate like manhattan

Yeah, I don't like hot coffee so that's my thing re: the anthora/deli types of coffee. I also typically don't buy coffee out anyway unless I want to go for a walk during work or am traveling. Any dedicated coffee shop, and ice coffee black can be $4-$6 for a relatively small size.

I kind of feel like prices are similar in all coastal US cities, Philly, London etc.

it depends on the type of coffee you're talking about and the type of establishment that's serving it

there are cheaper options than dunkin' donuts, though, which is what you initially said you opted for

for ice coffee dunkin is cheap and prevalent and fast. I remember once being in montreal and making a plan to go to this supposedly amazing coffee shop a little out of our way. We finally made it there and realized they used the same coffee brand that had a shop in our neighborhood back home.

I probably have the american problem of wanting a big gulp size of coffee too.

Ordered the “Dunkin midnight” and it’s the strongest coffee I’ve had in years

1/3 of the cup is milk and it’s still a dark brown color overall

Jealous. Was excited they opened one here but they don't use the same coffee.