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Barista is a professional coffee maker是咖啡师. You actually need to get qualified for that.
Oh, yeah. You can get qualifications in being a barista. They even have competitions for barista art. Kind of when they make the really nice patterns, pictures…
Latte art.
Yeah, the latte art.
The latte art咖啡拉花的那个东西. Yeah. But back to espresso, I remember because I went to Italy so many times. It's very interesting to see Italians on their way to work in the morning. And then they would pop into a café, but they would never sit down. They would just pay at the bar at the counter, and then just get an espresso and drink it, or a double espresso.
Well, actually, vice versa. They'll order a drink, first drink it, then they pay.
Oh, okay.
But the reason for that is that in Italian cafés, if you sit down, the coffee is more expensive.
Yeah. I’m always the dumb-dumb.
It's a good way of saving money. If you just want a quick coffee in Italy, you have to stand at the bar. It's a bit cheaper. It's only maybe like a Euro or just slightly more than a Euro. And then you can just drink your coffee and off you go.
Yeah, but can't you just go like, do it like in Starbucks, and just order one to go and just…
Oh,no no no no no no no…
Why?
Coffee on the go is just not done in Italy.
Okay.
It's actually called an American. If you order a coffee to go, then it's pretty much saying I am a tourist.
Wow. They look at me, they know I’m a tourist, so…
Well, yeah, true.
But that's the thing what we would consider as a regular coffee in Britain or in America is called an Americano.
Americano is basically just black coffee with…
It's espresso.
With water.
Water down with hot water. The reason why it's called an Americano is that when the Americans during the World War II went to Italy, they couldn't drink the local coffee cause it was too strong. So what they did was they added hot water to it and that became an Americano.
Oh, I could imagine the local Italian barista would just be like you're a Yankee, you're an American. That's what you guys would order. So Americano, here’s for you Americans.
Exactly.
Interesting. 所以为什么叫美式. So this is Italy.
Oh, one thing I do want to mention, it's... I used to go to Italy in hot summers. So sometimes I would want to drink like an ice coffee, although I don't really drink coffee. But so when I’m thinking about ice coffee, I was really thinking about like an ice latte or an iced cappuccino. But I just order iced coffee and it turns out just like a very sweetened espresso.
Yeah, exactly.
I love ices espresso, and I love cold coffee as well.
Okay, so that's a little bit about Italians. I think there's also very strong coffee culture in Arabic countries.