i take my coffee black-no-sugar, which i was recently informed is not the cultural default and that you should always assume somebody wants milk unless informed otherwise. news to me.
Really? Wow. I only recently learned that Americans aren't supposed to take milk in tea, and now... ...there are some crazy levels of beverage custom going on here.
Americans aren't supposed to take tea at all. No taxation without representation, remember? (Actually, there are some fascinating cultural implications for coffee versus tea -- coffee is strong, American, New World, and tea is weak, English, Old World -- it's very much a remnant of the days when Britannia ruled the waves and thought it could suck India dry -- and don't forget that coffeehouses rather than alehouses made possible the Enlightenment -- it's much easier to think up notions like individualism and liberty and whatnot when you're fired up on caffeine rather than vomiting from mushy alcoholic brew.
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kleenexwoman) wrote2008-02-17 05:19 pm
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...there are some crazy levels of beverage custom going on here.
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