Comments on: Another office, another view http://www.logicmatters.net/2010/02/another-office-another-view/ Logic, enthusiasms, sceptical thoughts, and a little LaTeX geekery Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:23:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.logicmatters.net/2010/02/another-office-another-view/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 Anonymous Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:35:01 +0000 http://www.logicmatters.net/?p=955#comment-1350 Every time I ask for a cappuccino in Britain, the barman heats the milk until it reaches the temperature of the lava. This is no coincidence: they all check their little thermometer, to make sure they keep heating the milk until it is so hot that you can barely hold your cup - let alone drink what's in it - for at least 15 minutes. The lava milk is then added to a coffee of very dubious quality, for an even more dubious result. That's part of life. In Britain. But things can get worse. In France, for instance, a cappuccino is a coffee with cream. Yet a coffee with cream isn't a cappuccino, is it? Every time I ask for a cappuccino in Britain, the barman heats the milk until it reaches the temperature of the lava. This is no coincidence: they all check their little thermometer, to make sure they keep heating the milk until it is so hot that you can barely hold your cup – let alone drink what’s in it – for at least 15 minutes. The lava milk is then added to a coffee of very dubious quality, for an even more dubious result. That’s part of life. In Britain.

But things can get worse. In France, for instance, a cappuccino is a coffee with cream. Yet a coffee with cream isn’t a cappuccino, is it?

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