What should we talk about when we are sitting in a cafe?

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When you bring friends to a frequented cafe, lazy afternoons or quiet evenings, elegant and comfortable environment, clear and pleasant music, what else can you talk about besides gossip and work?

Is it relatively speechless, or do you have a chat?

Don't panic, the editor teaches you to cut in from coffee, talk about three mountains and five mountains, all over the world, and don't worry about not finding a topic anymore!

Topic 1: what to drink?

What would you like to drink today, American, latte, mocha, macchiato, or cappuccino?

Here we go. It's time to show how familiar you are with coffee.

One minute to introduce the types of espresso:

Topic 2: what flavor do you like? Recommend one for you?

For people who like sweet, it is recommended to have "sugar" in their names, such as "caramel macchiato" and "toffee latte". It doesn't matter if there is no "sugar". There is chocolate sauce and cream in "mocha", which is sweet and good-looking enough to kill girls.

If you are not afraid of bitterness, you might as well try "American coffee". The most convenient product to directly show the strength of a coffee shop is American. Do not want to drink fast coffee, drink "latte", worried that the latte is too big to drink, change cappuccino, want coffee light, order "Flat White" …...

Scared? You don't want coffee today?

……

Then order a cup of scented tea.

Topic 3: want to drink something special

Drink something special today.

In addition to daily coffee such as latte, American style and mocha, there are many fine (strange) (weird) coffee to ponder. Such as royal, Irish, cat shit. There are many topics to talk about behind this.

Royal Coffee

Royal Coffee, it is said, has something to do with Napoleon the French Emperor.

Short story:

According to legend, after his defeat in 1815, Napoleon was imprisoned on St. Helena Island in the Atlantic Ocean, where he could no longer drink wine every day, and coffee became almost the only consolation. There is a Napoleon quotation, "Coffee is the only beautiful thing in St. Helena", although it is not his original words, it has been handed down to this day.

There is also a saying that Napoleon, who was imprisoned and was dying in 1821, had tears in his eyes and only asked for another spoonful of coffee. The rumor does not know whether it is true or not, but it is talked about by later generations.

In the taste of royal coffee, there is Napoleon's Rong Ma Guang, but also a little romantic, a little gorgeous, a little sad. The barista will set up a small spoon on the coffee cup, put the top sugar in the spoon, wet it with the right amount of brandy, and finally light it. The burning brandy gradually dissolves the sugar cube and can be drunk when the sugar drops slowly into the coffee.

It is said that Royal Coffee does not add sugar at first and uses brandy directly. However, after the popularity of the palace, in order to cater to the taste of women in the palace, add sugar to the brandy and inject a hint of sweetness into the coffee.

Irish coffee

In Irish coffee, there is a love story.

An airport bartender fell in love with a beautiful stewardess, who loved coffee but not good wine. in order to make the stewardess drink the wine she was good at, the bartender found a way to blend coffee with whisky and named it "Irish Coffee" and added it to menu.

Until one day, the stewardess ordered this cup of Irish coffee. The bartender made her Irish coffee for the first time and burst into tears with excitement. Afraid of being seen by her, he wiped away his tears with his fingers and secretly drew a circle around the mouth of the Irish coffee cup with tears.

The taste of the first sip of Irish coffee, with the taste of fermentation after missing has been suppressed for a long time.

The stewardess was the first guest to taste Irish coffee. She liked this coffee very much, ordered it every time she came, and quickly became acquainted with the bartender. But in the end, the stewardess did not fall in love with the bartender. Until the stewardess left, she didn't know that the Irish coffee was made only for her by the bartender.

The last time they met, the stewardess still ordered Irish coffee and said goodbye to the bartender, who turned to make coffee for her last time and asked, "Want some tear drops?" (teardrop? ) "

Would you like wine or coffee, please?

Coffee.

What kind of coffee would you like?

-Irish coffee.

-would you like to add tears?

-Huh? What?

Topic 4: Hey, have you ever had Kopi Luwak?

Of course it's not for you to show off.

When you ask this question, what else can you say except to say "good mouth"?

Kopi Luwak, commonly known as Kopi Luwak. Cat droppings are the droppings of an Indonesian civet called the coconut cat.

Coconut cat

The coconut cat is a nocturnal omnivore. After the coffee fruit is eaten by it, it cannot be digested, but is excreted directly. The coffee beans, originally a novelty to Dutch landowners who run plantations in Indonesian colonies, were introduced to the West by British businessmen in the early 1990s.

Because wild coconut cats are rare and feces are not easy to collect, Kopi Luwak production is so low that at first it is just coffee diehards trying to drink it new. it was even ridiculed by the scientific community (the discovery of the coffee bean was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in 1995).

However, at the beginning of the 21st century, Kopi Luwak has suddenly become the focus of mass media attention: appearing on the highly watched "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (an American talk show) and becoming an indispensable part of the ultimate experience of life in the movie "The Bucket List". Fuelled by the Internet, Kopi Luwak has changed from word of mouth coffee gold to the object of commercial hype. In New York, a cup of Kopi Luwak is priced at $100, while the price of coffee beans at $50 a pound in Indonesia has more than quintupled.

As a matter of fact, Indonesia, the country of origin, has long abandoned its original ecological collection, keeping coconut cats in cages and rationing coffee fruits. As a result of this industrial production, Kopi Luwak's output is no longer the advertised 500kg per year, and Indonesia's Southeast Asian neighbors (and even China) have also begun to join in production. Thailand also followed suit with the invention of shit-like coffee.

This practice not only changes the flavor of coffee, but also produces adulterated coffee beans that are blended on demand. To make matters worse, coconut cats, who are timid by nature and love to act alone, are psychologically under great pressure to attack each other and harm themselves after being locked up with their own kind. The World Society for the Protection of Animals has been calling for an end to this barbaric method of animal production in recent years, and last year UTZ, a coffee certification association, reached an agreement with major shareholders of the Indonesian coffee industry to abolish animal captivity in the coffee industry.

In this way, popping the bubble of cat poop coffee is a good thing. Not to mention, more than one food columnist has written that cat poop coffee tastes just fine.

Topic 5: Do you like coffee? A lot of famous people drink it too.

It is said that in many European countries, people love to drink at first, and alcoholism has almost become a social problem. As coffee became known to be healthier and cheaper, coffee houses grew and replaced pubs as the first choice for dating.

Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, drank a gallon of coffee every day.

Beethoven

The German composer and musician Beethoven drank a cup of coffee made by grinding 60 coffee beans every morning and insisted on counting 60 coffee beans himself.

Bach

Bach wrote the musical Coffee Cantata (Coffee cantata) for his beloved drink, in which the father urged his daughter to give up her coffee hobby in order to find a good husband, and the daughter insisted on finding another person who agreed to let her have coffee.

Voltaire

If coffee is poison, it is chronic.

Voltaire, a famous writer, is said to have drunk 40-50 cups of coffee a day, even if it was a mixture of coffee and chocolate. Although his doctor had warned him that one day coffee would kill him, Voltaire lived to be in his eighties.

Topic 6: Coffee in hand, talk about elegance...

music

The famous baroque musician Bach is also a coffee addict. He once wrote a musical skit called Coffee Cantata in 1732. At that time, drinking coffee became popular in Vienna, but the price was not cheap, so drinking coffee was demonized into a bad habit to some extent, and families of ordinary citizens restricted their young people from drinking coffee. This short play was inspired by Bach.

Painting

Van Gogh's "Night Cafe", Van Gogh described the night cafe as "a place of madness, destruction and crime." maybe that's why Van Gogh finally threw the cup of vermouth at Gauguin, and Gauguin never went to the cafe again. Half a month later, Van Gogh also left the cafe.

Finally, Van Gogh cut off one of his ears and finally finished his portrait. After leaving a will to his guardian brother, he committed suicide. He wrote in his will: "I believe that after my death, I will hold an exhibition of my paintings in a cafe." In 1996, 106 years after his death, a two-month exhibition of Van Gogh paintings was held at the Ravu Cafe where he committed suicide.

Film

The title of the film is "Taipei Exchanges", and the 36th story is its translated title. Directed by Xiao Yaquan, starring Gui Lun mg, Zhang Han and Zhong Xiaojie.

It tells the story of a pair of sisters who run a "Duoer Coffee". Due to an accident, they began to barter. The customers who come and go in the coffee shop bring a lot of stories to the coffee shop.

This is a story about the inner feelings of urbanites, communication, search and interpretation of the sublimation of their own and other people's feelings. The 36th story is actually a very simple story, about the dream, about the value in the heart.

Books

The healing novel "before the Coffee is Cold" is the book that cries four times when reading.

The novel describes a coffee shop that takes people back to the past, as well as four touching stories that take place in the store. It is reported that "Coffee before it is Cold" was published in Japan less than a year, that is, sales of 500000 copies. In the same year, the novel was among the top 10 Japanese "Honya Awards" with a high number of votes, and was well received by readers.

Although the setting of "time travel" is used, compared with most novels with the theme of "time travel", "before Coffee is Cold" is more unique and has more practical significance. In the book, if people want to go back to the past, they must abide by all kinds of rules, and the first of these rules is that "going back to the past, no matter how hard you try, can't change what has happened." Time to go back to the past is also limited: "only from the time the coffee is poured into the cup until the cup of coffee is completely cold."

You see, as long as you talk about "coffee", the topics will naturally go on, even if the other person is a person who knows nothing about coffee and has no interest in coffee, as long as you usually pay more attention to reading, pay more attention to things around you, and play less "pesticides." even strangers can chat in a cafe.

Last but not least, this is also a tutorial for lone wolf baristas! Don't just talk about your coffee every time you take your friends to a restaurant. It's not that coffee lovers really don't understand your gold cup extraction and flavor wheel!