Silly little pleasures
I’m having my second cup of coffee today, or cuppa joe?! Had one this morning and now that I’ve just finished lunch, I’m gonna sip my coffee for a while.
I don’t remember when I started drinking coffee. It wasn’t before my 16-17 anyway. I like it in different ways, depending on mood and/or time of the day. When I’m eating out, I only take the espresso. I mean the *real* espresso, which is 2 sips at the most. And I like it with or without sugar. Most of the times I take it black, so I can taste how good is the brand of coffee they use. My grand father always took it black, but that was because he had diabetes. My father (his son-in-law) started taking black coffee after they met, “it tastes better indeed”. My science professor at high school also used to take it black, “the only way to taste the real taste of coffee”. I suppose she still takes it black now.
Anyway, I basically only put sugar in the “morning coffee” at home, which is brewed the American way: a *lot* more to drink.
So, today I had an idea. Given that I occasionally add just a little milk to my American coffee and I was out of fresh milk *and* there was a bottle of sugar-free spray cream in the fridge (odd thing here), why not trying that?! I spray some cream on the coffee, it melts and it does look yummy. I taste it. Holy skunk, tastes awful! This cream is really sugar-free! I had to add a little sugar, couldn’t help it.
Okay, it *is* silly to even think of trading sugar with (apparently sugar-free) cream, but well, my Italian friends already give me the yer-a-wacko look when I have a “long/large coffee” (how we call the American coffee). So, no big deal…
Then, as the cream was melting, I suddenly had the mental image of that woman who was right before me at Starbucks at the Minneapolis Airport a few years ago. She had ordered a tank of some coconut cream vanilla coffee or something… It was huge and the bare name of it almost gave me a diabetic coma. It all made me feel less guilty for my little coffee pleasure today.
Now, about Starbucks and Minneapolis Airport, that’s another funny story… I do think some of you have already heard of that adventure. Ever seen the film “The Terminal”, with Tom Hanks?
Stay tuned…
