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El Juno ([info]eljuno) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-04-02 13:57:00


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If milk is rape, does that make this prostitution?
The question:

Is it fair/right for a customer to order what we, at my store, call a "ghetto-latte"?

The "ghetto-latte" is ordering any size Iced Americano, with no water and half ice (This lady's drink is an Iced Venti, no water, half ice, Americano). She then takes the drink and goes to the condiments bar and adds her own half and half.


Seems reasonably simple, right?

Not something you'd expect to cause, say, a three-month, several-hundred comment long flamewar which would eventually get heated enough that comments would be closed?

Apparently, none of us know Starbucks that well.


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[info]eilan
2007-04-02 06:47 pm UTC (link)
Some places are now offering bottled still and bubbly bottled for about twice what you'd pay for the same bottle of Perrier/Evian/whatever in a store.

Well, that's, ergh, normal, isn't it? At least in all restaurants I've been.

I suppose you could get tap water here if you asked nicely, but would receive very strange looks. Because if you order water, you get bottled water. And that costs you something like 2+€ a glass.

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[info]shaysdays
2007-04-02 06:55 pm UTC (link)
suppose you could get tap water here if you asked nicely, but would receive very strange looks.

Yes- that was a bit of a shock to me when I ordered water for the first time in Germany and a HUGE bottle of Perrier came out. With my (very) limited German, and my (fluent) husband in the bathroom, I kept trying to explain I just wanted a glass of water to go with my wine, I was thirsty. The waiter kept trying to tell me what I guess were different bottled water names. And I'd come back with, "Glas ob Wasser? Mit der Wein? Durstig? Um... Wasser Ublich?*" Poor guy.

It was a nice little moment of farce resolved by my dearest coming back and explaining things to me (and the waiter) and we were all happy and I felt silly.

*Yes, that is seriously about the limit of my German after simeple conversational things like How are you, Where is the bathroom, please, and the monkey is riding a bicycle. But I try!

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[info]ladysorka
2007-04-02 11:40 pm UTC (link)
As someone who hates anything that bubbles, I hate trying to order a beverage in Europe.

No, I want flat water. WATER. Out of the bloody tap. God damnit.

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[info]brown_betty
2007-04-04 03:01 am UTC (link)
hah! My brother can now say "uncarbonated water" in a half dozen languages. I didn't realize it was necessary vocabulary.

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[info]damien
2007-04-04 03:32 am UTC (link)
*pets you* I feel your pain and LOATHE bubbly stuff. But if you say 'Stilles Wasser', you'll probably get a bottle of uncarbonated mineral water. If you say 'Lietungs Wasster', then you get tap water.

...Well, in Germany or Austria, anyway. *lived in Austria*

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