Ask for coffee by slang, java, Juan Valdez’s best, battery acid, bean juice, café, brew, joe, high octane, mojo, mud, rocket fuel, tar, or other languages, Arabic: kahioa or ahua, Belarusian: kava, Chinese (Cantonese): ga feh or (Mandarin): kafei, Creole: kafe,, Czech: kava, French: café,
German: der Kaffee, Hawaiian: kope, Hebrew: ka-feh, Japanese: koohii, Polish: kawa, Spanish: el café, Yiddish: kave to name a few. (http://coffeetea.about.com/)
Ask for your coffee served with: cream, milk, half-and-half, sugar, sugar subsititue, honey, cinnamon, allspice, or nutmeg, green cardamom pods (fresh/roasted) ground in before brewing, cocoa or chocolate syrup, flavored syrups, most commonly hazelnut, vanilla, caramel, or amaretto, Irish whiskey or chocolate liqueur. (Wiki)
It is a morning ritual for over half of the adult population of the United States. I’ll have a light hazelnut latte, please. How about you?
My Dad, Clarence the Coffee man always had just Coffee, with one tea spoon of sugar. Haha. And his my said he had coffee running through his veins. Lol. Good stuff Meredith.
By: Bruce lambert on July 14, 2012
at 9:08 pm
Too much time on ships: coffee, black.
By: jim jewell on July 15, 2012
at 12:42 am
I read all your new poems. I love it. It really speaks to my creative side. There is a lot of material here. I especially related to capturing readers in such an overloaded cyber world. Young people aren’t even interested unless some sort of advance technology is involved. Video, gaming, something.
By: Wesley on July 15, 2012
at 12:26 pm