Jessica in Rome

One Used Bottle and a Dixie Cup

Remember walking into a Starbucks and ordering that BIG 20 oz. coffee to go in a large paper cup with a sleeve? Here I present take-away coffee: Italian style.

Ingredients needed: a shot espresso, steamed milk, and one USED juice bottle.

Posted in Crazy Italy, My Neighborhood | 6 Comments

Jul 27th, 2007

6 Responses to “One Used Bottle and a Dixie Cup”

on 27 Jul 2007 at 2:37 am1Roam 2 Rome

Jessica… I take it there are no Starbucks around there, are there?

Well, Italians have good coffee (just in smaller doses) so we should be okay … I think
on 27 Jul 2007 at 10:55 am2Brian

If you bought it that way, that’s a little gross. I’ve seen nifty portable coffee makers that you plug into the wall and it spits out a thimble’s worth of coffee. How it tastes, I don’t know, but I’d wager that it’s on par with storing it in an used juice bottle.
on 27 Jul 2007 at 11:32 am3Jessica

From what noticed it is a common practice in bars as a way of making cappuccino’s to go. The bottle is used but it’s been washed. I still prefer paper though, that’s just me.
on 27 Jul 2007 at 8:32 pm4Brian

That’s everybody, Jess. If someone gave me a cappuccino in a rinsed off beer bottle, I’d be heading for the door faster than Michael Moore at a GOP convention.
on 27 Jul 2007 at 10:25 pm5Jessica

HAHA I love the MM reference. For the record it’s a juice bottle, but yeah, it is gross though. But then again I did drink the cappuccino and lived to blog about it.
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