{"id":216,"date":"2013-02-21T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T14:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2013-02-21T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:45:11","slug":"barista-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/barista-chatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Barista chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Schott over at the New York Times recently published a really fun styled list of esoteric barista jargon.<\/p>\n<p>Link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/02\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/ben-schott-java-jive-coffee-vocabulary.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee_images\/\/10schott-java-jive-phone-custom2-v2-e1361492857718.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-217\" alt=\"10schott-java-jive-phone-custom2-v2\" src=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee_images\/\/10schott-java-jive-phone-custom2-v2-e1361492857718.png\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Check the honey<\/strong> &#8211; Indicates an attractive customer in line. (&#8220;Can you check the honey?&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Facemelter<\/strong> &#8211; A superthink ristretto, extracted for more than 30 seconds, less than one ounce<\/li>\n<li><strong>Juicers<\/strong> &#8211; Customers who sit all day at their computers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phonies<\/strong> &#8211; Customers who order while on their cellphones<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sipsters<\/strong> &#8211; Hipsters who insist on porcelain rather than to-go cups (Guilty!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ghetto Latte<\/strong> &#8211; When a customer orders an espresso over ice in a large cup and then fills the cup with milk at the condiment bar to save money<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sorority Special<\/strong> &#8211; A skim milk latte with sugar-free vanilla syrup<\/li>\n<li><strong>Churchill<\/strong> &#8211; A classy tipper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And also in the baristas-saying-not-so-nice things-behind-people&#8217;s-backs department, a coffee shop worker in Seattle (we call it &#8220;The West Side&#8221; here) was fired last week when it was discovered he was the writer behind <a href=\"http:\/\/bitterbarista.com\/content\/\">The Bitter Barista <\/a>blog\/twitter feed. Fortunately, he immediately got several job offers at other shops the following day. Some of his rants are pretty funny. (Language warning!)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You need 3 airpots of coffee for a meeting? You need it immediately? Or you\u2019ll be late? Lucky for you, I\u2019m a wizard!<\/p>\n<p>No ma\u2019am, we do not serve soy eggnog. We don\u2019t serve unicorn milk either.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let that 3-foot tall glass wall between you and the pastries stop you. Climb over it and try to touch as many things as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Please pour your coffee into the trash can so it can ruin my day later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Schott over at the New York Times recently published a really fun styled list of esoteric barista jargon. Link here. A few of my favorites: Check the honey &#8211; Indicates an attractive customer in line. (&#8220;Can you check the honey?&#8221;) Facemelter &#8211; A superthink ristretto, extracted for more than 30 seconds, less than one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}