If I am in the wrong subreddit, whoops, sorry, and please lemme know where I would get a better answer for this.

So, small bit of back story.

Used to work for Pret a Manger in the UK as a barista trainer, way back in the 90’s. Made coffee working for multiple Italians (Franco was the maddest nutter of a crazy bunch) and some Portuguese and Greeks too. Learnt to make Arabic style coffee (never could learn to like the cardamom in it.) Thing is, I know, love and respect coffee.

On to the question, the one that shall most likely have a river of flame bequeathed upon my head. Why in the names of Java, Colombia and Madagascar do you insist on calling a flat white a cappuccino in north America. Is going 1+1+1 that hard? Really, it is one part espresso, one part steamed milk, one part frothed milk. It is NOT (no matter what any large “coffee shop” chain wants to tell you) a single or double shot of espresso with 6 parts steamed milk and a 1/235619397834010936541648954th of foamed milk. Heathen swine!!!11!1!!11!!!eleven!!

It’s almost as if the entire area is addicted to caffeine, and cannot admit that’s what they really want. No, they want coffee. The only problem? A decaf double caramel shot soy liquid topped sugar laced monstrosity is really, really not a latte.

Just make up a new name for the drink. Call it a Mellitus mix if you want. Just don’t call it a latte.

And a flat white? Perfectly good coffee, if that is what you want. But if you know HOW to enjoy a cappuccino (hint, try to get equal parts foam, milk and coffee in your mouth) it is entirely not what you are looking for.

So please. PLEASE, just start making cappuccinos and lattes the real way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/coffeestations/comments/790tat/dear_north_america_names_have_meaning/