Let's Talk About Coffee
Do you drink coffee?
It seems like everybody does. There are cafes everywhere. At some places like Starbucks they ask you many questions about how you want your coffee made. I think it is too many questions and I try to order quickly by saying, “Coffee. Just coffee” or “a regular coffee, please.”
But they always want to know something more like what size or hot or iced.
In Vietnam you can just order coffee, “coffee”. Mostly that means you will get a black iced coffee. They won’t ask you any questions, so if you want your coffee hot, or with sugar- or cigarettes; you need to say something. Vietnamese coffee is made from robusta beans, they are very strong and bitter. In the rest of the world coffee is made from arabica beans which are sweeter and have less caffeine. I like Vietnamese coffee and will even drink it at night because caffeine has never been a problem for me and I can fall asleep easily.
What about you? Do you drink coffee? What kind of coffee do you like?
Coffee by itself is BITTER. There are many different ways to make coffee so that the taste becomes sweet or salty, or even bland if it is really bad coffee.
Vietnamese coffee is made from ROBUSTA beans.
Robusta beans are a kind of coffee bean. Because robusta is in the reading, I would say 'coffee' is right, but wrong. There is a better, more specific answer- robusta.
If you wanted to argue with me and say that coffee is also correct because robusta is a kind of coffee bean, I would be really happy. I would give you bonus points because you can explain your answer in English. That is much more important than picking the correct answer on a multiple choice quiz.
On a cafe menu this might be called BLACK coffee.
This is coffee. Just coffee. A customer might call it a REGULAR coffee.
If a customer goes to the same cafe al the time, they might say "give me THE regular" of "the usual". This means the same drink they always order. It can be anything. It might be a black coffee, it might be a cappuccino, or even a strawberry milkshake.
You did pretty well.
Let's take a little poll, and maybe grab a cup of coffee, to sharpen our focus.
https://www.opinionstage.com/page/a608869e-6e57-452f-a504-9f0101147d4a
Good job!
Let's keep going.
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