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Here's to Italy and Britain.BY: Alessandro Saetta Vinci | Category: Entertainment | Submitted: 2011-10-15 09:05:51
I'd like to make it absolutely clear from the very start that even though I have about 30 per day, I don't like coffee. I don't like cappuccino, Frappuccino, double espresso, coffee with milk, it's all nonsense to me and precisely because I'm Italian, hence an expert in everything, I know for a fact the there's only one type of coffee that makes sense and that's the espresso. Black, no sugar added. That's how it's done. Coffee it's not something you drink for fun or company, you don't indulge in it, the idea of meeting someone for a coffee it's just absurd because there's only one reason why you should have one. It boosts you. You drink one, get energy, get back to work or whatever it is you were doing. You don't enjoy it or sip it, you just drain it. God invented beer for everything else. So, obviously, I don't like Starbucks. I understand its international and symbolic value, I know it employs many people and I know it's cool to have one in your local mall, but it's plainly just a place where you meet people for the sake of spending time with them, if you go there to have decent cookies or decent drinks you're either American or completely bonkers. Everything you might order from the "beverage" menu tastes like boiled water and everything you may get to eat tastes like it has been made several ages ago. By a Swiss. On a recent trip to England, though, I visited Bristol and because Bristol is essentially a big shopping mall I spent nearly an entire day sipping something that someone sold me as tea inside Cabot Circus. Because I'm an idiot and because what I really missed was a good sparkling wine from home, I decided to go for the "grande" black tea. Then, out of insanity I added sugar, cane sugar, a bit of milk, cinnamon and chocolate sprinkles. It was, without any shadow of doubt, the foulest thing I've ever tasted, but because it was horrid and it took me forever to empty the cup I had at least the chance to think about Bristol and south England in general terms. Rationally speaking, why do people, including me, insist on going to the South of England and London? The weather is horrible, the food is terrible, there's nothing else to do but shopping and even though the British are very nice people your whole journey will be ruined by the idiotic British police attitude to terrorism. The Brits are great but, just like the Italians, they have this alarming tendency to follow Americans. For the love of God we Europeans invented Americans! Why do we need to follow them? Why am I not free to throw away a napkin because I can't find a bin in a 5 mile radius? Why do I have to be videotaped with security cameras even when I go to the public toilets? Why can't we just call Mr Obama man and say "hey friend, we'ore off. we're not really sure why we're fighting this war, anyway" ? The following evening, though, I went back to my hotel in London, near Heathrow airport and it was all clear. I love London and England with the same passion I love Italy and Florence, and even if I admit that there are much better places where you can live right now, I wouldn't wanna live anywhere but in Italy and wouldn't wanna spend my holidays in any place that's not England, because when you go back to the hotel after an awful day in Germany or France or Spain, the bartender will give you a scotch and say "to you, sir" whilst after an awful day in the Uk the bartender told me "I made it double, you look like you need it" Priceless. P.S. I'd like to apologize for any mistake I might have made in these articles. Unfortunately the website doesn't allow post publication corrections and I'm a bit clumsy. Article Source: http://www.writearticles.org/ About Author / Additional Info: Comments on this article: (0 comments so far)
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