It was stupid with the freedom fries and it's still stupid today
It's funny and the Americans being salty about this one, when their country is becoming more and more fascist every day, are even funnier. Get mad about real important things, not this 😂
Those Americans need to look in a mirror first, with their "freedom fries", because France decided not to back them in their needless war in Iraq.
We No Speak Americano. (C) 2010 Sweat It Out is a Sydney-based record label started by the late and great AJAX
while I support Canada boycotting the US, you have to admit this in particular is "freedom fries" tier patriotism. it was embarrassing then, and it is embarrassing now.
We changed the nane of a product because you haven't joined us wilding an unjustified war on brown people
vs.
We changed the name of a product because you waged an unjustified trade war against us for no reason, even tough we have been your closest alley.
Not the same.
Next thing you know Lady Gaga is going to rename her song to Canadiano
A canadiano is actually a cup of drip coffee with two espresso shots
What desperate soul invented this, I hope they're doing better now, wherever they are
I could’ve sworn that was a redeye
Yes, but one shot.
Ugh.
It should be left Americano. It’s called that because Americans couldn’t handle the stronger coffee or espresso and wanted it watered down. Weak. “Americano” is kinda insulting by itself. But whatever works for you.
That’s one theory as of why. The other is a lack of coffee supplies during wartime.
This one is ironic because the macho-mindset of needing to be STRONG and therefor only consuming hard stuff is realy American interpretation of manhood in itself.
Writing as a fan of the americano, I think we should just call it what it is. After all, what's more american than taking something good and watering it down?
Alternatively we could call it the italiano since that's where it originated. Or "café à l'eau" perhaps, what's more Canadian than randomly adding french. Calling it "canadiano" feels too "freedom fries" to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffè_americano#Origin
That said, why not Canadiano. Sometimes you want more and a litttle hydration in there. It's hard to sip an espresso for more than a couple of minutes.
Agree it feels kind of "freedom fries"-ey but remember that freedom fries were a US republiQan idiocy in a pathetic attempt to mock the French for being too smart to get balls-deep in the Iraq II war. No one but complete koolaid-drinking Qanuts say 'freedom fries' now because (a) the French were correct anyway and (b) fries are Belgian.
In that sense, this is probably better and has a chance of sticking.
It's not the same situation as freedom fries at all, but it has the same sort of cringe feel to me. Just like french fries, the americano isn't really american. We're not 'sticking it' to anyone here, so it rubs me the wrong way a little. I hardly have a strong opinion on it though.
Wait, so does it refer to American as in USA or belonging to the western hemisphere? I'm asking this as someone who doesn't live in the Americas and don't drink coffee at all and didn't know the term before reading this post.
Lungho Nero?
America? No.
chuckles and sips Brazilian cafézinho
Surprising that anyone would want to take ownership of the Americano
I like them :(. They’re very similar to coffee but a bit stronger
This took me a second to process. Is filter coffee "coffee" in north America?
It's not to say they can't be delicious and can certainly be nicer than a lot of preparations if it is rooted in a nice espresso shot.
However, the origin story is that American GIs couldn't handle espresso and made Italians water it down to make it more like "coffee back home", hence the name.
I'd imagine an authentic Canadiano would at least have some cheese curds in it.
Cafe con aqua
The Canadiano should be the Double Double (Double cream double sugar)
It should be coffee with moose milk.
But...isn't the Italian word for "Canadian" "canadese"?
Canadese nuts
Turkish coffee has been called greek coffee(in Greece and Cyprus) ever since the turkish invasion of Cyprus (50 years ago). New generations of greeks probably arent even aware of that(or it is a neat trivia that some might have heard).
Weirdest experience I ever had back in my barista days was an older gentleman approaching my counter and ordering a "GI Coffee". I had no idea what he meant and he had to explain it to me. It's an Americano.
Nowadays GI is more likely to be associated with gastrointestinal. In that context, "GI coffee" takes an interesting meaning.
Now add a Trumpecino: extra bitter and double the price.
And no coffee, because that's black and anything black is DEI
So more appropriate would be a White Russian, lukewarm, with some vinegar?
Way to offend the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages, possibly.
Nah they are calling it a Canadiasshole. It's funny.
Big "freedom fries" energy. Very silly.
If it doesn't have a hint of maple it's just watered coffee.
This reminds me of when americans renamed French fries "Freedom Fries."
This level of pettiness is something I am truly proud of, and love to see. When Canada floated that idea of welcoming in California, Oregon and Washington state as territories, my first thought was "I would move there so fucking fast, I'd leave a me-sized cloud of dust in this shithole regressive country and never once look back"
Where does the “French” in French fries come from? What made it French? I’ve never seen it associated with French cuisine. Only American.
French fries
Well,
Thomas Jefferson had "potatoes served in the French manner" at a White House dinner in 1802. The expression "french fried potatoes" first occurred in print in English in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by Eliza Warren: "French Fried Potatoes. – Cut new potatoes in thin slices, put them in boiling fat, and a little salt; fry both sides of a light golden brown colour; drain." This account referred to thin, shallow-fried slices of potato. It is not clear where or when the now familiar deep-fried batons or fingers of potato were first prepared. In the early 20th century, the term "french fried" was being used in the sense of "deep-fried" for foods like onion rings or chicken.
One story about the name "french fries" claims that when the American Expeditionary Forces arrived in Belgium during World War I, they assumed that chips were a French dish because French was spoken in the Belgian Army. But the name existed long before that in English, and the popularity of the term did not increase for decades after 1917. The term was in use in the United States as early as 1886. An 1899 item in Good Housekeeping specifically references Kitchen Economy in France: "The perfection of French fries is due chiefly to the fact that plenty of fat is used."
Americans coined a phrase and ran with it, it seems 🤷♂️
In Canada we just call it black
Watered down espresso is just regular coffee
So what do you call drip?
If you’re having water + coffee then it’s black whether drip, press, or pour
I don’t really want to get into ratios to differentiate between espresso, I think you can figure that out
Freedomo
