interesting (and scary in some ways) post on Dutch espresso

by **luca** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:48 am

an why it's (usually - with the due exceptions) so crap.

http://itsnotpossible.typepad.com/welco ... espre.html

by **Nataleeps** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:20 am

I don't think I wanted to know that, as in 'ignorance is bliss'. Surely its not a wide spread practice?

by **Beanie** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:45 am

OMG! Read the rest of the site though and had a really good laugh. :lol:

Will share it with all my expat friends here :twisted:

by **Jo2** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:17 pm

I feel ashamed to be Dutch now... :oops:

by **Beanie** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:13 pm

Oh Jo, I'm sorry

Didn't mean it like that

Okay, there's lots of truth to the espresso (dunno about re-using though) but for the rest, I think to some point all expats everywhere moan and groan like that. If it was really so bad anywhere, they really would "go home" or elsewhere. I'm guilty of whining about customer service here too, which is why I though it funny, because I've heard it so many times. My European friends who now live in Canada bitch and whine about starting out with 2 week vacations per year, the weather, grizzly bears, long distances, non-concrete homes, etc .... oh, and of course, sometimes service is so over the top all that niceness seems fake.

by **Jo2** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:42 pm

No offense taken...

But anyway, what's wrong with re-using coffee? :twisted:

by **JimS** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:06 pm

Isn't this how decaf is made :lol:

by **zapty** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:35 pm

There is one place in The Netherlands I can recommend where they serve good coffee: Maison Blanche Dael (Blanche Daels Coffeelovers) in the beautiful town of Maastricht, where the coffee is good and the waitresses polite.
They have been roasting their beans themselves for 123 years now and counting.

interesting (and scary in some ways) post on Dutch espresso

interesting (and scary in some ways) post on Dutch espresso

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