Thread: What happened to sugar in coffee shops?

Originally Posted by Simplicity

Sugar white man’s opium


I’m possibly going too get outed hear, but I can’t stand Sugar in Coffee, I just like “Coffe”

Unfortunately spending sometime in Sourh east Asia, years ago, we’re coffe was regular served with 7/8 heavy teaspoons of sugar,yuk.

Cheers Matt.

I rode a small hired motorbike around the big island in Figi back in the early 80s on the way to Canada.
They didn’t supply a helmet and my hat would depart once up to speed in the tropical sun.
I’d stopped outside a farm to rest for a bit and an Indian Figian from the farm asked if I wanted a drink. The tea he brought me was so sweet I struggled to drink it.
The upside was his wife sewed a strap on my hat so it stopped blowing off my head.
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Actually, another thing I take umbrage with is when coffee shop owners put out sugar and don’t leave a spoon in the bowl to allow the sugar to be used.

So, here I am facing a sugar bowl without a spoon. A communal sugar bowl at that. Something other people are going to use after me. Do the owners of these cafes expect people to use their spoon to add sugar to their coffee, stir it in, and then put the bowl aside? Hell no. Maybe some, but not me.

My preference is to dig into this sugar bowl and sprinkle those delicious grains onto the fluffy stuff on top of my coffee. The fluff is to be savoured. When the first few millimetres of fluff have been consumed I dig into the sugar again and repeat. How often? How deep is the fluff?

So, here’s my dilemma. I now need to dig into that bowl again to collect another spoonful of sugar. But that spoon has already been in my mouth. Do I dare stick my spoon back into the bowl? Hell no. That would be unhygienic.

Luckily I don’t go to coffee shops alone. My partner comes with me, and I use her spoon to sprinkle the sugar from the bowl and use my own spoon to sup the delightful mixture. So, that’s fine so long as I’m with someone. Albeit an inconvenience to my coffee-sharing partner. To do that you’d want to be close. Not a work colleague. But it seems very selfish of the shop owner not to provide a sugar spoon. Though, I have to admit that on occasions I’ve thought ‘Stuff it’ and double, triple dipped my spoon into the sugar bowl. I think that bit of unhygienic practice is a problem for the owner of the shop rather than me. But that’s just me.