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   From: mjp@roe.ac.uk   
      
   mimus  wrote in news:zm6h3snzo2vr.f26q8o7zh0vi.dlg@   
   40tude.net:   
      
   > On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:51:12 +0100, banana wrote:   
   >   
   >> What should decent people call 'Americano' coffee?   
   >>   
   >> Not being a calf, I don't drink latte or cappuccino.   
   >>   
   >> I drink coffee 'Americano', i.e. espresso topped up with hot water.   
   >>   
   >> But it's getting embarrassing to order it!   
   >>   
   >> If pro-war American nationalists can call chips 'freedom fries' instead   
   >> of 'French fries', can some anti-war opponent of the American empire   
   >> please think of a term to replace 'Americano' for coffee???   
   >>   
   >> Suggestions welcome!   
   >   
   > "Yankee".   
   >   
      
   Damnyankee, surely?   
      
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