So I usually order a long black with cold milk on the side.  I say usually because in some situations I feel silly placing that order and go with a flat white.  Sometimes, and in some company, it seems pretentious.  In other situations, a flat white seems unsophisticated.  I have just had the realisation that I sometimes alter my coffee order so that other people don’t feel uncomfortable.

I was thinking about what an odd habit “coffee diplomacy” is before I sat down to write this.  I googled ‘what your coffee order says about you’.  The long black apparantly is the drink of no nonsense men who would rather read the broadsheets than check their i-phone.  I am a single mum on the DPB.  I do read the paper though.

So, I intend to explore this habit and talk to other people about whether they change their order for any odd reasons.  I wonder what I will find. I suspect those no nonsense men perched behind the Dom down at Mojo may not?