I go to Heathrow to pick up my wife, and I'm a little early. These days you have to pay £4 every 30 minutes to wait, so I go to the McDonald's on the A4 to wait, and buy a coffee to pay for my parking. I order a coffee, and am met with the "what sort of coffee" response that seems to happen these days. As this is a McDonald's I assume (correctly) that I'm not being asked "Brazilian or Kenyan". So I clarify - just a coffee - and, because I have a doubt it will taste nice, I say "white coffee" - and to make sure, sure, sure, I say, not a latte or espresso with milk - I just want a standard coffee. Some hope. What I get is shit. It tastes like an espresso with water and a splash of milk. It doesn't taste fresh. It tastes watery and bitter, like ashes and burnt black toast. There's no resemblance of a coffee at all. No coffee aroma or coffee flavour. The UK website confirms it's a watered down espresso (sometimes these things are called Americano). The American website says they brew fresh every 30 minutes, but the UK one doesn't say that.
Is it really so hard for these quick food places to put three scoops of coffee into a plunger, wait three minutes, then plunge? I don't mind waiting. I do mind being given a watered down espresso when I clarified what I wanted was a coffee.
Date: Nov 2015 Score: 1
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