Word: cappuccino
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Somewhere on the causeway between Miami Beach and the mainland, my brother-in-law said, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "Vanilla cappuccino?" I whispered. "Yes," he said. "But where?" For reasons that are unclear to me, my bro-in-law and I share a powerful affinity for those hot, disgusting, highly caffeinated beverages you can buy only from vending machines at 7-Elevens. Finding a 7-Eleven in your own neighborhood isn't exactly rocket science. But we were vacationing on alien terrain. Where, oh where, was the closest source of the Treacle of Life...
Precisely. In Germany, once the most militaristic society on earth, you can now get a perfect cappuccino on every block. And Germans have become as aggressive as Caspar Milquetoast. The Russians? Moscow has turned into latte land, and so the remnants of the Red Army cannot even overwhelm a bunch of bedraggled Chechens. Why does Israel, a modern-day democratic Sparta, talk withdrawal from Lebanon? Just count the espresso machines on Tel Aviv's Shenkin Street...
...Restaurant on the corner of Babcock and Commomwealth, 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct.8. A large neon sign screams "Espresso" on the window of the shop, vaulting the otherwise unchanged 50s era exterior into the 90s. Edmund Morris has just ordered scrambled eggs and ham, a blueberry muffin and a cappuccino. "I think the cappuccino has all the necessary ingredients of the continuation of life," he'll assert later in the day, and insists on buying me one. The cappuccino is handed to us in paper cups, having shot, fully formed, out of a large brown machine with the push...
...endless reel in my mind now. A big boat is sinking; a starship is rising; an ex-stand-up is drawing $1 million per potty joke; and the studio magpies are eyeballing the receipts over Monday-morning cappuccino...
Instead of ice cream, it carries a line of hot and cold deli sandwiches, breakfast sandwiches and fresh fruit, as well as espresso and cappuccino...