I’ve yet to meet a barista who wasn’t delighted to see someone snap a pic of their latte art!

Although, between you and me, I’ve had more customers excited for the most basic pours than any of the more elaborate stuff. I’ll pour a sweet-looking swan and no one bats an eye, yet people’ll go gaga over a simple heart pour.

As a barista, I often get customers who express this same kind of sentiment; feeling bad for “ruining” latte art by drinking it.

Y’all realize we know latte art is temporary, right? 😅 It’s honestly one of my favourite aspects of latte art. It doesn’t change the taste of the drink, it’ll last 5 minutes at best (even if no one drinks it, it doesn’t take long for latte art to look kinda gross if left on the counter). Yet baristas all over take the little extra effort to make a drink look pretty, just for a moment.

Seriously, you shouldn’t feel bad, if anything baristas will be hyped that you appreciate our artwork!

If there’s any cappuccino drinkers out there, what do you prefer: traditional Italian-style capps with the big circle of foam on top, or more third-wave style capps with latte art?

I’m not a huge cappuccino person but I tend to prefer the big-round-foamy style. I like that it’s aesthetically distinguishable, and this may be placebo but I think the texture and mouth-feel is better. Also, speaking as a barista, finding the balance between well-foamed milk and being sufficiently flowy for latte art is a pain in the butt :P

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Yes.

I, and I assume most people, go into the comments on Lemmy to interact with other people. If I wanted to fucking chit-chat with an LLM (why you’d want to do that, I can’t fathom), I’d go do that. We all have access to LLMs if we wish to have bullshit with a veneer of eloquency spouted at us.

Ooo, that sounds like a real fun trip!

If you’re doing some cycling, I’m doubling down on the Acadian peninsula recommendation. They have a network of great bike paths that connects the biggest towns and brings you across some gorgeous views.

Here’s the original comment on Reddit if anyone is curious!

I agree, sometimes I like to just let the milk do its own thing and disperse freely. It can look real cool!

IMO latte art is kinda overrated and overemphasised anyway. I’ve had great cups that looked like blobs, and masterpieces of latte art that tasted bleh. I’d take the former over the latter every day of the week.

Haha sorry, Maritimer brain has a different definition of “east coast” 😅 I haven’t been to the city in a while so my knowledge of the café scene isn’t quite up to date but I have a couple suggestions!

Café Olimpico (the one in the Mile-End) is a pretty iconic spot, it’s like the grandaddy of MTL coffee.

Café St-Henri is another classic.

Café Lali is a newer place I went to last time I was in Montréal and I quite enjoyed it. Smaller, one-barista operation, which I always find delightful.

Hey, everyone starts out horrible at latte art! If you’re looking to practice, Emilie Bryant on YouTube has a bunch of great tips and lessons that helped me out a lot when I was still learning :)

I must say though, it’s a lot easier for baristas to refine their latte art than home enthusiasts. Unless you have a huge, coffee-addicted family, you’re just not feasibly going to get as much practice as someone who works in a café :P

That’s cool! I’d love to learn more about that side of things. My current boss has a side-hustle as an espresso machine repairman; I should really ask him to show me a thing or two.

Depends where you’re headed! I’ll just list a few random spots off the top of my head (without getting too dox-y haha)

In Grand-Pré, NS, there’s Just Us Coffee House, which is a coffee co-op with a focus on fair-trade and sustainability.

In Sackville, NS, there’s Cranewood Bakery and The Roost Café which I’ve both been hearing good things about.

If you’re in Moncton, NB, definitely check out Epoch Chemistry, especially if you’re into lighter roasts. They roast in house and their baristas are very knowledgeable and friendly. I highly recommend their coffee tasting flight!

If your trip brings you to the Acadian peninsula (which I recommend on its own, lovely places and people around there!) La Boulangerie Grains de Folie in Caraquet is a must, as well as Aloha Café in Lamèque.

I’m intrigued, what do you do?

And yeah, I have no patience for pretentiousness or snobbery. Sharing something like good coffee with someone is a lot easier if you approach it with enthousiasm and understanding rather than a false sense of superiority.

I had an experience when I was younger and just getting into specialty coffee where a barista made a snarky comment after I ordered an americano. I didn’t get a drink from a café for like two years after that. If someone comes into my café and is clueless about coffee, I’ll share my knowledge if they seem interested, or suggest whatever’s closest to their usual chain coffee shop order if they just want caffeine. I don’t get the judginess.

Pic semi-related; one of my better tulip stacks. I don’t often think to take pictures of my latte art, and even if I did my current spot is usually too busy to take the time for proper photos.

I know tulips are somewhat basic, but aesthetically they’re definitely my favourite kind of latte art.

You’re mistakenly assuming the attributes are binary, stuff like screen resolution, regions, languages all have many possible values to help narrow down and identify you. It really doesn’t take that many for you to be identifiable.

You don’t need 5 posts a day for a community to survive here. There’s not that many people on Lemmy, things are a bit slower paced.

I mod !bicycles@lemmy.ca and we’d be lucky to have one post per day, yet I think it’s still a relatively healthy community, with a decent amount of engagement on most posts.

This just made me imagine a modded Civic but with rockets.

Honestly, knowing people who mod Civics, I wouldn’t be surprised of this has already been done somewhere in the world.

Have you tried updating your BIOS? If your PC allows you to boot from a USB :P

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I wasn’t talking about people on group rides, I’m talking about people using bikes as a means of transportation. I agree that people in group rides can sometimes be bothersome road users.

Red lights and stop signs are designed for cars and it’s honestly stupid to expect cyclists to treat them the same way. Studies have shown that treating stops as yields when on a bike is safer for all road users.

You should know that it doesn’t take “motor vehicle speeds” to cause a (serious) accident.

That’s not what I said. I was pointing out how your “swerve into a post because a cyclist ran a red light” is a dangerous situation made possible only by the presence of cars.

Cyclists on the whole break traffic laws a lot less than motorists.

Also, I love how your only example of “the dangers of cyclists” involves someone in a car having to react to a cyclist. If everyone is cycling, speeds are low enough to react and typically avoid collisions even if a potential conflict arises. The “forces someone to swerve” phenomenon mostly happens at the speed of motor vehicles.