skinny espresso

19:31 Nov 19, 2008

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Cooking / Culinary / coffees

English term or phrase: skinny espresso

Can someone who has visited Starbucks please explain what this is in words of one syllable? I'm wondering whether it loosely corresponds to what the Portuguese and Brazilians call a 'carioca de café' - a black coffee watered down with hot water.

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espresso coffee with skim (skimmed) milk added.

Jack Doughty

low fat espresso

Mark Nathan

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From the horse's mouth

PRen (X)

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espresso coffee with skim (skimmed) milk added.

Explanation:

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Your "carioca de café" sound like what in Spain is called "café solo americano" - black espresso coffee diluted with boiling water.
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Coffee Dictionary (INeedCoffee.com)
See Primer on Shade Grown Coffee. Skinny: Ordering a coffee beverage requesting the use of skim milk. Tamp: Action of packing espresso into the espresso ...
www.ineedcoffee.com/99/dictionary/

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:38
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 14

15 mins confidence:

low fat espresso

Explanation:
In coffee lingo "skinny" usually means that you use skimmed milk instead of full-fat milk. A "skinny latte" would be the most common example, i.e. milky coffee made with skimmed milk.

So a "skinny espresso" is a bit odd by itself, since pure espresso obviously does not contain any milk. It would become meaningful with something else tacked on, e.g. "skinny espresso milkshake", "skinny espresso cooler" etc.

Espresso with hot water in it is sometimes called an americano.

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Note added at 24 mins (2008-11-19 19:55:57 GMT)
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I expect that what is really meant here is a skinny cappuccino, i.e. the classic espresso coffee and foamed milk combination produced by a suitably noisy machine, except made with skimmed milk.

Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 05:38
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Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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Reference: From the horse's mouth

Reference information:
Here are two explanations from Starbucks:
http://www.beverageanswers.com/coffee/coffeenewsblog/archive...

and

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/517769/starbucks_sk...

PRen (X)
Canada
Native speaker of:

English

Note to reference poster

Asker: Thanks for that - it just confirms that I was way off beam with my question.

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