“Cappuccino” at London Pie Company – Greenmarket Square
Posted by Bug-E on October 11th, 2006
Having sampled London Pie Company’s “Two R8.95 pies for only R12.50″ special earlier today, I decided that I’ll go back and sample their “Hot stuff”. Being some dark liquid being pumped into a polystyrene cup from a small machine. I take comfort in the fact that it only cost R5.00.
I say “some dark liquid” for a reason. The coffee is produced by a small machine, about 45×70x50cm in size, with a spot to put the cup, an LCD display on the front, and about 7 buttons down the front next to the LCD screen, one button per beverage. You know the type. You must have seen something similar with Nestle beverages at some other establishment. Anyway.
The nice lass behind the counter promptly stuck a cup in the machine, and delicately pressed the “Cappuccino” button the same way that a woman with long fingernails presses buttons on a phone, you know, not with the fingertip, but more with the finger. A gurgle and a splutter later, out pops some foamy white stuff slightly resembling milk. “How many sugars?” Why two of course! It’s a small cup after all… More spluttering, more gurgling, and I notice a dark liquid pouring into the cup. From the looks of things, it might have been coffee. I can’t be sure until I taste this stuff.
A beep later, the lass puts two sugars into the cup, stirs with a stick, and proceeds to pour a copious amount of chocolate powder onto the white foamy stuff. And on goes the sippy-cup lid. Cha-ching.
OK, so this coffee is hot. Really hot. Even to the touch.
I’m sitting at my desk, so don’t really need the sippy-cup lid (dammit! What are these things called?! Sippy-cups are for toddlers! Or is this a sign of age where adults revert back to toddler utensils to make things easier? Like those goddamn sporks that are making a comeback!) I digress, again.
Taking the lid off, I notice the total lack of foam, and the chocolate powder along with it. This looks like normal coffee now, with a slight trace of foam floating around, it looks like somebody spat in the cup before putting the lid on. Not to worry, I was watching that girl, she didn’t.
*sip*
Dear god! This stuff is… is… is not worthy to be referred to as anything remotely related to coffee…
It tastes like dish water. (No, really!) OK, it’s not that bad, but then, it was R5. It’s weak, doesn’t have any kind of coffee taste to it. I can actually taste Cremora (Coffee creamer…). Go figure. I actually want to spit in this myself to give it a bit of taste. Maybe some London Pie Sausage Roll flavour from lunch. Argh. No, this cannot be called a Cappuccino, they’re fooling people! Don’t buy this stuff unless you only have R5 on you and you absolutely *must* have youur morning fix. And only if you’ve just rolled out of bed. London Pie Company’s “cappucino” might just fool your body into thinking there’s caffeine in there somewhere…
Do Not Buy!
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