This is the Modern World: Hancock's Half Hour edition

[neveragain]

Sure you're not thinking of Hugh Lloyd? It's been a while since I've seen it, but he's the one who walks off with Hancock's sweets after.

No, definitely Thornton. He sounded much deeper than Hugh Lloyd.

And I've just checked, Frank Thornton did appear in the episode as 'Mr Johnson, a blood donor' according to Wikipedia. But to get to the meat of the matter, does anyone else remember this skit?

[gilbertharding]

Everyone who was ever a 'barista' has heard it, usually multiple times a day, from some elderly 'character'
'I just want a normal coffee!! Do you sell normal coffee?'
Yes of course we do.
'I don't know what any of that "latte" stuff means'
I point to the picture on the wall with all the coffee definitions alwith pictures showing proportions of milk, coffee, foam etc. But they remain uneducated.

I'm probably some kind of arse, but happy as I am to ask for the drink I want by whatever name they choose to call it on their menu, I refuse to use their names for 'small, medium or large', and instead ask for small, medium, or large. 'Vente' indeed...

[gilbertharding]

Thanks! I ended up asking Dan Mersh on Twitter and here it is!

Spoiler alert

"That's very nearly a ball-full"

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[thenoise]

I'm probably some kind of arse, but happy as I am to ask for the drink I want by whatever name they choose to call it on their menu, I refuse to use their names for 'small, medium or large', and instead ask for small, medium, or large. 'Vente' indeed...

I don't go to Starbucks on account of it being dogplops, but 'large cappuccino' (for example) tells them everything they need to know to make your drink as you want it. 'Normal coffee' doesn't - do they want milk in it or not? Small and strong or watery and weak? These people always want a large Americano with a dash of cold milk, of course, but they haven't actually communicated this.