Too Much Coffee

I think we better go back to having an "irony" icon again.

Welcome to TMC Erhan . I think there may be a little confusion in the way different languages are used to refer to things. In English 'Turkish Coffee' is used as a reference to the style of production rather than to suggest coffee that originates in Turkey. Quite a few TMC'ers enjoy using their ibrik to brew an intense little coffee using beans ground to a powder type consistency. You are quite right that coffee beans are not grown in Turkey

Yeah but Mark, coffee isn't really grown in the UK either, and yet Tristan has already has his first cups from his first harvest

ok, then cakeboy my mistake. .Salute
There are many roasting types of turkish coffee as well. The double roasted coffee is my favorite.
There are many brewing types as well. You can have different types in different countries like Greece, Bosnia, Lebanon, ıraq, iran etc. (ex cities of the ottoman empire) Also there are many different roasts in Turkey as well. There is one place in istanbul serves 'manda batmaz' (means buffalo doesn't sink ). It's brewed in hot water with twice coffee of general brewing; Very heavy, very dense.

Buffalo doesn't sink! What a fantastic term, I wonder how they came up with that

I love it! "Buffalo doesn't sink"

You can lead a buffalo to espresso, but you can't make it sink!

Probably, it refers that the coffee is so dense, even a buffolo doesn't sink.

Ah, yes! It's like the proverbial cup that is so strong a spoon stands up in it. But the buffalo is by far a better analogy. Hmmmmm, I have a friend with a herd of water buffalo. This may call for an experiment.

I heard water buffalo's are easier to grind.
Good luck with the experiment.

PS
You can send me some steaks if grinding proofs unsuccesfull.

or mozarella?

Gouezeri wrote:You can lead a buffalo to espresso, but you can't make it sink!

Kitchen sink?

Gouezeri wrote:You can lead a buffalo to espresso, but you can't make it sink!

I think the correct citation is: "You can lead a buffalo to espresso, but you can't make it sing"

This is because buffalo have a truly awful voice - in fact, there is an edict from 1306 in the kingdom of Penang (nowadays Malaysia) that specifically forbids owners of buffalos (in particular water buffalos) to let them sing, whether the buffalos had coffee or not.

I think this was in direct response to the infamous 1305 'Buffalo Choir Competition Riots', when buffalo owners decided to organise a contest of buffalo group-singing that resulted in spontaneous acts of violence and unrest across the whole of the province.

(History doesn't record whether said coffee had an impact on the tone quality of their voices, but given that the edict was a blanket ban on their singing one must assume that, for better or worst, it did not)

Blankets were banned too? My, how times have changed!

yep, apparently when the buffalos are cold they're less prone to singing