March 10, 2026 ·
I keep realizing the genius of an Americano the older I get. When I moved to America as a teenager, my first job was at a Walmart in Houston. It’s where I first saw the trademark American drip coffee. It neither registered nor made much sense.
Then I worked at an oil refinery a few years later, and I saw again people drinking loads of black coffee there. It's where I realized that drip coffee is the American worker’s coffee.
An “Americano” is watered down black coffee. The gentleman-laborer’s drink.
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