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ksdkjlf t1_jegmv22 wrote

If you live in a city with a sizeable Asian community there's a reasonable chance you can get actual Vietnamese coffee these days, usually cheaper than any of the New Orleans chickory blends. (Trung Nguyen, the leading Viet brand, seems to've greatly expanded their availability in the US in the past decade or so.) And a Vietnamese coffee filter is usually only 3 or 4 bucks. Cafe du Monde is often available at regular American grocery stores, but at a pretty steep markup for what it is.

The key is that Vietnamese coffee generally isn't Arabica coffee, the smooth variety most common in American coffee these days; it simply doesn't grow well in Vietnam. It's mostly Robusta, which is rather bitter, along with other 'inferior' varieties. This, combined with the long extraction of a traditional Vietnamese drip filter, leads to a very strong, bitter brew that stands up well to the cloying sweetness of the sweetened condensed milk. Chickory provides that same bitterness, which is why New Orleans coffee is often basically half coffee and half milk (and usually with some sugar too). If you try to make either New Orleans or Vietnamese coffee with an Arabica, even a strong, dark roast, it just doesn't have the bitterness you need to make it taste right.

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Vivid-Ice4175 t1_jegmtqr wrote

working in a restaurant downtown during anthrocon i can say that the attendees were by far my favorites of any conventions. they were always nice, smiling, tipped well, and generally had a great happy vibe. they are doing what they love with people who share common interests. I'm going to be attending this year. furries rule!

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Ceversja t1_jegmt6h wrote

Just the lack of encouragement and general unwillingness to explore cinema outside of a limited box of “this is what I like and this is what all movies should be like”. I know not everyone wants to risk their time to watch things they could find boring or incomprehensible but seriously; there’s so much more cinema out there people! From so many places! Yeah we all like the IMDb top 100 films but that’s only scratching the surface. Just lose the fear of watching stuff you’re not immediately familiar with.

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