Not all lattes are coffee. Be careful when you order a latte at a beverage store.

Speaking of latte, the first thing that comes to your mind is definitely "latte coffee", that cup of coffee with a strong milky aroma and silky taste.

Latte is a transliteration of the Italian word "Latte", which originally means "milk", and the "latte coffee" we know today is coffee with milk. So far, in Italy, latte still refers to fresh milk. It was the Americans who replaced latte coffee with latte, and gradually people all over the world followed suit.

However, this term has undergone another change in China. Have you ever ordered a latte, but the latte served did not have any coffee flavor at all? At this time, you felt cheated.

I heard that Starbucks has launched a series of tea drinks based on Asian preferences - Teavana drinks. There are two of them, one is called Matcha Latte and the other is called Black Tea Latte. I don’t know if you have tried them, but Xiaolu has tried it and it doesn’t have any coffee flavor, so it is actually not coffee.

There are many drinks on the market that are called lattes but are not lattes. In addition to these two from Starbucks, there are also sweet potato latte, five-grain latte, red velvet latte, green velvet latte, Gothic latte, cherry blossom latte and many other lattes.

Have you noticed that the meaning of latte has changed?

The meaning or name of latte originated from Taiwan. In many milk tea shops in Taiwan, we can see the word latte. They used this new milk tea product to quickly enter the mainland market and took advantage of the popularity of latte. This is a marketing campaign, and it must be said that it is a successful one.

Many people cannot approve of their behavior, but in fact they did nothing wrong.

The meaning of latte itself is "milk", and latte coffee is milk coffee. No matter if it is mixed with black tea, matcha, sweet potato or something else, there is nothing wrong with calling it latte.

In fact, Xiaolu has been fooled by this before. In order to make a latte coffee recipe for everyone, and a winter stomach-warming recipe, I searched for a latte suitable for girls in winter, and the result was brown sugar ginger latte. When I saw the recipe, I was wondering why none of the ingredients in it were coffee, and finally I found out that it was true.

After reading this article, I hope you will be careful when you want to drink latte in the future. When ordering, never say just the word latte, otherwise the drink that comes out has no coffee flavor at all, and you may really feel cheated.

Okay, do you understand today’s latte?