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Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

carioca de café

English translation:

Café Americano

Added to glossary by lexical
Nov 19, 2008 20:03
15 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

carioca de café

Portuguese to English Other Cooking / Culinary coffees
If you're Portuguese, you'll know what this is - a black coffee diluted with boiling water. All I'm looking for is a reasonably convincing name in UK English that avoids terms like "thin black coffee" or "weak black coffee" (though that's perfectly fair to carioca).
Proposed translations (English)
3 Café Americano
4 +1 do not translate
4 Cafe Americano
Change log

Nov 19, 2008 20:05: Cristina Santos changed "Language pair" from "English" to "Portuguese to English"

Proposed translations

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Café Americano

Yes, I know this is actually Spanish, but I have often seen this in coffee shops in England to describe espresso coffee diluted with hot water (I know the capital A is wrong in Spanish but that's how I've seen it here). But I think you'd have to ask for "black", not the Spanish "sólo").
They may call it something else in the USA for all I know.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "If you've seen this in UK coffee shops, Jack, it's good enough for me. I know americanos from here in Spain, but I hadn't expected it to be current in the UK - but then it's no longer the country I grew up in."
7 mins

Cafe Americano

I have no idea if the equivalent term exists in the UK or not but in the US this mixture (black coffee diluted with boiling water) is called a "Cafe Americano". HTH.

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Note added at 7 mins (2008-11-19 20:10:57 GMT)
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Look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americano_(coffee)

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Note added at 9 mins (2008-11-19 20:12:20 GMT)
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Notice that the spelling and punctuation varies but it's the same drink and anyone who drinks coffee regularly is probably familiar with this term.
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+1
10 mins

do not translate

i've found several travel reviews in the UK and the Netherlands that use the term in Portuguese with a short explanation in brackets...

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Note added at 29 mins (2008-11-19 20:32:59 GMT) Post-grading
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very true...i live in the Algarve and can get terribly annoyed by the many English (and a few Dutch) residents - let alone tourists - who, after having spend significant amounts of time here still can't order a coffee in Portuguese....!
Note from asker:
I have a lot of sympathy with that view, Katja, but I think it won't do for this client. Personally, I think any tourist who can't be bothered to learn the names of the 8-10 varieties of coffee in Portugal doesn't deserve to be served, but that's just me.
Peer comment(s):
agree rhandler
1 hr
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