As you may have read earlier this week, I have sworn off sugar for the remainder of this month and hopefully longer. Not necessarily sugar in all forms, but mostly things that are outright sweet, sugary and indulgent like cookies, chocolate etc.
This afternoon I met up with my friend Jill at the local coffee shop to sit in the nice sun and chat. It is pretty warm out today, so I wanted something cold instead of a hot drink. I looked over the menu and decided on a frozen cappuccino, which I thought would be like a coffee drink blended with ice. Well, the guy at the counter started to whip it up and I am pretty sure a whole lot of ice cream went in the cup, followed by some chocolate syrup. Oops. So needless to say, I kind of broke my own rule today, but I was not about to attempt to take back my order because he was not one of the people that I have talked with before that I know speaks English. I didn't want to be a pain and I didn't want to create an awkward situation where I had to let on that I don't actually speak German. Many of the coffee items are in English on the menu board and when I add the word bitte (please) at the end of my request and a good 'ol danke upon receiving my change, I feel that my spoken exchange is sufficiently German to get by without admitting I don't actually speak German.
So, I enjoyed a wonderfully delicious frozen cappuccino and now I know that in Germany "frozen cappuccino" is another name for coffee flavored milkshake with chocolate syrup and yummy crunch coffee flavored thingies on top. At least I got in some good pilates and weight lifting before I went for coffee AND I did 2 Rosetta Stone lessons as well so really... I was golden on 3 out of 4 goals today and that is not bad.
I guess I have to go back to a big goose egg on my tally of days without sugar...but it was kind of worth it :0)
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4 comments:
It's not YOUR fault the drink was full of sugary-goodness! I would just enjoy it! :)
Yum-o! What a way to cheat :)
MMM, that definitely sounds like a wonderful way to cheat!
Haha, you tried right?
I had a lot of experiences like that when I was traveling in Europe. Particularly in France where they have a rep for hating Americans I tried really hard to pretend to be French but I literally know like 3 words so when they'd talk back to me I'd be like shit haha. In the end they were really nice to me though, at least I was trying right?
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