cortado pilled
To be cortado pilled is to have fully converted to the cortado as your singular coffee identity — past the point of preference and into the territory of minor evangelism.
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To be cortado pilled is to have fully converted to the cortado as your singular coffee identity — past the point of preference and into the territory of minor evangelism. You've stopped entertaining oat lattes. You've developed opinions about grind size. You look at a 16oz drink and feel mild contempt. Getting cortado pilled usually starts innocently — one great cup at a good café — and ends with you gently correcting people's coffee orders at brunch. It's not gatekeeping, you'll tell yourself. It's just that they'd enjoy it more.
I went to that Scandinavian roastery once and now I'm fully cortado pilled — nothing else hits.
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