"Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote
Spiced tea with milk. Well, technically, it just means "tea with milk", but in English chai is used exclusively for spiced tea
Never heard of it I confess. I've heard the, presumably related, term char, meaning a cup of black tea (as in tea without milk, not black leaves!). And when I've been in India I've heard tea called chai, but again it wasn't spiced, just plain old tea without milk. But I've never heard of chai being used in the UK, certainly not in Scotland!.
"Latte" is short for the Italian "caffè latte", or literally "coffee with milk". The latte part means "with milk", not coffee.
And I'm familiar with coffee latte, but like your waiter I'd never heard of chai and latte being used together. So I too might have brought you coffee and tea mixed! :-) PS. I tasted the Nestle's chai when I was in Australia and your description accords with my findings! :-( _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
