Ordering Milk and Sugar in Coffee

Here is my I'm a dummy question of the day. I'm new to the whole coffee drinking thing. At places like Dunkin Donuts they ask me how much milk I want. What is the correct answer? Should I be giving a number of those little thimble things? Or do I say just a little vs a lot? For the sugar is the answer in number of packets or tablespoons or what?

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lol if you want a lot of milk u would ask for it "light". otherwise you would ask for it regular or dark.


you can also specify what kind of milk u want (skim, etc.)

i usually get a large hot latte with skim and two splenda and thats exactly how i order it!

good luck!

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My husband likes extra cream and extra sugar, so he orders it that way-

Large French Vanilla Extra Extra

IN NY he would order it:

Large French Vanilla Light & Sweet

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Good advice on the milk. Dunkin Donuts likes to O.D. on sugar in your coffee though, so watch out. And it seems like they do it at every store. I like 2 sugar packets in my medium coffee (2 teaspoons). If you ask for 2 sugars at Dunkin, though, they give you two giant-sized scoops of sugar, probably more like 2 tablespoons! Or more. At least three times as much sugar as I want. I started asking for "one sugar" but even that was too sweet for me, so now I ask for milk and no sugar, and just put the packets in myself.

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Dunkin tends to add too much sugar and not enough milk b/c their coffee is like 20 degree hotter than normal. So I ask for extra milk and I'll add my own sugar.

So, "Medium French Vanilla, a lot of milk" because even if I ask for EXTRA milk, I still have to give it back to them to dump some out and add more milk because I can't drink it for another 30 minutes or risk losing 50,000 taste buds.

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most of the time the person behind the counter hasn't a clue and will give you the same amount of milk whether you say you want a little or a lot. and never ask for sugar. i think they dump it in by the tablespoonful

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I say light and sweet

or you can say with milk and 2 sugars if you want it a little darker

i used to get anxiety about this when i first started drinking coffee LOL

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When I'm at the deli I ask for a drop of half & half and one sugar.

At SB I get americanos so I add that myself.

I like it dark with one packet of sugar.

I have to be very specific about it..they always add too much milk.

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Not a coffee drinker but I get hot chocolate once in a while

I don't use the word "light" because they confuse with "fat free" milk. I will say "little" or "easy on the milk".

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I tell them light with half and half bc I like my coffee light and creamy with 3 Splenda

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I used to say very light with half and half and 10 equals.

Then I got the face and "Did you say TEN EQUALS?"

And that is why I stopped going to places like DD where they prepare your coffee for you. If I never hear "Why don't you have some coffee with your sugar?" ever again in my lifetime, I will be happy.

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what is strange is that they never ever understand what i want HOWEVER my sister goes in and asks for "half and half" and they give her HALF coffee and HALF milk?! How does that work?!