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    Inspired by my <a href="http://www.burtonini.com/blog/life/good-coffee-200400611">recent
    success</a> with coffee and flapjacks I thought I'd grab a quick bite on the way to work at
    London Bridge.  AMT have a posh looking coffee stand over platform 2, all polished brass and
    dark wood, which should be rained upon by chemical hellfire.
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    The woman serving me nearly gave me a decaf espresso.  Yes, a <em>decaf</em> espresso.
    Obviously she should be taken outside and shot for that alone, but it actually gets worse.  They
    put foamed milk on my espresso without asking me, which turned a lovely strong coffee shot into
    a strange small-cappuccino-with-a-kick.  I'm not entirely sure why anyone would want to put milk
    (frothed or not) onto an espresso in the first place, and I suppose it is good that the option
    is there (for the same people who ask for a diet Coke with a Big Mac, I presume), but I asked
    for an espresso.  I think they'll find most people consider an espresso to be sans bovine
    juice. Finally, the flapjack looked like oats which had been left to soak in left-over cooking
    oil and then chopped into squares, which isn't a great surprise considering the usual ingredient
    of butter (or margarine if the manufacturer is being cheap) was replaced by vegetable oil and
    "hydrogenated" vegetable oil (whatever that is).  End result: tastes like the cheap syrup you
    accidently make when dissolving sugar cooks too much, without a hint of oat. I now feel slightly
    queasy, like I'd eaten a small stick of lard.
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