The life of a barista is a weird one. When every customer you have is someone who hasn't had their first coffee of the day, there's no knowing what kind of people can lumber in. Some take on the challenge and become a barista that's the living definition of chaotic good. Others just stand in awe and watch a 46-year-old woman drink 8 Red Bulls worth of caffeine in a single swig.
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For many people, coffee is an essential part of their day. But let's face it, instant coffee isn't the most exciting drink on the menu. If you're ready to mix it up and try a new way of drinking your instant coffee in the morning, try making this whipped coffee (also known as Dalgona coffee). You don't need any special ingredients (and it can be vegan too if you want), and it only takes a few minutes to make.
ATTENTION EVERYONE: the pumpkin spice latte is officially back at Starbucks, and we can't even. Like for real, PSLs are life you guys. In honor of such a momentous occasion, we've gathered up some of the most basic pumpkin-spice memes we could find to remind you all that it's okay to embrace your inner basic sometimes. We won't judge you.
So put on your yoga pants, light up your scented candles and grab yourself a freaking PSL.
Need some darkness, but your local meme lord isn't cutting it. Say no more! Do we have the solution for you.
Twitter is a hive of scum and villainy, including our favorite two-faced chubby orange monster, Ernie and his friend Bert. It is also the quickest way to shake off the dread of the coming week and laugh in the face of danger and all those mistakes you made at the bar last night. If you're looking or some solid Sunday memes, look no further.
Sunday Memes
Trying to keep your inexplicable good mood on this most auspicious of days? Check out some more sanguine snaps here. And if all you want are just some normal, regular, Sunday memes, then there you go. Or perhaps just some funny tweets? Whatever it takes. Sometimes simpler is better.
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Why is it so easy to notice dating mistakes when you're not the one making them? It's like this guy makes every wrong turn you could think of. The self-importance on this dude is absolutely majestic. In case you aren't familiar with this planet, this is not the first time dudes have made mistakes on dates.
If you've been on the internet at all over the past couple weeks, you've probably become acquainted with BBQ Becky. She's currently internet famous for her racist call to the police over a group of black men barbequing in an Oakland Park. Clips of the disgruntled woman's call quickly became a viral photoshop meme, and even inspired an SNL parody. When Nashville comedian Tim Northern decided he wanted a piece of the make-fun-of-racists pie, the bar got RAISED. He decided to share these hilarious photos of himself "snitching" on white people. If you like what you see, find more on his personal Facebook page!
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Via _1yjl7
This issue caused a lot of controversy when British builder Paul Hopkinson originally shared this video on Costa Coffee's Facebook page.
Responses ranged from angry (and very British) to extremely pragmatic. Costa coffee themselves also responded to point out that the larger cup has space at the top and if the smaller cup did too that would equal the difference in size AND that the larger cup has two shots of espresso as opposed to one. 
via Paul Hopkinson
As for the engineer's math, we're going to take his word for it and assume that he's solved the mystery of why both cups seem to hold about the same amount of liquid.
Via @walterscoffee
Walter's Coffee Roastery opened up in Instanbul about a year ago. It was a wonderful idea, presumably based off of this sequence from the TV series 'Breaking Bad':
Now they are bringing the chemical themed roastery and coffee shop to Brooklyn, New York by the end of this summer. They plan to bring the same level of coffee chemistry and 'Breaking Bad' references that caused the internet to fall in love with them in the first place. 
Via Mashable
Since the dawn of sliced bread have we not seen such grand ingenious culinary innovation. Yes folks, in large thanks to Brandeis University professor Daniel Perlman, we're about to take a step into a world where you can sustain a legit caffeine buzz (like several cups worth) off a muffin.
During his interview with Eater, Perlman says, "This flour contains 2.5 percent caffeine by weight, so if you were to put 4 grams of this into, say, a breakfast muffin, it would be the equivalent of drinking a cup of coffee."
Hold the phone. Say what now? And yes, it gets better; this flour's derived from green coffee beans, and rich in major health benefits. The roasting process for these green coffee beans helps retain antioxidant chlorogenic acid, which scientists believe can significantly diminish your risk of heart disease and diabetes.
If you're someone who's susceptible to over self-medicating on that java fix, Perlman says not to worry too much. He explains, ""Unlike some bars that are loaded with chemically purified or synthesized caffeine, this is natural food source caffeine. I would expect it to be absorbed a little more gradually than the caffeine in a cup of coffee, so [it would offer] a more sustained release and longer-term stimulation than you get when you drink a cup or two of coffee."
Perlman additionally informed Eater his coffee flour is a "very user-friendly ingredient", meaning it's pleasingly easy to bake with. Put your hands together and give a warm round of applause my fellow novice bakers.
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Via Florida Today
Somewhere out there, a barge is missing some very important cargo.
This morning, thousands of cans of Cafe Bustelo coffee washed up on shore in Indiatlantic, Florida. If you happen to live near by, you may want to jump in your car and join other residents in looting beaches for cans and cases of precious, precious caffeine. The coffee suffered a long and tumultuous journey on the open ocean after it likely fell off a cargo ship headed for Puerto Rico, but the goods inside are reported to still be sealed and dry.
Look at those poor cans; they're suffering! Take them home.
Via MailOnline
You gotta watch out for those Starbucks lovers.
Laura Roberts, a 19-year-old customer at Starbucks in London, received a rather flirty (and cheesy) message on her coffee cup from a male barista.
The unidentified employee scratched out the hot coffee warning and left this message: "Careful you're extremely hot" with an arrow and smily face.
Calm down, lover boy!
The thing is Roberts is engaged and her mom has Facebook—both big problems. Her mom posted a photo of the cup on the Sh*t London Facebook page.
The post received tons of backlash and angry comments, but Roberts is choosing to not identify the barista.
"It's my local Starbucks and he's lovely," she told MailOnline. "He always does it."
"That day I sent a picture of the cup to my mum, because she lives quite far away and she put the picture on Facebook."
Moral of the story: Keep mom off Facebook.
Via Mashable
A coffee shop in London has been forced to remove a sign displaying the shop's name from outside its building.
But the shop's response was rather cheeky.
The coffee shop was rebranded more than a year ago from the more boring "Bermondsey Street Coffee."
Then the owners received this letter this month from the lawyers of the owners of the building.
No humour please, we're British. pic.twitter.com/P1U9VhAEho
— Fuckoffee (@fuck0ffee) October 21, 2015Seeing as they had no real choice in the matter, they replaced the sign.
Sign going down (video) pic.twitter.com/z4mOz43NtJ h/t @antsonscreen
— Fuckoffee (@fuck0ffee) October 27, 2015Here's the new sign.
┌П┐(•_•)┌П┐ pic.twitter.com/mOSZ4y5ggJ
— Fuckoffee (@fuck0ffee) October 27, 2015Effective? Yes.
Just as funny? Nah.
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First our sticks, and now our coffee beverages. There is no stopping the #selfie.
YouTuber Megan Bowen lives in South Korea and vlogs regularly about the food, entertainment and culture of this interesting part of the world.
In her latest video, Megan takes viewers on a tour of a cafe that prints selfies on edible lattes. The cafe is called "CaFace," which is just almost too clever.
First the selfie...
And then it's time to destroy your face...
Never change, South Korea. Never change.
Via Mashable
Have you ever kissed a loved one and wished that hot coffee would come pouring out of their mouth and into yours?
Probably not. But one Korean designer wants to simulate that weird fantasy.
As Mashable writes:
Created by designer Jang Woo-Seok, the custom lid gives the illusion that you're drinking piping-hot coffee poured through the lips of another person. And who doesn't want that?
Woo-Seok thought up the design after noticing that existing coffee lids lacked flair of any kind. In an email with Mashable, Woo-Seok explained that while coffee can be obtained every day, you aren't always guaranteed a kiss. This lid aims to solve that problem.
"So I created it for my sexual desire. Just kidding," Woo-Seok added, aware of the design's peculiar nature.
That's not a very funny joke.
Woo-Seok describes it further on his Behance site:
Different from the other coffee lids which have a usual hole to put a straw or to drink directly, Take 'Kiss' Out looks like a human face. Therefore, a coffee drinker experiences a visually funny and emotionally different coffee-drinking when drinking.
Take-out coffee is a symbol of city culture and fashion.
Shape of a lip is a distinctive style, thereby the combination will be fun.
Yeesh. If you say so.
