What real coffee looks like

When I used to work in a coffee shop (The Dragonfly Caffe in New York!) we would get people in to the store all the time who would order a macchiato, expecting to get something that looks like this:

Imagine their disappointment when instead, they received this:

If only the owner of the cafe had posted a copy of the following Coffee Diagram on the menu board, then my job would have been much easier and I would have been called an idiot far fewer times. For those of you who haven’t experienced a real macchiato, go to a real, non-corporate coffee shop and order one in a real glass espresso cup with a biscotti. You’ll thank me later.