Applejack Diner: June 2011

Early Sunday morning; Midtown Manhattan; Broadway & 55^th; Applejack Diner; no better place to be!  Order coffee & pancakes; add some turkey bacon rashers, even if you are a closet vegetarian and you are set for the rest of the day.

Coffee is coffee at a New York Dinner; good, hot & strong and plenty of it.  No decisions need to be made for a Flat White; a Latte; a Cappuccino; full milk; skinny milk; cup; mug, etc etc etc and all the other pretentious nonsense needed when ordering a coffee in Auckland, Melbourne or even London. 

Why can’t we just ask for coffee and get coffee in other parts of the world; in fact you don’t even have to ask for it in New York, it just arrives.  In a New York Dinner, coffee is coffee; common coffee, socialist coffee in the midst of a den of capitalism.  Who was responsible for the pretentious nonsense of forcing people to make nebulous early morning decisions about the type of coffee they want to drink.  I bet it was those marketing people that invade our lives.  In New York, finding a large, skinny, soy latte in a mug is as rare as a copy of “Das Kapital” in a corporate library (unless you go to Starbucks).  Drinkers should control the means of consumption. 

I’m going to move to Manhattan and live above the Applejack Diner, just so I don’t have to make a decision in the early morning about what sort of coffee I want to drink.  The only decision needed at the Applejack Dinner is how much maple syrup you can be bothered to pour on your pancakes.

If you are walking home along Broadway after a big night out, walk up to 55^th and take a seat at the Applejack Diner; you wont regret it and it’s open 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.