Drinking Coffee from a Bowl

I'm sharing this because I'm not sure everyone outside of France is aware of this little tid-bit of information. I'm chalking it up under things I didn't know that I didn't know about.

In their homes, French people drink their coffee out of bowls in the AM. Like bowls most of the world would use for cereal or soup. Every morning they load up the bowl with filtered coffee and add a bit of milk and sugar and use two hands to caffeinate.

This is a morning only event, as in the afternoon, coffee is drunk out of your typical espresso sized coffee mug.

During my recent holidays in the south of France I tried this out and wondered aloud if I would get the coffee up my nose. My French friends were not as amused as I was.

 

Slurp up!