Non-Fat Latte: The New Diet Coke

Morning time for most people in this city is the same: shower, blah blah, coffee. I'm not unlike any of you. I ride the metro, I go green, I try hard to avoid the 'duck' and the underground tour, I get my A.M. caffeine.

I noticed late last year that this whole "non-fat" phenomenon is getting to be a staple in coffee shops. I'm also not going to lie:

I order non-fat.

Behind the woman on her cell phone, ordering a non-fat, no foam, three pump vanilla iced grande latte. Directly in front of the all too modern man, dashing into starbucks on his break from picking out Balenciaga bags from Barney's for his "girlfriend", to order his iced venti quad non-fat mocha. I've yet to sound that cool. I order simply a tall non-fat. You can't really say: "I'd like to have a tall please". There is no question that the barista would then ask "a tall what?". You would feel stupid.

It just sounds cool.

You also don't want to be the fat kid in elementary school. The fat kid in elementary school's Mom knows that their kid is 'the fat kid' and gives them the biggest lunch ever. And they eat it. Ordering regular milk in coffee is pretty much the equivalent. If you do it long enough, you get to like the taste.

Well, sort of.

A question to my fellow non-fatters out there: Do you really buy non-fat milk at home? I know you're proud of it. The loudest word in your order is non-fat. You make it known. But do you really eat your granola with non-fat milk? It's sort of watered down.

Maybe next season let's make the new trend a bit more tastey.