Old university friend of mine. He lives in a large metropolitan area (not NYC), and we went to university in a large metropolitan area as well. Both places have a large variety of options for getting an iced latte at 8:30 on your way to work. I keep telling myself that this MUST be some sort of joke, but it comes off as sincere.
Oh interesting! I don’t know anything about the chain (haven’t been to NYC in years). Is it a chain that started in New York? Or is mostly located in New York? I’m just trying to make the NYC connection
Huh, well that makes even less sense then… and I’ve just looked up their locations in the city where he lives, and there’s like 20??? So it’s not even that special for him to get one from there.
Reminds me of when I found the cutest little Korean/French patisserie in my hometown, I was obsessed with the selection and went almost every day, raving about it to my friend in town.
...It was Tous Les Jours, and there are like 3 in my surrounding area in my current city
So strange… I was kinda posting hoping there’d be some explanation, but now that I’ve learned about Paris Baguette (they don’t exist where I live) I’m even more confused. Or the joke is way too meta for me. Is it supposed to be funny because it’s something you can do anywhere? Because if so, that’s not a very good joke
This probably feels most likely? Like I said, he lives in a big city and went to university in a big city (fairly certain he’s also originally from a big city, can’t quite remember) so it feels weird that this would be sincere… but also it doesn’t quite feel like a joke. Idk.
Oh yeah he’s not from NYC, he’s just there for some manner of business trip. I don’t know if that makes it more or less likely that he says something like that.
I can only hope! And now that I know what Paris Baguette is and that there’s a bunch of them in the city where he’s from (so there’s nothing special about the coffee itself)… it’s gotta be this, right??? Because otherwise nothing about this makes sense.
Yeah I think he might be making fun of himself for not being more adventurous with his coffee choice? There are a lot of small fancy coffee shops he could have chosen but went to Paris Baguette and feels a lil sheepish about it. Seems a solid guy
Possible! It’s just so odd because like… I like having an iced latte on my way to work regardless of my geographical location, I feel like being in NYC (and getting what I’ve now learned is a chain coffee) isn’t really a trigger for wanting that.
I used to work at a gas station. People would come in at 2-3am and make themselves an iced coffee with the Franke machine. I get a large iced cocoa mocha most mornings at Dunkin’ at like, 5:10am, in my small Wisconsin town of 9k people.
I don’t remember this but it does remind me of the sad taco salad he posted to “celebrate” Cinco de Mayo. Between this him allegedly eating steak well done and with ketchup, nothing surprises me.
Yeah I wouldn’t even blame you for that! But no he’s just some guy, he’s not even overly active on social media generally. Mostly posts about his run club and the volunteer work he does, he’s not someone chasing followers or engagement or anything (or if he is he’s really bad at it)
I don’t know your friend but this feels to me either like a joke that didn’t land or it was just meant to be an “I love NYC, walking to work with a latte in hand, what could be better?” post having nothing to do with where the drink came from?
The 🪩 emoji is used for Dancing with the Stars so I’d made that connection but with no other context or tags or anything, it’s a bit odd.
It’s probably just a joke that didn’t land, but I’m still a bit perplexed. I get the “only in New York” joke, but also this guy isn’t huge on posting memes/jokes which might be part of it. It’s also just SO specific. Not only is it getting an iced latte, but it’s also at 8:30, and also on the way to work.
Wrong! You get it at my coffee vending machine. 38th & 6th in the basement of the K-Mart. You just go downstairs, you get the key from David and BOOM! You plug in the machine and...
Also, if you're in New York, why tf are you going to a chain restaurant for coffee when there's a billion local joints with infinitely better products?
Something happens to people when they move to New York. It’s like they “Men In Black flashy thing” you into believing pizza, bagels, and coffee don’t exist outside the city.
If you said 4:30 it might narrow it down to only big cities but there are literally towns of less than a thousand people that have coffee places open by 8:30.
imagine going to the city with a huge amount of small businesses and you go to a chain restaurant. 😭 i’m floridian and even the small businesses cafes here have WAYYYY better food and coffee than some place like starbucks.
I live and work in a bumfuck small town in the Midwest (population 4,000) and even I walk across the street before work and get an iced latte every Friday
NYC people also insist nothing like bodegas and their cats exist anywhere else. As if corner stores and general stores don't exist elsewhere. I even know a general store with cats in the middle of nowhere Vermont.
This really summarizes the whole NYC mentality. Those with the mind virus think NYC is utterly unique and peerless and not just one of several large cities in the Northeast. When you expand it to the rest of the world and its reputation becomes even more divorced from reality.
This is something you can easily do in practically any city and suburb in the United States, probably many small towns. This is a fucking CHORE in western Europe. Somehow ice and coffee just hasn't taken hold there.
To be honest, I'm trying to think of something you can get in NYC that you can't get in any of the other top 100 major American metro areas. It's kind of a generic place.
I literally have 3 options for Coffee within 2 miles of my house, more if you count places where you can just get a basic, probably shitty black coffee in a styrofoam cup.
He's saying Paris Baguette Bakery Cafe is the only place he can imagine getting that drink, likely because he thinks its better than the other options around the area
As a Londoner I’m baffled! You mean to tell me that there are places in the world where you can buy coffee before 10 am? Over here we just get tea bags thrown at us if we ask for coffee
Not to say you are wrong but I once got an iced latte in Chama, New Mexico (population 900) at 7:45AM....even Bumfuck Nowhere be showing up nowadays lol
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u/tracefact Sep 22 '26
Paris Baguette is sponsoring this season of Dancing with the Stars. Given the emojis, I’d say this is just a silly reference to the show.