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Cold Frappe Coffee in Greece = ena fra-ppe

The summer alternative to hot coffee in Greece is the iced frappe and if you like iced coffee you have to try the Frappe. This is not an American style Frappe consisting of ice cream and milk but a Greek style coffee drink which may consist of filtered coffee or instant coffee depending on the establishment. Greek frappes may be ordered with or without milk.

A Frappe is whipped in an old style soda-fountain blender, with the long spinning arm, like a Waring blender and then served in a glass.

Stateside, if you want to copy the recipe, you can still buy this type of blender at stores if you look. (Sam's, BJ's, Wal mart, Service Merchandise., etc.)

They are delicious, especially on a hot afternoon!

More Greek Coffee & Tea Related Words for Travelers to Greece

• with sugar = meh Zachari
• with honey = meh meli
• medium sweet = metrio
• with milk = meh Ghala
• plain = skheto
• very sweet = vari gleeko
• with lemon = meh lemoni
• very hot = poli zesto
• spoon = coo-talee

Traditional Greek Coffee or Turkish Coffee Now a traditional Greek coffee isn't really a Greek coffee at all, its a Turkish style of coffee and if you get a Greek drunk enough he'll finally admit it. Its made by putting the coffee and water together and boiling. Its is then poured directly into a demitasse cup with out being filtered so don't drink it all the way to the bottom. After you are finished, turn the cup upside down, and after letting the finely ground coffee grinds do their thing, read your fortune within the cup. Its like those ink blot tests sort of.

You can order them as a Greek coffee:" Ellinko Kafes" or as a Turkish coffee:" Tourkiko Kafes"

You can even do this backward: "Kafes Elliniko" or "Kafes Tourkiko"

Its unheard of to add milk to a Greek coffee but do it anyway if you feel like it. Upon ordering you inform the waiter as to how sweet you would like it; skheto, metrio or vari gleeko.

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