Before moving to the United States, I never considered myself a coffee person. To me, coffee tasted like any other drink, just with a bitter taste. But over the years, I’m getting more addicted to coffee, especially from my senior year in high school to now, which drives me to choose coffee as my big topic. I was vacillating about what perspective I should talk about, the impact on the human body, or people’s preferences; in the end, I decided to focus on people’s preferences, which was my original idea.
To be honest, I don’t have a specific preference when it comes to coffee. My orders are very different depending on the weather and how I was feeling that day. However, I’ve always been curious about the most popular coffee choices in the States. I want to figure out whether Americans enjoy drinking coffee with the latte art in a mug in a cafe or prefer the convenience and just a simple mixture combining milk and coffee (or only black is possible). Do they like sour more or bitter more? As Chinese, I was told that drinking hot water/tea is good for my body, so I consciously will go with less ice or hot ones. But Americans seem to be ice-addicted. It may sound stereotypical, but some college girls can’t finish the drink if the ice inside has melted into water. They don’t need coffee to concentrate, they need the sounds of ice colliding. So what’s Americans’ temperature preference is another thing I would look for. So big structure for this paper as I assume is: 1. why people drink coffee; 2. what they favor more in the current period; 3. what future trend(s) will be.