Re: Ping and Ahoy Vic!! - Kafe

Either way, with or without sugar is great.

> Yes, that is the proper way to do it. But even in Greece I have never 
> heard the word 'briki'.

aka ibrik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_coffee

The necessary equipment to prepare Turkish coffee consists of a 
narrow-topped small boiling pot called an ibrik, cezve, džezva, xhezve or

μπρίκι (bríki) (basically a tiny ewer), a teaspoon and a heating
apparatus.

> I have two of those little coffemakers at home but have always heard
them 
> referred to as 'jezva' (?spelling). Maybe that is Turkish.

Yep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cezve

> But they always make it too sweet in Greece. You have to insist to get
it 
> without sugar and the word is 'scato'.  Once they were used to me in my 
> favourite restaurant the waiter used to say 'scato' to me even when 
> offering a glass of water!

Heh, mispronounce the word for check sometime.  My wife is still
embarrassed 
about it.  Seems our captain (a catamaran) though it'd be funny...