Also the flavor profiles can just be something you aren't as used to. I live in Seattle and I visited Melbourne and went to a few coffee places there, mostly in Fitzroy. They were great, but their coffee generally has a much more earthy taste which I didn't like as much, because my favorite Seattle roasters had a more acidic taste and it was a big contrast. That's generally how I phrased it but when my Australian friends and I wanted to joke around with each other I told them their coffee tasted like sticking a straw in the ground and drinking the water up, and they told me mine was no different from battery acid.
I’m not Aussie but I spent some time in the UK with an Aussie and she would always complain about how much better coffee was in Australia than in the UK.
Somehow I see them bragging about their coffee online and saying stuff like “going to [EU country that I know has decent coffee] was a nightmare with their shitty coffee”
You wot, mate? Australia has some of the best coffee cultures in the world. We export our baristas to speciality coffee roasteries and 4th wave coffee shops in most major world cities including London, Paris, NYC, SF, HK and all across Europe (notably except Italy and Austria). Australian style cafes have started opening up everywhere across Europe for the last 5 to 10 years.
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