Liberals really DO drink more lattes (and researchers say it's because they're open-minded)

Daily Mail ^ | June 20, 2018 | Mollie Cahillane

[rickmichaels]

The term 'liberal lattes' is a familiar pejorative in the US.

The website Urban Dictionary defines the term as 'liberals who sit around and drink overpriced diluted Starbucks coffee while lamenting the plight of the poor'.

While it may have begun as a joke, a new study shows that people with left-leaning ideologies actually do drink more lattes - a beverage with European origins - than conservatives.

Researchers from University of Pennsylvania found that liberals drink lattes more so than conservatives because they are more open to globalization, whereas right-leaning people tend to take an 'America first' nationalistic attitude and shy away from 'foreign products' of all kinds.

They surveyed 1,500 Americans, 1,000 of whom were coffee drinkers, and found that members of both political ideologies are equally likely to enjoy coffee.

They also found that most Americans, regardless of political ideology, prefer regular brewed coffee to lattes. Only 16 percent of liberals, 11 percent of moderates, and 9 percent of conservatives prefer lattes.

They collected data about their coffee preferences, political ideology, household income, gender, zip code, and attitudes toward globalization.

[rickmichaels]

[Paladin2]

Soy lattes?

[Brilliant]

So the “researchers” are playing the stereotype game.

[jospehm20]

Lattes are pretty gay.

[JimRed]

...researchers say it's because they're open-minded

They are so open minded their brains have fallen out!

[McGavin999]

I think it’s because conservatives like the clean, bold taste of coffee and liberals need that watered down

[beethovenfan]

“Open minded” as in empty-headed.

[FrankR]

They’re not “open” minded, they’re “lemming” minded...they do what their liberal cohorts do, just to “fit in”.

They’re “fad junkies”, the group in high school that all dressed alike (to be different), and sat together in the lunch room.

Lemmings.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

I’ll confess I do enjoy a good cappuccino . . .

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Yes, liberals are very open minded...

...so open minded that their brains dribble out of their ears, and fall to the floor in a puddle, leaving them brainless. In their diminished state, they then vote Dhimmicraptic (or NDP and Lieberal, if in Kanaduh).

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I don’t know all the coffee lingo. I drink it black although I do like Carmel frappes at McDonalds.

[M Kehoe]

If you are too open minded, your brains will fall out.

5.56mm

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Here is your basic latte recipe, careful it's so exotic!

1. Take a glass and fill it halfway with milk.
    
2. Fill the rest of the glass with coffee.

Be sure to give an exotic name to your glass, e.g. "would you like a grande latte?" instead of "would you like a glass of coffee and milk?"

[Jim Robinson]

o·pen-mind·ed ˈˌōpən ˈˌmīndid/Submit adjective willing to consider new ideas; unprejudiced.
synonyms: unbiased, unprejudiced, nonpartisan, neutral, nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory.

Liberals are unbiased, unprejudiced, nonpartisan, neutral, nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory?

[NobleFree]

liberals drink lattes more so than conservatives because they are more open to globalization

Sissy drinks for sissies.

[lefty-lie-spy]

I drink my coffee black, whether hot or cold. I’m conserving resources by not drinking poofy coffee.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Cappuccino is basically coffee and milk mixed with a lot of super hot steam.

[EEGator]

Probably since soy has estrogen compounds.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Well said. I’m thinking of a meme with an Iron Maiden Ed Hunter, but I don’t want to dis Iron Maiden and Bruce Dickinson. We need a liberal icon with half a head to put this meme idea to.

[DesertRhino]

Milk sops