Mugachino

Coffee is served with chocolate-coated coffee beans – cappuccino $2 and mugachino $3.

‘Want a cappuccino? Macchiato? Long white?’ ‘Mugachino. Lots of froth, please,’ Margaret says to the waiter.

The two audience measurers agreed that the most watched show was Better Homes and Gardens, confirming last year’s impression that urban Australians have their feet firmly rooted in the soil (with both hands firmly round a mugachino from Central Perk [a coffee house in Friends]).

You simply follow the line of dead-eyed wage slaves attracted to this cynical, hermetically sealed, weatherless biosphere by the promise that a new phone will fix their punctured souls and homewares and jumbo caramel mugachinos will fill their gaping caverns of disappointment.