"I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon." -Ronald Reagan
I am here to posit a complex question. This question, ladies, gentlemen, and otherkin, is how does humanity define the mochaccino on a metaphysical, spiritual, philosophical, and practical level? This profound problem can be divided into several sub-profound problems, which is exactly what I am going to do.
How much chocolate can one add to a latte before it can be considered a mochaccino? If you are given a latte, and begin slowly adding chocolate, is there a defined point at which it can be considered to be "switching" to a mochaccino? Knowing that you cannot have a "90% mochaccino", how do we, the human species, go about defining this point?
Perhaps you may intend to argue that any chocolate at all is sufficient to turn a latte into a mochaccino. In which case, I challenge you: if your friend requests a mochaccino, would you simply add a speck of chocolate to a latte and give it to her? No, you would not. Therefore, observation informs us that this argument does not hold water.
Another interesting conundrum: say you were given a latte. You consume approximately half of this latte. You then add a generous amount of chocolate, after which you finish the cup. Could you, without compromising your moral integrity, claim honestly that you drank half a cup of latte and half a cup of mochaccino? If your coffee cools down while you go to the bathroom, can the store charge you for a cup of iced coffee from a moral perspective? Is the nature of the coffee determined at the moment of its creation, or at the moment it touches your lips?
Ponder these and other philosofikal questions of deep profoundness in this thread.
