What it says about your personality if you drink black coffee

At home one, at the office two; I've done it at least three times today. At the table with my friend, in the kitchen at the office, at my desk next to May… Coffee is what I do in the mornings. Without a cup of coffee, I wake up less like myself.

By the way, Lil thinks I'm a bit businesslike because I always ask for a doppio (in Amsterdam, Italy, and at Starbucks) or a double espresso (outside Amsterdam, Italy, and Starbucks). But coffee with milk, frothed or skimmed or sweetened or I-don't-know-what-else is not my taste. I grimace when I accidentally take a sip of cappuccino. I'm a bit of a coffee snob, yes. Even though it looks creamy on Instagram, those puddles of latte mostly look creamy on my hips and, oh yes, reminder: I find milk in my coffee disgusting. And so I stand with a black coffee cup and a very small paper cup with one sip of espresso at the gate at Schiphol while the rest of the editorial team is in line with mint trolleys and flat whites, lattes, and all sorts of gadgets. The black-coffee drinker in a nutshell a.k.a. espresso cup.

But there is something going on with ‘us’. We black coffee drinkers turn out to be psychopaths in disguise. The magazine Appetite conducted research into your food preferences and personality. It turns out that black coffee drinkers, the people who can appreciate bitter flavors, have quite psychopathic but also sadistic traits. Okay, okay.

No worries by the way, you're not immediately becoming a psychopath, this is about traits and tendencies. And in the meantime, I'm happy that I secretly toss a quarter of a sugar packet into my coffee to soften the whole bitter edge, as long as the coffee isn't too weak. Hmmm, could that mean something? Black coffee drinker, you've been warned, they've figured us out.

P.S.: Here you drink the best coffee in Amsterdam. If you dare.

Source: Women’s Health