>>Is there a club of retired members of Securitate in Virginia? I may be in some serious danger.
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>I asked them if I should give you directions, but they said they'll come to you, and will offer something hot and without sugar... I hope it'll be a good coffee.

And I hope it will be deep (as in "can't see the bottom of it").

Back home I drank my Turkish with just a bit of sugar, but eventually gave up on sugar completely. I tried to explain to various coffee-cooks employed by my users how small should that bit of sugar be, and invariably ended up with something too sweet for my taste. And they were perfectly capable of understanding "no sugar". There are only two things I avoided back there - too much sugar in my coffee, and too much vinegar in my salad. There were others, though, but not edible ones :).

>PS As a mathematician you should know that your sample data was too small to draw a conclusion for the whole country. If you must generalize, regular coffee is at least twice as strong in Romania than here, and the recipe is most of the times "good Turkish". Coffee quality decreases (and brandy quality increases!) as you go South-East to North-West, starting maybe from Turkey. How's that for generalizing?

Generally correct, IMO. My sample may have been geographically small (just a few places in Romania and USSR, and maybe a dozen in Hungary), but each spanned at least a year. Besides, we're talking taste - and de gustibus non est disputandum :).