Is it a coffee separated into its component parts, or a harbinger of humanity's last days?
A "deconstructed flat white" consisting of espresso coffee, milk and hot water served separately in three beakers on a wooden plank has provoked an outpouring of rage in Australia.
Writer Jamila Rizvi was served the coffee at a Melbourne cafe and posted a photo of it to Facebook, complaining that "hipsterism has gone too far".
"I wanted a coffee. Not a science experiment. I prefer to drink my beverages out of crockery and not beakers," she wrote.
At last count, her rant had 15,000 likes and 5,000 comments. Most of Australia's major news websites have now attempted to deconstruct the deconstruction - one went so far as to claim serving coffee in such a manner would "destroy us once and for all".
Bean city
Many Australians pride themselves on their love of coffee, and Melbourne's cafes, which embody so-called third-wave coffee culture, are justifiably famous throughout the world.
Australia's second-largest city is the kind of place where your barista won't blink if you ask for your small-batch single-origin beans to be extracted through a classic wood-necked Chemex drip filter.
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