BY JOHNNY LIEU From Mashable

So, this is it folks.

It’s been saaah cool sipping on a flat white or the macchiato willy-nilly, but now there’s a coffee out there that could signal the irreversible decline of our once productive and healthy societies.

In what might be the worst trend since chopping boards for plates or fry baskets for chips (which have been slowly chipping away at our souls for years), deconstructed coffee is here to destroy us once and for all.

Imagine this: Waiting 20 minutes for a single cup of coffee, only to find that it’s been deconstructed into beakers of milk, hot water and an espresso shot. God help us all.

That’s what happened to writer Jamila Rizvi, who was served one at an unknown café in Australia’s so-called coffee capital Melbourne, voicing her shock and displeasure on Facebook Tuesday.

Rizvi told Mashable Australia via email she didn’t want to reveal where the café was, but ordered a flat white, which she admits she did so without seeing the menu first.

“Sorry Melbourne but no. No no no no no,” she wrote. “Hipsterism has gone too far when your coffee comes deconstructed … I wanted a coffee. Not a science experiment. I prefer to drink my beverages out of crockery and not beakers.”

Rizvi also foresaw the bleak future of the brew, in which we’d likely be eating beans out of a hat sometime soon. “Next stage? I’ll just get a chopping board with a bunch of actual coffee beans and an upside down hat on it,” she wrote. “This must stop, dear Melbourne. This must stop.”

Priced at A$4.50 (US$3.27), the deconstructed coffee was on par with normal prices, but was a bamboozling way to serve it, said Rizvi.

“I love Melbourne, especially its coffee culture, but this was a pretty confusing way to be served a coffee,” she said.

Melbourne, please save yourself from your impending doom.

IMAGE: A deconstructed coffee in Melbourne, Australia is surely peak hipster.IMAGE: FACEBOOK/JAMILA RIZVI

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