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Occasionally, at work, I can't suppress the urge to pay twice the
average African's daily wage for a coffee. That's a separate gripe:
these coffee companies getting away with fleecing us for some ground
beans, hot water and milk.
What bugs me though, is that I have to
specify that I want full fat milk. Isn't that tautology? I mean that's
milk, isn't it? It's what's came out of the cow. If you want that watery
stuff that has had the cream removed, you ask for skimmed milk. In the
coffee shop in my building, the assumption is that if you ask for milk,
you mean skimmed. I think this is some first world thing probably made
trendy by some American sit-com that milk must be "skinny".
I've only just started remembering to
clarify this. For the first six months, I couldn't understand why my
coffee tasted funny, then I realised they were short changing me on the
cream. Bastards.
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