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You are a coffee drinker, right? I am. What do you, what is it? Cream, sugar, black, soy,

latte, squirt of syrup or something? What do you do? I feel like it's kind of different every time.

I think most of the time when I'm at home, it's just drip, drip black coffee, and then I put a little bit of regular milk in it.

And then sometimes I'll get a latte out, and sometimes I'll get a cappuccino out.

But for the most part, it's just like regular black coffee with a little milk in it.

Well, you know what half and half is, though, right?

If I have to say, like half and half, you know what that is, right?

What do you mean? No. What do you mean? If I say, I'll take a cup of coffee with half and half.

Yes. Oh, yes. I'm aware. Yes. All right. Well, because a friend, I'm on this because I was just talking with a friend of mine,

he's my age and he works with a bunch of younger people, like 20-somethings. And he says that they always make fun of him for getting coffee with half and half.

And, you know, like, apparently that's what grandpas do?

And he asked them, well, what do you get in their coffee?

And they said, well, soy milk or oat milk or something like that.

And then one of them said, well, what even is half and half?

And I thought, what is happening?

I do think that that tracks because my parents drink half and half.

And I don't think half and half has not carried over into my life.

And there have been times where I was using oat milk or I was using almond milk.

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