Tall latte

[Mark Mandel]

Always, ALWAYS, I order "milk or cream, no sugar".

Mark


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> On Sep 12, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "regular coffee"
> >
> >
> > In Boston, "coffee regular"!
> >
> > --
> That might be the NYC version too, since I'm mostly familiar with the term
> in the exchange:
>
> "I'd like a coffee please."
> "Regular?"
> "Sure."
>
>
> [to self] "Oops, forgot again."
>
> I think it sometimes happens on airplanes too.
>
> LH
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