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I suspect part of the offense is the mixture of black coffee and white cream, tho I agree it's blasphemy to mess with good coffee. And they dare to call flavored coffee gourmet! Gourmet coffee is the exotics, like Jamaican Blue Mountain or Kona. You got me started, Philip, so this rant is your fault.

Perhaps there is a vague hope we can keep any rants somehow or other related to language and words?

Well, now you have me confused, which is not unusual.
I'm not good with double entendres and thought the moo
was from the cow as well. I've never been to a
Starbucks for latte there or anywhere else either.
Just good strong black coffee. I could buy three pounds
of coffee for the price of one latte.

Rants can be discussions of words. The Original Good word for this thread is miscegenation. In discussing this word we wandered to pejorative terms for people of different and mixed "races". This makes sense. Slava suggested the words Moo Latte, might be an ethnic or racial slur. Some of didn't think so, but it shifted the discussion to latte and to coffee. All of these are English words and subjects for discussion.

I hope the original Good Word, miscegenation, can get some more discussion. The discussion can be touchy, but we are all able to take it. Remember there is only one human race and we are all, I avow, a part of it. I hope we have a goal in mind for this race but, if not, the journey will be worth it.

So shall we discuss mullato now?

I'd prefer that to coffee, truth be told. If I remember correctly, a mulatto is the first step of miscegenation. Early in the thread, quadroons and octoroons were mentioned. They come after mulatto.

What I was hoping to get at is that it was an egregious lack of tact and taste that led the coffee shop to hint at what is generally considered to be a racist word. Meaning that miscegenation is not something to be joked with.

...Meaning that miscegenation is not something to be joked with.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. As with most things, intention and context are important, but humor can be very effective in battling prejudice when used well. Some of my favorite comedians skewer kneejerk biases of "race," gender, age, class, belief in a way that unites a heterogeneous audience and leaves them with positive reactions. People can be relieved to laugh at the idea when they aren't afraid that they'll be interpreted as supporting it.

Of course, done badly or with malice such jokes backfire and upset people. The pun is too perfect in this case (and in light of other extremely polarizing and distasteful ads retracted quickly after a firestorm of outrage) I suspect the copywriters knew exactly what they were doing and thought it would be funny. They were wrong.

Although there is no way to prove it, I still think the copywriters were innocent in using the silly words Moo Latte.

Mullato is a word not claimed by the people it was meant to describe. Hence it should have no currency.

I am not gringo, white trash, or cracker but the words do not bother me. My family was on the loosing side of the Civil War, even though most of them did not participate in it. This unfortunate situation has left those from the South who are innocent of slavery at a great disadvantage through no fault of our own. After generations of educated professional ancestors, the Civil War left my family destitute. Some reconstruction laws prevailed well into the 20th century. I am the first person in my family to have gone to college since the Civil War. My son is the first MD in our family since the Civil War. A lot of people were killed in that horrible war. Some of us still have post traumatic stress disorder from it. I am a red neck and proud of it.

Well moo latte is still lost on me, but that is OK
as I don't need to learn any new one. Serbia
and Kosovo are today locked in their form of
miscegenation in the news. Copts and Muslims
in Egypt: From Adam and his apple to the end
of time, probably. South Africa is worried what will
happen when Mandela departs.


A Dry White Season: excellent movie on apartheid, if
a 1989 on

http://dvd.netflix.com/Search?v1=A%20Dr ... &ac_posn=1

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Serbia and Kosovo are today locked in their form of miscegenation in the news. Copts and Muslims
in Egypt...

Luke, I am sorry to say that you've missed the boat on miscegenation here. It's the mixing of blood in love, not the spilling of it in hatred.

Did anyone ever hear of moo juice? Can you guess what it is?

I hear Spanish call it leche.

Did anyone ever hear of moo juice? Can you guess what it is?

I've always thought of it as mlekho or moloko, but I expect there is a trap here. When will our Dr. spring it on us?

Did anyone ever hear of moo juice? Can you guess what it is?

Coupled with slava's comment and the love/blood
confusion, is it a play on words to mulatto?
Otherwise I give up.

Luke, moo juice is juice from a cow, ergo milk. Heard it all my life.