At 9:11 AM -0400 4/11/06, Gerald Berg wrote:
For those not in the know.
A double double refers to double cream and double sugar in one's
coffee. I think it may be an eastern Canadian thing. I never heard
it said on the west coast. One thing is definitely Ontario is the
call for a 'regular' coffee -- which means one cream and one sugar.
Go figure.
Actually that's a New Yorkism. Perhaps Boston and other places in
the NE as well, but definitely NYC, and has been since at least the
1940s.
John
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