• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    who seriously jonesed for breve (half-and-half)

    Doesn’t compute, what does this mean?

    • nelly_man@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      “Jones” is an American slang word meaning to be addicted to something, so “jonesing” for something means to crave something very strongly, and generally very vocally.

      “Breve” is a coffee drink that is commonly made with half-and-half, which is a product that is equal parts cream and milk. I assume that people have taken to using the term to refer to half-and-half itself, but I’ve not personally heard that.

      So the sentence is saying that their cat was addicted to half-and-half and would act like a junkie doing anything to get their next fix.

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Thanks! Learned something.

        But seriously, half is cream? At least make it whipped cream, what a waste.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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        3 months ago

        Interesting. My step-daughter got breve = half-and-half working at Starbucks, which just may be a local brevity slang.

        Looked up Breve on wikipedia and confirmed it includes the coffee.