• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    8·
    1 个月前

    It’s “cream” that is mostly sugar and flavor other than cream. Most of them are also non-dairy, hence why the first cream is in quotes. The word “creamer” generally refers to the non-dairy cream substitutions for coffee.

    • throwback3090@lemmy.nzEnglish
      3·
      1 个月前

      You are selecting a very small and relatively recent subset of the category and using that to describe the entire category.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 个月前

        There are two separate clauses in my statement. One refers to the kind shown in the image. The other is a general statement about the term “creamer.”

        Also: Recent? My dude, CoffeeMate has existed since the 60’s.