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{{trope}}
{{quote|''I like my women the way I like my coffee: detrimental to hippocampal neurogenesis, but conducive to short term memory and attentional control.''|[http://lesswrong.com/lw/1w1/coffee_when_it_helps_when_it_hurts/1qg4?c{{=}}1 Steven Kaas]}}
This is a phrase where a person compares one thing (often their ideal boyfriend or girlfriend) to another thing, and lists what the two things have in common.
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A [[Stock Phrase]] that can often overlap with [[Metaphorgotten]] for comedic effect. Can also overlap with [[Dissimile]]
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== Comedians ==
* Several from comedian [[Eddie Izzard]]-
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** Shakespeare pulls a variation in ''[[King Lear]]'', except in that case, the youngest simply refused to provide a flowery metaphor, instead stating simply that her love for her father was [[Shaped Like Itself]].
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* Played with in Chapter 1 of ''Evangelion Unplugged'', a ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' fanfic by "Renegade":
{{quote|"Okay," Ritsuko said, turning around. "MAGI! Coffee, black, twelve sugars!" There was a whir, the sound of gears grinding and engines thrumming, and soon a little trapdoor on the workstation opened and a paper cup filled with coffee ascended from the depths of the MAGI's operating system.
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Ritsuko frowned. "No. Ground into powder and liquefied."
"Oh," Misato said carefully.}}
* In the ''[[Worm]]'' AU fic ''[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/taylor-hebert-pizzeria-tycoon-worm-au-officially-complete.598738/threadmarks Taylor Hebert, Pizzeria Tycoon]'', a minor derail in a PHO thread about Taylor's pizzeria about why people like cold pizza results in the response "Because sometimes people want pizza the way they want revenge... greasy and full of chunks of meat."
== [[Film]] ==
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* An inversion of this trope from the Scenes From A Hat game on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' is "Things you can say about your X, but not your girlfriend". Popular versions are "car/truck" ("Yeah, you could fit twenty in there!") or "dog", which results in an epic, single-word instance of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: {{spoiler|"Come."}}
* From ''[[The IT Crowd]]''..."I like my women like I like my toast. Hot..." "And consumable with butter, you don't have to remind me."
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' did a bunch of these in an episode concerning magazine compatibility tests. For example, in a question comparing husbands to kitchen appliances, Jill said Tim was most like a tea kettle: "Hot and steamy, done in two minutes" (adding that he does "whistle when he's done"). Tim and his friends also came up with their own test, with one question comparing wives to hockey equipment; choices included a stick ("Long, skinny, and likes to hit things"), elbow pads (A good housekeeper - "Takes care of the joint"), and a jock strap ("Gets in the way a lot, but basically supportive").
* ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]'': I like my toast like I like my women. Golden, brown, and covered in marmalade.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode ''Pangs'':
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'''Shawn''': That makes no sense. None whatsoever. But I can see where Mira gets her spunkiness! }}
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' segment about Joe Scarborough's [[Product Placement]] of his morning show's new sponsor Starbucks had Jon Stewart saying, "I like my news like I like my coffee: black and sponsored. No, wait, that's how I like the NBA."
* Fez on ''[[That '70s Show]]'', after Donna changes her hair from red to blonde, and he disapproves.
{{quote|'''Fez''': I like my women the way I like my wine: red and full of alcohol.}}
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== [[New Media]] ==
* There was a bit of an [https://web.archive.org/web/20110829132403/http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/I_Like_My_Women_Like_I_Like_My_Coffee Internet kerfuffle] when someone complained of seeing a T-shirt that said "I like my women like I like my coffee: [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|ground up and in the freezer]]." The ''Fandom Wank'' community listed the many ways in which they like their men like they like their coffee:
** ...strong, hot, and gone in around 10 minutes.
** ...tied to the back of a mule.
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** ...with a tongue-twistingly pretentious name that's much too long.
** ...bitter and Jewish.
* Was a [https://web.archive.org/web/20091005044553/http://wikifaqs.net/index.php?title=I_like_my_women_like_I_like_my bit of a meme] at one point on ''[[
* [[Memetic Molester|Pedobear]] likes his women how he likes his whisky: 12 years old and mixed up with coke. (He also likes them like he likes his wine - 8 years old and locked in his basement.)
* [[bash.org]] gives us the litmus test for [http://www.bash.org/?164094 a channel's racism].
{{quote|'''<Jaayy>''' BLACK YOU FUCKING RACIST BASTARDS! I LIKE MY COFFEE BLACK!}}
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* [[Noel Coward
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** His new comic, ''[[Leftover Soup]]'', [http://leftoversoup.com/cast.html has covered the cast page in these, all but one pertaining to coffee.]
* [http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=397 This] ''[[A Softer World]]'' comic.
* [http://www.octopuspie.com/2008-09-26/200-i-like-my-coffee/ Another fresh-ground set ] from ''[[Octopus Pie]]''. Including [[Shaped Like Itself]].
* One semi-infamous bad webcomic (whose name is not easily remembered) is posted fairly often in certain forums to satirize racism in other webcomics. It features a superhero punching out a black man who had just offered him a drink, saying "I like my beer like I like my rap music... NONE AT ALL."
* ''[http://survivingtheworld.net Surviving the World]'' devoted [http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson400.html a strip] to variations with different fruit juices.
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