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[[File:SkinTones_365SkinTones 365.gif|frame|The various flavors of humanity.<ref>Asians and Native Americans excluded.</ref>]]

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* In the ''[[Daredevil (Filmfilm)|Daredevil]]'' movie, an old lady sitting next to Bullseye on a plane rambles on about her daughter in law eloping with "this semi-colored fellow from London. What's the word for that? [[Racist Grandma|Mulatto]]. Let's just say he had a little cream in his coffee."

* ''[[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]]'' heroine Holly Short is variously described as having "nut-brown" or "coffee" coloured skin. The Artemis Fowl Files, a companion book, says her whole species is brown-skinned, but only she gets the fancy adjectives.

* Jasper Peavey in ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes Atat the Whistle Stop Cafe]]'' is described as having 'coffee-with-cream' skin.

* In ''The Princes of the Air'' by ~[[John M. Ford~]] there's a scene where the protagonist and a woman he's interested in are having coffee together, and it's noted in passing that her skin tone matches the coffee-with-cream they're drinking.

* In his ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]'' series [[Spider Robinson]] references and expands upon the concept with the following speech, delivered by a drunken Irish Sidhe:

* In a [[The All-Concealing "I"|blink-and-you'll-miss-it viewpoint character description]] characteristic of [[Neil Gaiman]], Shadow of ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]'' is described as having a cream-and-coffee complexion. Whether that means he's [[But Not Too Black|Not Too Black]] on his mother's side, [[But Not Too White|Not Too White]] on his father's side, or even the less-likely-in-context "dark cream in some places, light coffee in others" has been [[Internet Backdraft|hotly contested]] amongst fans.

* Slightly confusingly for people used to this trope, [[Enid Blyton]] generally used this kind of language to describe tanned ''white'' people.

* Appears in ''Homeward Bound'' by [[Harry Turtledove]]--as—as part of an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], as it's used to describe a black military officer called Coffey.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* In one episode of ''[[Will and Grace]],'' when Grace is about to dump a man played by Gregory Hines, Will wonders why, since not too long before, Grace was pouring milk in her cappuccino to show him what pretty colors their kids would be.

* The Human Color Wheel from ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]''. It goes from Seal to Seal's teeth!

{{quote| "Que j'aime ta couleur café." / "How I love your coffee complexion."}}

* Referenced in [[Real Life]] by [[The Big Easy|New Orleans]] Mayor Ray Nagin in his [[wikipedia:RayChocolate nagin#.22ChocolateCity City.22speech|"Chocolate City" speech]] speeches and comments. He was simply referencing an old [[George Clinton|Parliament-Funkadelic]] song about D.C., but the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of the comment became an [[Epic Fail]] that nearly cost him his re-election. His back-pedalingpedalling clarification that meant "chocolate ''with milk''" was unintentionally hilarious, however.

* In [[Stephen Colbert]]'s 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner, he describes [[Washington DC|Washington, D.C.]], as "the chocolate city with a marshmallow center." ("And a graham-cracker crust of corruption... it's a Mallomar, basically.") Two years later, the city's marshmallow center has received its own [[Barack Obama|chocolate center]]. for eight years.

* This is very common in [[Useful Notes/Brazil (useful notes)|Brazilian]] culture, where the very large mixed-race population means that a kind of shorthand is more or less necessary.

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