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== [[Film]] ==
* 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."
* The French film ''[[Metisse]]'' (derived from mixticius, meaning mixed, compare the Spainish and Portugese term Mestizo) was called ''Cafe Au Lait'' in the US as a [[Double Meaning Title]] reference to the mixed race characters, mix of the characters races and the french style coffees they all drank.
* Used in ''[[Bringing Down the House]]'' when Peter's friend [[Eugene Levy|Howie]] sees [[Queen Latifah|Charlene]] for the first time. "Swing it, you cocoa goddess..."
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* ''Prom'' by Laurie Halse Anderson has a "dark coffee" girl and a "caramel" guy (with "hot-fudge eyes," no less).
* In ''[[The Great Gilly Hopkins]]'', the title character's teacher is "tea-colored."
* ''[[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.
* Half-black, half-<s> Japanese</s>Korean Hiro in ''[[Snow Crash]]'' has "cappucino" skin.
* In ''[[Doc Sidhe]]'' by [[Aaron Allston]], Ish (a princess of a South American tribe) is described as having 'coffee-with-cream' skin.
* 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:
** “I traveled the world in me youth, and I noticed yez/mocha, mahogany, chestnut and cocoa/ochre and umber and amber and gold/coffee with cream, coffee with milk, coffee with nothin’ but Tullamore Dew/amber and anatase, russet and chocolate, both the siennas, the burnt and the raw/hazel and sepia, several more/an’ never a black man or woman I saw.”
* When anthropologist Karen McCarthy Brown first meets the Haitian title character in the ethnography ''[http://www.amazon.com/Mama-Lola-Priestess-Brooklyn-ebook/dp/B0024NLN5C/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1265429908&sr=8-1 Mama Lola: A Voudou Priestess in Brooklyn]'', she describes her skin as having the color of coffee ice cream.
* 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 part of an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], as it's used to describe a black military officer called Coffey.
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* ''[[Angel]]'' once described Jasmine as "mocha".
* 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!
 
== [[Music]] ==
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