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Addicted to Half-and-half
This traveler’s quest to find coffee creamer in the U.K.
When I decided to move to London in 2017, of course I had anticipated a lot of changes. I had planned to downsize to a small flat, expected to miss my family tremendously, and joked about adding the words “lovely” and “quite” to my vocabulary. This all made sense.
What I did not plan on, was giving up my daily fix of caffeine-and-dairy heaven, also known as “coffee with cream.” And when I say “cream,” I usually mean half-and-half. I had been drinking coffee with half-and-half in it for my entire adult life. My parents used half-and-half daily during my childhood. My siblings use half-and-half too. Half-and-half is practically synonymous with morning in my family. I could not believe I had been taking it for granted. Even amidst an international move, I never, ever, EVER thought to myself “what if half-and-half goes away?”
In the US, half-and-half is made by several brands, and is available everywhere. It is a magical combination of 50% dairy milk and 50% actual cream, and adding it to coffee is monumentally better than adding milk. That’s right, monumentally better. It makes the coffee richer and tastier than milk could ever dream of. (You half-and-half drinkers out there know this is true.)
