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Then one day I put in this order and the barista cocked her head to the side and said, "You mean a mocha?"

And I cocked my head to the side and said, "What is that?"

It turns out that combining chocolate and coffee was an idea that someone had already had! And that you can buy that specific thing, with its own specific name, at virtually every café in America!

So obviously I was a quiet uncultured Midwestern boy, and had not accumulated the vast amount of sophistication that I now possess. But one of the things that I find interesting is that for a fairly long time, people were just making me a hot chocolate with a shot of espresso without comment. They probably thought that I was being picky, because while these two drinks have very similar ingredients, they aren't quite the same thing, and it's possible that someone could prefer one to the other.