I’m aware; and in fact at this point coffee cake does NOT require coffee be drunk at that time and can be had whenever. It’s almost like language often drifts like that!
Again: my point is not a lockstep of Exact Times You Eat the Thing or exact mirroring of meaning, but rather about drift in meaning/origin so that the concepts indicated by the phrase are not related to its dominant taste, which is unexceptional if you’re used to it (as y’all are with tea cakes and we are with coffee cake) but weird when unfamiliar (as vice versa).
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Date: 2025-05-07 07:02 pm (UTC)I’m aware; and in fact at this point coffee cake does NOT require coffee be drunk at that time and can be had whenever. It’s almost like language often drifts like that!
Again: my point is not a lockstep of Exact Times You Eat the Thing or exact mirroring of meaning, but rather about drift in meaning/origin so that the concepts indicated by the phrase are not related to its dominant taste, which is unexceptional if you’re used to it (as y’all are with tea cakes and we are with coffee cake) but weird when unfamiliar (as vice versa).