"That is not something we offer."

How did so many restaurants get the false idea that it’s elegant to not serve cream for the coffee? This peculiarity usually happens in French bistros or otherwise pretentious restaurants. You have a pleasant meal, and order coffee. The server brings it along with a pitcher of milk. If you ask for cream he or she tells you in the most superior manner that they don’t have cream. Their sneer (much like the one shown here) suggests that you are low brow, low rent, and just plain common to even make such a request. You, meantime, are furious. Because, to you, coffee is the final act of the meal, and coffee with milk is just not satisfying. If you had known that they didn’t serve cream, you would never have come to the restaurant in the first place. If you suggest that they might have heavy cream for use in their desserts, they will angrily and begrudgingly bring it to you. Where did these boobs get this idea that cream was not upper class and not even wanted?  If one goes into any Starbucks, you will see that the half and half pitcher gets a lot of use from people of all social classes. Sadly in the many misguided restaurants who eschew cream, most cream lovers accept the milk and say nothing. Not I. Definitely not I.