I have just experienced one of the foulest cups of coffee ever put to my lips.  Unfortunately it was in a very, very local cafe!  What on earth do some cafe & restaurant owners think they are doing by only serving coffee with skimmed or semi-skimmed milk?  The coffee I just had was probably OK before the person who served me laced it with a dose of chalky water (which, after all is what skimmed milk is!).  I wouldn't dream of drinking such rubbish in my own home so why should I have to go along with someone elses disgusting preferences when I dine out?  At least the practice of only offering margerine instead of butter seems less prevalant now than it did a few years ago. I couldn't begin to total up the number of times I have had to explain to a young waiter/waitress who has probably never tasted the delight of real butter, that it doesn't matter what they call it whether it's Flora, UtterlyButtery or Stork, it is all chemically treated oil and is generically MARGARINE!!  I have seen youngsters totally gobsmacked when finding out that the only reason these things exist is because of clever marketing men who realised there was no future for margarine after the end of WW11 and paid for some universities to come up with some extremely favourable but suspect  reports as to the muck's health value thereby perpetuating the manufacture of what had simply been 'butter substitute'.