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OP Maybe it is a New York City regional thing, then, since I grew up 30 miles from New York. But it's not uncommon down on the Jersey Cape, either, or in the Philadelpia area. I would say, though, that the "and" has come to be emphasized, verbally, as in "coffee-AND." In fact, it's also a popular descriptive of a light breakfast buffet lfor business meetings, etc. What did they have? They had coffee-and. Or, we had coffee-and. And when working as a banquet waiter that was the set-up designation for a light buffet consisting of coffee, tea (hi Zed!), juice, pastry, donuts, and bagels. You'd ask, "what's the breakfast set-up for this meeting?" (or room) And the manager would say "coffee-and."
And, also, at the morning coffee break folks might say, "Time for some coffee-and."
And this has been around for awhile (or at least since I've been a little kid no, I ain't doin' the math!. So is it in the OED, OEDers?
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