Thom 🌈

[prisma jay]

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[glad sequoia]

"au X" / "à la X" / "aux X" describes the main flavor or ingredient that that the main item contains, other than what the item is normally made up of.

So for example, "un gâteau au chocolat" means "a chocolate cake". It's a cake, made up of what cakes are usually made of up, but it also contains chocolate as its most noteworthy flavor or ingredient.

Therefore, "chocolat au lait" means "milk chocolate" - as in chocolate that contains quite a bit of milk.

And "lait au chocolat" means "chocolate milk" - as in milk that contains quite a bit of chocolate.
— https://www.reddit.com/r/learnfrench/comments/yp5wlx/i_keep_confusing_chocolat_au_lait_and_lait_au/#:~:text=Therefore%2C "chocolat au lait",quite a bit of milk.

think of it as: chocolate AT (in) milk not the milk of the chocolate

[exotic canopy]

Okay but soymilk is milk of the soy

Oh wait

You explained that

[glad sequoia]

milk of the soy

[exotic canopy]

So soymilk is milk of the soy as it's made of soy

[glad sequoia]

I would presume so, yes

[exotic canopy]

But chocolate soymilk is chocolate at the milk of the soy

Since it's made of soy but flavored as chocolate

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That helps

[glad sequoia]

yes