Coffee Milk: Rhode Island's official state drink.

Coffee milk is simply milk mixed with coffee syrup. Some people pronounce it as one word: coffeemilk.
The origin of coffee milk

No one knows for sure, but coffee milk may have its origin with Rhode Island's Italian immigrants. According to Nancy Verde Barr, author of the cookbook We Called It Macaroni: An American Heritage of Southern Italian Cooking, "In Italy they often made a bitter coffee with grain. The brew was then heavily sweetened. The children drank what the parents did. The tradition of sweetening continued here…"