'We can buy cream for whipping, or "half-and-half" for coffee (or for cereal if we want more butterfat than the milk).'

There is now a list of ingredients in cream products other than milk. It has turned me off cream completely. The following is an example.

Milk
Cream
Carboxymethyl cellulose
Guar gum
Carob bean gum
Mono and diglycerides
Carrageenan