A capped glass milk bottle standing on a small wooden crate against a mint-green background.

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Napoleon Dynamite

I see you’re drinking 1%. Is that ’cause you think you’re fat? ‘Cause you’re not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker notices a choice of low-fat milk and awkwardly guesses it reflects worry about weight. The reassurance insists the person is not fat and could happily pick the richer kind, though the phrasing is clumsy and a little intrusive, which drives the comedy.

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