you ever wonder if picard barked out his usual order of "TEA, EARL GREY, HOT"
and the replicator maybe misheard him once and didn't pick up "TEA", so it fully formed a sexy guy with an Earldom whose family name was Grey, who was presumably just as confused, baffled, and alarmed as the captain was?
or if the reason he always says "tea", first is BECAUSE of this exact reason? and the first time he just said, "Earl Grey, hot."?