While looking at Millstone coffee beans at my local gourmet coffee shop (i.e., Wal-Mart) I saw what looks like some sort of sweet sugar-on-a-stick thing accompanying a cup of French roast coffee. A pic can be seen here:
http://www.millstone.com/images/pages/ourcoffees/FrenchRoast.jpg
Does anyone know what this item is and/or where it might be found?
Thanks.
It’s basically a stick with “rock candy” on it, meant to be stirred and dissolved into a cup of coffee or an espresso drink as sweetener. I was served a capuccino this way in a slightly uppity restaurant recently.
I’m not sure if there’s an official term for it.
Thanks, VCO3. (And I thought it was to be licked or sucked on between sips.) :smack:
Anyone know where to find 'em?
Goddamn Jimmie, this is some serious gourmet shit.
Me an’ Vincent woulda been satisfied with freeze-dried Tasters Choice.
You spring this gourmet fuckin’ shit on us. What flavor is this?
I used to eat those things on their own when I was a kid. It’s a wonder I still have all my teeth.
Superbamundo! Damn, I love this place! Ya posts yer question; ya gets yer answer…and like right now, too!
Hang in there, CMC. You’re still just a liddle wet behind the ears there, pal. Once youse been in 'dis business as long as me , ya begins to get a liddle dough and culture…know whut I mean?
Thanks. 
Man, you blew your line,
I don’t need you to tell me how good my coffee is.
I’m the one who buys it, I know how fuckin’ good it is.
When Bonnie goes shoppin, she buys shit.
I buy the gourmet expensive stuff 'cause when I drink it, I wanna taste it.
But what’s on my mind at this moment isn’t the coffee in my kitchen, it’s the sugar stick in my cup.
:: hangs head in shame ::
I’m such a tyro!
I’ll bet you could make them yourself if you were so inclined. I used to love rock candy as a kid. It was usually on a string. I remember seeing recipes to make it yourself, but I never tried it.
You could take a food-safe wooden stick like a barbecue skewer, make the rock candy on the blunt end, trim off the pointy end, and decorate the top with something. You can get pretty beads at a craft store for cheap. That would look cool.
Would hot glue be sufficiently food safe to attach the decoration? At least in a non-commercial item.
I think you would actually “grow” the crystals on the stick. I don’t like hot glue between my teeth!
Sorry! I misread where you said “decoration”. I’m still on my first cup. :o
What’s the professed advantage of this over spoonfuls of sugar? I mean, you can’t exactly measure how much you dissolve, can you?
According to the descriptions in crowmanyclouds’ link, they’re “Elegant and fun”.
As to measuring the amount, I suppose you just keep on swizzlin’ till it tastes sweet enough.
My Russian grandfather used to put a sugar cube between his front teeth and sip his coffee through it–apparently an “early adopter”…
I understand this was actually customary at some point in time in a lot of Europe.
Yes, elegant and fun is the thing.
And thanks for the suggestions re making them myself. Sounds like fun, and at around a buck a pop for the store-bought ones, it would save some money too!
