# Coke au lait? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [November 26, 2004, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733 "2004-11-26T10:19:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/1 "2004-11-26T10:19:18Z")
I’ve been thinking about Coke au lait ever since I saw [Hatt Baby](http://the.dangeorge.com:5191/notmystuff/movies/hatten.swf) a few years ago. It really sounds appealing to me but also sounds like one of those things that could go either way. I grew up in a house where we **did not** waste milk (or much of anything really, but for some reason milk in particular was sacred) and I seem to be a bit hung up on that still so I’m scared to try it. Is it an actual drink that is popular in other cultures? A google of “Coke au lait” only turns up references to Hatt Baby but if it is popular in other countries I’m sure it would likely be spelled differently. So has anyone ever tried it? Anyone interested in trying it in the name of . . . science? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/2 "2004-11-26T11:09:04Z")
sounds terrible to me, but then im not that adventurous when it comes to mixing random food products. My preferences seem to have been set by what I was fed as a child. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/3 "2004-11-26T11:13:12Z")
I have to go pick up some milk tomorrow… perhaps I will pick up a 2 litre of Coke and give it a whirl… Couldn’t be much worse than, say, a root beer float? I mean, that’s ice cream (dairy) in fizzy soda… mm… creamy cola… I will report back tomorrow afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/4 "2004-11-26T11:18:55Z")
It sounds like a [Coke float](http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1813,157188-243201,00.html), after it’s melted and without the added sugar. I don’t think it bad, just strange. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/5 "2004-11-26T11:23:53Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Couldn’t be much worse than, say, a root beer float? I mean, that’s ice cream (dairy) in fizzy soda… mm… creamy cola… Those were my thoughts too. In fact, I had forgotten about Coke au lait for awhile and then thought about it a few days ago while having a root beer float. My only worry is that milk isn’t sweet or frozen and coke isn’t root beer. > [@Anastasaeon](#): > > I will report back tomorrow afternoon. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/6 "2004-11-26T11:26:28Z")
Hmm… when I try this out, I’ll try some with plain milk, and I’ll try another with some sugar added. I might even draw some pictures! Or… at least write down the dubious “recipes” I use 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/7 "2004-11-26T11:38:44Z")
You’re going to hell. (ew.) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/8 "2004-11-26T12:01:57Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Hmm… when I try this out, I’ll try some with plain milk, and I’ll try another with some sugar added. > > I might even draw some pictures! Or… at least write down the dubious “recipes” I use 😃 Hey we love your type around here. I’m cheerin’ for ya. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/9 "2004-11-26T12:10:12Z")
Laverne DeFasio! Seven replies and no one has mentioned Laverne DeFasio! I can’t believe it! 😕 She came to mind _immediately_ when I read the Thread Title (Sure, she used _Pepsi_- but the principle is the same.) ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/10 "2004-11-26T13:30:17Z")
Me too. As soon as I saw the thread title, I thought of Laveren whining about a Milk 'n Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/11 "2004-11-26T14:40:00Z")
I tried milk + Pepsi when I was a kid. Of course I got the idea from _Laverne & Shirley_. It wasn’t half bad. The drink I mean. Remember the episode when L and S met their doppelgangers? The “evil” Laverne drank Coke and milk. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/12 "2004-11-26T22:14:51Z")
Okay, here it is… it was relatively short, but eventful. Of course, this is just according to my tastes and preferences, as always, YMMV. Well, to start, I went down to the 7 Eleven to get the basics - milk, 2% (because I’m watching my waistline), and coca cola “classic”… along with a bacon cheeseburger and one of those little tubs of Hagen Daas ice cream (also because I’m watching my waistline… grow, apparently). So, those are my [base ingredients](http://img98.exs.cx/img98/5327/cokeaulait1.jpg) , 2% milk and CC classic. First, I try equal parts coke and milk. What a lot of foam! The foam tastes… just foamy. Kind of bland and bubbly. It makes me burp. Then I drink the actual liquid part. It was [nasty](http://img98.exs.cx/img98/9003/cokeaulait2.jpg), Miss Jackson. It just… it tasted like milk with a nasty hint of cola… it wasn’t pleasant in any way. So, I assumed my problem was far too much milk. I toned it down to 1/4 cup of milk to 1 cup of coke. Not bad - there was some [potential](http://img98.exs.cx/img98/1843/cokeaulait3.jpg). Then I remembred everyone mentioning sugar. “Ah, _sugar_!” said I. Sugar is the trick here, it seems. I repeated my 1/4 cup milk/1 cup cola mix, and added a heaping tablespoon of sugar to this mix. There is a lot of foam going on here. You do have towork past that foam to get to the liquid bit. Of course if you let it set for a few moments, the foam will turn to liquid again, but who has that kind of time? This is research, after all. I could be on the brink of some amazing discovery. When sugar was added, [this happens](http://img98.exs.cx/img98/857/cokeaulait4.jpg). (that’s right folks, fuller thicker hair, eyelashes that could pick a lock, and a tongue long enough to lick your eyelids. Still didn’t enhance my ability to draw, though, sadly). To be honest, I’d say it was an aquired taste. The end result tasted like a creamy cola drink… which is pretty much how it sounds. I didn’t find the carbonation in the end was very noticable. It certainly isn’t flat soda, I’m drinking it now with my delicious, healthy bacon cheeseburger (oops, there goes another button…) I didn’t mind it. It would be something like a novelty drink to me, though, like… like an iced coffee. Or a root beer float 😃 Not something I’d drink every day. I’d recommend you try it - you might like it. I have a coupon for a 2 litre of Pepsi, maybe I’ll give the Laverne Special a whirl. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/13 "2004-11-26T22:42:08Z")
**Anastasaeon** - I was laughing out loud - hard - while reading your post and following along with the pictures. Please start posting more. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/14 "2004-11-26T22:49:07Z")
Add vodka and kahlua to your coke and lait, and you have a tasty paralyzer. At least, I recall them being tasty back in they late 80s when they were often on a dirt cheap special at one of my local bars until 10 p.m. for fifty cents each or some ridiculous price. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/15 "2004-11-26T23:01:43Z")
Milk and coke is a family tradition here for breaking your fast on Yom Kippur. It is easier and faster than the alternative: a cup of OJ followed by coffee. You get your sugar, you get your electrolytes, you get your caffeine. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/16 "2004-11-26T23:58:13Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > **Anastasaeon** - I was laughing out loud - hard - while reading your post and following along with the pictures. Please start posting more. Posting more words or more pictures? I liked drawing the pictures. 😃 Research is _fun_. I don’t know why I was so against it in school. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/17 "2004-11-27T03:04:18Z")
Good grief, **Anastasaeon** , that was brilliantly funny. The “nasty” illustration was absolutely genius. Naaasty, ooh nasty boys don’t mean thing (ooh ooh ooh) ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/18 "2004-11-27T03:21:54Z")
**Anastasaeon** : Next time, dissolve the sugar in the milk, and then add the cola to the milk. That should reduce your foamage. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/19 "2004-11-27T04:09:39Z")
I tried it once as a kid, inspired by Laverne. Well, cola and milk, anyway, I don’t remember what brand I used. It didn’t taste bad, but it didn’t really seem to fit into a niche: When I’m in the mood for milk, I’ll drink milk, and when I’m in the mood for cola, I’ll drink cola, but I’m not often in the mood for both. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733/20 "2004-11-27T04:17:12Z")
Ya know what I bet would be better? Vanilla Coke au lait!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-au-lait/276733.md?page=2)