So I was eating a bag of Revels* and offered one to a work colleague. “Hmm… as long as I don’t get a coffee one!” she says. A quick straw poll revealed that nobody liked the coffee creams. They are always the ones left behind in a box of chocolates. Now this is great for me - I love coffee creams. Scavenging through neglected boxes of chocs at Christmas usually results in a haul of neglected coffee centres.
Coffee is a popular flavour, as the worldwide dominance of Starbucks testifies. So why does everybody hate coffee creams?
chocolates with assorted centres: caramel, solid chocolate, Malteser, orange, coffee and raisin. In a bag. Formerly included peanuts in place of raisin, and thus source of much “Revel Roulette”-based fun for allergy sufferers.
I don’t like real coffee either, but coffee flavored candy has a really unpleasant after-taste, so you taste it for quite a while after you took a bite into that evil, realized what it was, and spit it out.
I like coffee, but I can’t stand coffee-flavored anything. To me, coffee is meant to be hot, liquid, and bitter, with just enough sugar added to make it palatable (about one spoon/packet per cup). That eliminates coffee creams, coffee-flavored ice cream, and even iced coffee. The occassional vanilla cappucino or espresso is pretty good, though.
Homer moment Mmmm… Coffee flavoured things… I love coffee flavoured things rather than coffee. I LOVE coffee ice cream especially. Does anyone know the name of this coffee flavoured hard sweet? It’s rectangular and brown and… oooh well I ate some but I didn’t catch the name of it… It’s in this black wrapper and they’re about 2.5cmx1.5cm in size.
And you can send all unwanted Coffee Creams to me, too.
I love coffee-flavored things, especially coffee ice cream. I’m not particularly fond of Starbucks (in Southern California, we have a chain of coffee shops known as The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, that I prefer to go to), but Starbucks Ice Cream? I can eat a whole quart in a sitting if left to my own devices.
I love coffee creams, but then again I also love finely-ground coffee beans sprinkled generously over vanilla ice cream, which seems to give some people pause.
