# Do you like coffee creams? Why are they so unpopular? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 30, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334 "2004-11-30T15:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/1 "2004-11-30T15:27:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/2 "2004-11-30T15:33:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Roscoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@Captain\_Roscoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Roscoe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/3 "2004-11-30T15:35:44Z")
I love coffee creams, but I agree that very few do. The strange thing is, I really don’t like coffee much. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/4 "2004-11-30T15:52:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/5 "2004-11-30T17:28:26Z")
Send All Unwanted Coffee Creams To Me - I Love 'em!!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alectrona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Alectrona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alectrona)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/6 "2004-11-30T17:28:34Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/7 "2004-11-30T19:56:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/8 "2004-11-30T20:06:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/9 "2004-11-30T20:13:10Z")
I’ll take some unwanted coffee creams, too. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-coffee-creams-why-are-they-so-unpopular/277334/10 "2004-11-30T20:53:17Z")
Love coffee creams, their among my top favourites to get in the mixed chocolates. (Now the orange and strawberry creames on the other hand…) > [@Alectrona](#): > > 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. I think I know what you’re talking about, but I haven’t seen them in years since we used to buy them at the gas station across from school. Sorry.