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Coffee Flavored Breakfast Cereal 299
Musrum writes "Hubbards, the New Zealand based makers of fine breakfast cereals, have launched 'Cafe au Lait', which they describe as "light coffee flavored flakes". This is great, just the thing for Xmas morning, wonderful coffee flavour, not too sweet. What took them so long? The packaging meets all known requirements for political correctness. Brain Health Warning: Do NOT read the enclosed 'Clipboard' newsletter unless you are inured against extreme examples of twee-ness."
Secret Toy Surprise? (Score:4, Funny)
Flavour (Score:5, Interesting)
"Flavour." That's so genteel and British-sounding . . . but it doesn't answer the only important question, dammit!
combine your morning coffee with breakfast(Which is, naturally, does it have -- and if so how much -- caffeine?)
Doesn't everyone eat their Cheerios in out of their coffee cup anyway? Surely I'm not the only one . . .
Re:Flavour (Score:5, Funny)
You are NOT alone!
I eat mine out of this [thinkgeek.com]
And don't call me Shirley.......Leslie Nielson
Re:Flavour (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Flavour (Score:5, Funny)
Jane: Goodyear?
Frank: No, the worst.
Re:Flavour (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Flavour (Score:5, Funny)
Then what's the F***ing point????
Re:Flavour (Score:3, Insightful)
There are those people who enjoy coffee
There are those who enjoy the taste but don't like being wired
There are still others who enjoy the smell, but hate the taste (not met anyone who doesn't enjoy the smell).
I'll agree that I wouldn't eat a coffee flavored breakfast cerial, simply because it just sounds really bad. I would however enjoy a nice coffee air fresh tree for my auto
Re:Flavour (Score:3, Funny)
The nerve of some people.
Cereal with caffeine already exists (Score:2, Interesting)
Anyway, I was eating a bowl of cereal from such a store, and I read the ingredients, and they'd actually added caffeine to the stuff.
I'll check our store tonight and see if I can find the cereal again. It had a vaguely Indian spiritual leaderish name to it. And an Indian vaguely spiritual leader's photo on the back of the bo
Re:Cereal with caffeine already exists (Score:5, Funny)
Ghandi-O's? [1] Krsna Oats? Count Vethathiri-Maharishi-ocula?
The possibilities are endless!
YLFI[1] They're Mahatmalicious!
Re:Letter "U" does not belong in Flavor (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Letter "U" does not belong in Flavor (Score:2, Insightful)
Can we not even have a discussion of coffee-flavored breakfast cereal without anti-American/anti-Bush sentiment?!
Whoops -- forgot where I was posting for a minute. i b dum liek shrub lol
Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know what will be more lame: this story or the fact that Taco will dupe it in 45 minutes..
Re:Hmm... (Score:2)
How about a mirror of it here?
http://www.phule.net/mirrors/coffee-cereal.html [phule.net]
Re:Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Or finding that Post Cereal came up with a decaf-flavoured version of the same thing.
Re:Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, in his defense, he probably hasn't had his coffee-flavored cereal yet...
Re:Hmm... (Score:2)
Let's find out... I just submitted it again verbatim. :-P
Re:Hmm... (Score:2)
Yeah, I think you should definitely switch to decaf.
YLFI
Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:5, Funny)
Had too much to drink the night before? No problem! Use kahlua instead of milk! It goes GREAT with coffee! You're a geek remember ? Multitask! Get your coffee and the hair of the dog at the same time. Plus the alcohol would act as a nice downer to counteract all that caffeine.
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, buy I have trouble believing that'll beat my legendary combination of Nyquil and Dayquil. Go ahead, give it a shot.
**** Spoiler Alert ****
You see new colors and understand Taco's spelling.
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:4, Funny)
Kahlua White Russian (Score:3, Funny)
Help! (Score:2)
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:3, Informative)
Diphenhydramine is an antihistamine that makes most people drowsy, and is the generic name for Benadryl.
Btw, most OTC sleep aids are just diphenhydramine at a higher price. Just buy a cheap box of generic Benadryl and use it for both allergies and to help you sleep.
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:2)
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh man, the Customer Action Shot [thinkgeek.com] for that product is so great...
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:2, Funny)
Dibs on Jolt cereal!
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:3, Insightful)
just drink coffee.
sheesh.
of course, you should be aware of the bad side effects [ems.org] of everyone's favourite beverage and purchase your beans accordingly [javaforjustice.com]
and how to brew that ultimate cup of coffee (Score:5, Interesting)
ok my grandfather used to be a coffee farmer in jamaica so i'm an expert.
The ultimate cup of coffee recipe
Blend a nice dark Roast like Yuban with the light flavor of something like Folgers or my favorite Jamaican blue mountain.
use two filters as the slower straining process allows more flavor.
use one very very big heaping spoon for each cup.
remove the glass thingy (carraffe) and allow the coffee brew to almost fill the part of the coffee machine with the coffee grounds.
Take your mug and put it in place of the carraffe and let the liquid mana fil your cup.
add a pinch of salt, then sweeten to your preference.
put the carraffe back so everyone else can enjoy.
Re:and how to brew that ultimate cup of coffee (Score:2)
Re:and how to brew that ultimate cup of coffee (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:and how to brew that ultimate cup of coffee (Score:2)
Do you know where to get the genuine article? Outside of a roundtrip ticket to jamaica?
Re:and how to brew that ultimate cup of coffee (Score:5, Informative)
To get the ultimate cup, start with some good beans. Here's an outfit that has good prices and pretty decent beans. [portorico.com] You'll see that good coffee doesn't have to be expensive - the Costa Rican varietals are excellent and $5.99/pound. You can also get great coffees at Trader Joe's if there's one near you, or even order pretty decent beans from Dunkin' Donuts.
Both Porto Rico and Trader Joe's offer Kona and Jamaican Blue Mountain that is 100% - none of this crap of adding 2% to crap coffee and calling it what it is not. It is up to individual taste whether it is worth the money for rare coffees - I like them, but I like the more pedestrian beans, too. And they cost about the same as a can of Yuban or Folgers.
Now, notice that I said BEANS. Coffee that is ground goes stale in hours. Don't let anyone tell you different. Don't use beans, don't drink good coffee.
Next, you need a good grinder. The king of home grinders is the Jericho - nearly impossible to find online or off, and they cost up to $200 (couldn't even find picture online). I have one, and it is the greatest present I ever got. However, a decent burr grinder, like this one [zyworld.com], can be had for as little as $30, and is the easiest, best way to grind your coffee - just set it, hit the button, and come back 15 seconds later. It'll do the job, even if it won't last as long as the Jericho (mine has been purring away, twice a day, for 7 years, just like new).
A good drip maker can make good coffee, but the best way is to use the vacuum method. Vacuum pots are typically expensive, hard to clean, and difficult to use - like the Cona [sweetmarias.com], the best. However, Bodum has a line of automatic pots that are a snap all the way around. The Mini Santos [bodumusa.com] is about $60, and it makes terrific coffee at the push of a button - add grounds, water, done. They look kind of cool, too, in an old iMac kind of way.
I guarantee that if you make a modest investment in time and money, you'll be having coffee that any snob would be very happy to drink.
Jonathan
Re: and how to brew that ultimate cup of coffee (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, but I've always meant to ask: what is a 'heaping spoon'? It sounds like something you might use to rearrange compost or scrap...
OTOH, if it's what we here call a heaped spoon(ful), then do you use it when making a packing lunch? Maybe with some boiling egg and chopping liver sandwiches, washed down with some nice icing tea? Or maybe a toasting sandwich topped with grating cheese?
(Or maybe I'd be better off in a padding cell...)
Re:Part of a complete wired breakfast... (Score:2)
Caffine (Score:2)
Re:Caffine (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Caffine (Score:2)
If this line is true to advertising on other food products, then I'd say no.
*Jumps on the I've seen this bandwagon* (Score:5, Funny)
Mikey likes it! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mikey likes it! (Score:2)
I think you're confusing this with the Tomacco Cereal (only available in Springfield, um... I don't know which state that is.)
Re:Mikey likes it! (Score:2)
Great ,Yum! (Score:5, Funny)
Might as well have stale-beer-and-cold-pizza-flavored marmalade for breakfast.
Isn't someone sort of missing the point?
My twist on coffee in the cereal (Score:5, Interesting)
Not exactly a new idea... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not exactly a new idea... (Score:5, Funny)
Not that I have much experience with this kind of thing, but is All-Bran really what people buy their spouses while honeymooning?
Re:Not exactly a new idea... (Score:2)
Re:Not exactly a new idea... (Score:2)
On the other hand, if you have attached your ego to this web site (my sympathies), do make some effort at making constr
Re:Not exactly a new idea... (Score:2)
The saddest thing... (Score:5, Funny)
Is not the questions about black coffee vs. white coffee...
Is not the questions about why this hasn't been done before...
No the saddest thing is why is this on the Slashdot main section...... Money.
Anyone read... (Score:5, Interesting)
Every American should read that book. It's incredible.
Re:Anyone read... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Anyone read... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Anyone read... (Score:2)
It gets worse! The same chemical compounds naturally occur in real cherries, strawberries, etc... to give _them_ their flavor!
uh (Score:3, Informative)
Do your homework.
A little OT... (Score:4, Funny)
Because seriously, some of the geeks I know need more showers, instead of more food...
Italy has this beat... (Score:5, Interesting)
Coffee flavored toothpaste... (and it was tan)...
Tobacco Air Freshener... (Yesa can off stuff you sprayed in the room to get the smell of tobacco. Like a fresh can of pipe tobacco)
Cannabis Incense Sticks... Which for some reason reminds me of "GNU"
Re:Italy has this beat... (Score:2)
Re:Italy has this beat... (Score:2, Funny)
Dude, I'm confused. Are you supposed to use it to cover up when you're smoking potpourri?
Re:Italy has this beat... (Score:2)
I was burning them here in the UK 10-11 years ago. Assuming they're the same thing, they're not actually cannabis, just cannabis-scented. (Yeah, right...)
Just not extreme enough (Score:4, Funny)
sounds soft and soggy, like cornflakes 10 ms after the milk has seen it.
What we need is something gritty and tough like grapenuts. How about coffee nuggets? Just expresso roast coffee beans, pour em in a bowl and add 1/2 & 1/2. Crunchy, filling and will perk you right up if it doesn't give you a heart attack first.
Re:Just not extreme enough (Score:2)
Second Cannable:"Coffee flavoured flakes."
Ingredients - In case of Slashdotting (Score:4, Informative)
An innovative new cereal to combine your morning coffee with breakfast. Light aromatic coffee flavoured wheat flakes combined with crisp rice flakes and yoghurt-coated cornflakes.
Servings per Pack: 17 Serving Size: 30g
Avg. Qty per Serve Avg. Qty per 100g
Energy 465kJ 1550kJ
110kcal 367kcal
Protein 3.4g 11.3g
Fat - Total 0.9g 3g
- Saturated 0.3g 1g
Carbohydrate 19.6g 65.3g
- Sugars 5.6g 18.7g
Sodium 93mg 310mg
Ingredients
Coffee Flavoured Wheat Flakes (77%) [Wheat, Sugar, Barley Malt Extract, Coffee Flavour, Salt, Emulsifier (471)], Rice Flakes [Rice, Wheat Flour, Wheat Germ, Wheat, Barley Malt Extract, Sugar, Salt, Flavour, Emulsifier (471), Natural Colour (Carotene)], Yoghurt-Coated Cornflakes [Cornflakes, Yoghurt Powder, Skim Milk Powder, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)]. May Contain Traces of Peanut and Other Nuts.
Allergens:
Wheat Gluten Soy Dairy Peanuts Nuts
Re:Ingredients - In case of Slashdotting (Score:2, Informative)
Croatian Parents from Lika "Kava i Kruh" ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Man I grew up on turkish coffee poured into warmed milk poured over old bread. Trying to tell her that this is not normal in Australia sort of half worked. I finally persuaded her to buy corn flakes
That was in the 70's. My mother had the same in the 50's and her mother
Moral to this: It's not a new idea!
New Zaeland... (Score:2, Interesting)
I just wanted to ask why we hear recently so much about New Zaeland on the news?
(perhaps someone is silently planning to overthrow the government [google.com]? Hah, I knew it C.S.Levis will do [scoop.co.nz] this
Re:New Zaeland... (Score:3, Informative)
'Cause it's the best bloody country in the world - mate.
Re:New Zaeland... (Score:2)
Drugged out white boy (Score:3, Funny)
I think we need a war on brandnames.
Re:Drugged out white boy (Score:2)
/.'ed (Score:3, Funny)
caffeinated cereal (Score:3, Funny)
Futurama (Score:5, Funny)
"I'm never gonna get used to the 31st century. Cafenated bacon, baconated grapefruit, Admiral Crunch?"
"Well, if you don't like that you can always try some Archduke Chocula."
This cereal needs a mascot (Score:2)
Sheesh.. (Score:2)
I like this trend for /. stories (Score:5, Funny)
I'm definitely looking forward to hearing that Tampax have released an update to Tampax 4.5, or about the latest advances in bath salts.
Coffee flavored breakfast cereal? WHAT. THE. FUCK. TACO?
Re:I like this trend for /. stories (Score:2)
Personally, I'm glad Slashdot has a good mix of compputer, science, geek humor and geek lifestyle stories. Personally I can't stand the case mod stories (just doesn't interest me, for some reason), but I've found skipping over them, rather than reading them and complaining, works well for me.
Re:I like this trend for /. stories (Score:2)
I agree with all this, and find case mod stories similarly grating, but I don't complain about those either, as they are nerdy stories.
This, however, is not really for 'nerds' in any sense. Wiping your ass is an ever
Nicotine flakes (Score:5, Funny)
You don't quite understand how much your stuff can be permeated by smoke while living with a smoker until you move in with someone who has never smoked. My mom was a heaver smoker, and I lived with her through college. Now on my own, I moved in with a friend who happened to come from a smoke-free household. I brought a bunch of my stuff with me, including a bucket of Kellogg's Corn Flakes. One morning, my friend sniffed around and asked, "What are those? Nicotine flakes?!?"
Wow, I took another bite and gave it a good taste, and sure enough, I understood what he smelled. Living with a smoker for so long, you just get used to it.
I then had a wonderfully evil thought... what if the tobacco companies latched onto the concept of nicotine flakes?
Marlboro Flakes - curiously addictive cereal.
-ez
I still say (Score:2)
There's nothing like the real thing - one shot of espresso in 12 oz. of milk. Low caffeine mind you, but the taste is to die for. He can keep his coffee-flavored flakes.
Re:I still say (Score:2)
When that quad shot latte isn't enough for you, and you don't want to waste your stomach volume on non-cafinated liquid.
Cereal Recipes (Score:5, Interesting)
-JT
Re:Cereal Recipes (Score:2)
milk? (Score:3, Funny)
Now I can poop even faster! (Score:3, Funny)
Hopefully they'll make a version of coffee cereal with chocolate or marshmallow laxatives. The prize inside of the box could be some sort of promotional Texas neck-tie with hobbits on it
Too Slow! (Score:5, Funny)
Coffee Flavored Breakfast..... (Score:3, Funny)
It just seems a little silly, like bubblegum flavored candy.
I see no caffeine here (Score:3, Funny)
Since I dont keep milk around (Score:2)
It works.
Other Fun Cereals (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Caffeinated Flakes... (Score:3, Funny)
The same thing that happens when you have 10 cups of coffee: SplatterBum(tm)
Re:Caffeinated Flakes... (Score:2)
But the bran... I think they would balance out and you would have frequent well formed movements.
Somehow I am rememinded of the road to wellville...
Re:Caffeinated Flakes... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Im a da suck (Score:2, Funny)
Re:huh? (Score:2)
Maybe it's just that I don't live either in New Zealand or the US... but what the hell is twee-ness?
Speaking as a Midwestern Merrikin, I don't have the foggiest either. It's either from another region of the USA or another country. Heck, so far as I know, it could be Martain. ;)