I Don't Really Like Coffee

 

When I was younger, even a teenager, I hated coffee. Today I can drink it if it's offered, to be polite, but I would never choose it. I'd prefer tea any day, and hot chocolate every day. I feel the same way about most coffee candies too. While I'll eat them, it's rare for me to hunt them out. When I do appreciate them, I tend to look for ways that it doesn't really taste like coffee. It could be that it's nice and creamy, or in some cases it kind of tastes like chocolate.

Check out this coffee review, that I bought kind of by accident.

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It's Time For A New Episode Of In Hindsight, Today We Look At The Coffee Crisp

In this episode of In Hindsight I eat the classic Canadian candy bar, the Coffee Crisp. It's been a really long time since I wrote the Coffee Crisp review on Candy Critic, and it's even been a while since I've eaten a Coffee Crisp just for fun. This is just a bar that I rarely ever crave unless it's sitting in front of me.

Click here to read the original Coffee Crisp review.

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Candy In The Media - Make It Rain Cotton Candy

This is probably the most unique and beautiful way to sweeten your coffee.

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Chris Drinks A Coffee Coke

Rather than just taste test this new Coffee Coca-Cola, Chris decides to see if this drink has any harmful effects on him. After chugging the whole can, Chris tries to site still for 10 whole minutes. Needless to say things start to get shaky after the first 5.

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Candy In The Media

This isn't exactly candy, unless you consider coffee candy, but it's a pretty interesting look at how Hollywood deals with on-screen coffee drinkers.

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Candy In the Media

Have you ever wondered how many Doritos it would take to kill you?  Well wonder no longer.

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O K Cup?

For a few years now I've had a fascination with the whole pod coffee revolution.  My curiosity has been on the level that I've always wanted to try one out for a little while, but not enough that I wanted to invest in actually buying a machine.  My problem with buying a machine comes from two different problems.  First of all they're not cheap, they can cost several hundreds of dollars for the larger professional units. Even the cheaper unites are around 100 to 150 dollars.  Since I don't drink coffee these prices don't really sound like something in my range.

My second problem with the pod coffee machines is the environmental one.  For each cup of coffee you're throwing away a small plastic cup, a miniature filter, and a foil lid.  For each pot of coffee you're throwing away about one 50th of a tin or bag that the coffee comes in, and a small often bio degradable coffee filter.  Let's not forget that the coffee can you bought your coffee in can also be re-used, while these pod cups are pretty useless, and in the case of the Kuerig destroyed with holes punched in them.  I guess I can feel a little better knowing that there are special cups you can buy that allow you to make your own drinks, and these cups are completely re-usable (but more about these later).

So needless to say, while I've been curious about these pod machines, I've never thought about actually buying one for the house.  This past weekend however, something rather fortuetous happened at the Stewart household.  Allison entered a charity auction, and won, the first prize was a Kuerig machine, with 12 sample pods.  It was a great day at the Stewart house when she brought it home, and the first thing we did was crack it open and see what pods we got.  Allison was very happy to see that most of the pods consisted of some sort of coffee drink.  Of the twelve pods we got, two were tea, one was hot chocolate, and the rest were coffee... sort of.  Allison doesn't consider decaf coffee to be real coffee, so there may have only been 7 or 8 actual coffee pods.

We spent our first few days with the machine testing it out and sampling everything we could.  Since I don't really like coffee, Allison had a lot more to sample than I did.  For the most part she was happy enough with the coffee choice, however according to her some were much better than others.  I on the other hand had a very different selection of drinks to try.  First I decided to try the Starbucks chai latte, just to get an idea for what I was sampling.  I'm not sure if I've ever had a Starbucks chai latte, but if they're anything like this pod drink I don't ever plan to.  It basically tasted like sweet powdered milk, with some kind of spice.  It was pretty awful.

The real pod I wanted to sample was the Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate.  I'm a big fan of hot chocolate, in fact I'd say that it's probably one of my favorite hot drinks.  The problem with hot chocolate for me is that you can make it well, but you can also make it very poorly.  In a hot chocolate I look for a nice strong chocolate flavour, but it also has to be smooth.  I don't want the sweet and the milk to overpower.  Instead the sugar and milk should only be there to smooth out the bitterness of the chocolate.  I also can't stand grit in my hot chocolate.  If you're going to use a powder, you better stir that hot chocolate really well.

Unfortunately the Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate didn't cut it for me at all.  Fortunately it wasn't gritty at all, unfortunately it was just a cup of sweet, with no cocoa at all.  Ever worse was the fact that the sugar tasted so artificial, and the milk was almost completely tasteless.  It was like drinking a cup of fake sugar that was dyed brown.

This bad experiences isn't going to turn me off of these pod machines though.  I've heard that K-Cup pods have several different hot chocolate flavours, including a Ghirardelli, and possibly a Cadbury pod.  While Swiss Miss is a fairly well known hot chocolate company, I don't think it's know for having the quality chocolate of a Ghirardellior a Cadbury.  So I'll try a few more pods, and see how it goes.

I'm also interested in the re-usable pod concept.  Allison and I have ordered a pair of environmentally friendly plastic pods that we can use over and over again.  My goal is to try and figure out exactly how these things work, and eventually make my own homemade pods.  Once I have a few recipes down, I'll post them on this blog so you can make some home made pods for yourself.

While I'm not sold on the K-Cup after my first sample, I haven't given up.  Let me know if you have any recipe ideas or Pods that you think I should try.

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Stuff I Want To Try

Sasso Bar - Sasso Candy - Finally a candy bar for grownups, now I can feel more mature... right? - Click here to learn more about this treat.

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Candy News

Do you like at home science projects?  How do you feel about tasty treats?  Well you might want to check this out.

The trend in food is "big, bold flavours", but according to this article, it might be ruining our ability to enjoy the more subtle ones.

Have you ever wondered why carbonated drinks taste better?

I'm generally OK with food science, and even OK with many "Fankenfoods", but I'm not sure how I feel about berries that taste like bubblegum.

The guy that created the Cronut is at it again, and this time it involves coffee and waffles.

If you're into old school weaponry and marshmallows, have I got the perfect Christmas gift for you.

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Friday Candy Video

A long time ago I did an experiment where I tested the strength of M&Ms.  I microwaved them, burnt them, set them on a hot CPU, and lots of other destructive fun things.  The problem is I didn't have access to a super high speed camera.  After watching the video above, I'm thinking I may want to revisit this idea of destroying M&Ms, and all I need is a friend with a high speed camera.

I discovered this video here.

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Friday's Candy Links

According to a study, coffee might actually make people happier.  I think it's more like, coffee makes people not feel like killing other morning people first thing in the morning, instead of just happy.

Here's 11 interesting facts about food, like how many cocoa beans it takes to buy a rabbit, and when forks started to become trendy.

I know I don't normally publish recipes on this site, but "34 Insanely Simple Two-Ingredient Recipes" is perfect for lazy gluttons like myself.

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Stuff I Want To Try

Mocha Coconut  - Lindt - It's really great to discover new candy flavour combinations, and Coconut and Coffee sounds interesting. - Click here to learn more about this treat.

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Thursday's Candy Links

So how's that Red Bull, cup of coffee, or Mountain Dew?  How many have you had?  Ever wonder how many it would take to put you 6 feet under?

Speaking of coffee, why does the outside of a coffee stain look darker than the center?

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Friday's Candy Links

Candy flavoured beers are not new, but beer flavoured candy made by people who make candy flavoured beer, that's news.

Is it blasphemy in the UK to eat the likeness of a royal?  I wonder if William and Kate know?

Here's a new expensive coffee trend with a hint of chocolate and mint, oh... it's also passed through the bowls of an elephant.

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Friday's Candy Links

Hey Canada, Courtney pointed out to me that there's some kind of salmonella scare with nut spreads.  That means no Nutella for you tonight.

7-11 is letting you vote on whom you think will win the election, in the last 3 years their coffee poll has been close to the real results by about 1%.

Learn how to flip food in a pan, the suggested practice material, cheese balls... I wonder how they would taste fried up?

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Candy Art - Hula Hoops and Coffee

There is a great deal of debate about how "random" this picture actually is.  I'm willing to guess that there is a possibility that it was either Photoshoped or that it was designed by one of those crazy baristas that can make just about any image in a coffee.  Either way it looks really cool, and it begs the question, what does a Hula Hoop dipped in coffee taste like?

I found the image here, and there's more information about the guy who discovered it.

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It's National Coffee Ice Cream Day!!!

I personally don't understand why people would want to ruin ice cream by adding coffee to it, but who am I to judge.  I guess I could see merit in coffee ice cream if it also gave you a boost of caffeine as well, but for me the coffee flavour just doesn't work in ice cream form.

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Thursday's Candy Links

"Candy truck goes up in flames on I-80"... NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

How dangerous is that cup of coffee you're drinking... could it kill you?

When chocolate is warm, does it taste better? According to science, it might.

So it appears that god wants me to eat candy, I've found the sign.

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Stuff I Want To Try

Dark Chocolate + Intelligentsia Coffee - Made by: Askinosie Chocolate - Why: I'm tired and a chocolate/coffee kick would do me some good. - Click here to learn more about this treat.

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It's National Coffee Ice Cream Day

This is pretty much how my day is going to go.

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