This past weekend I had the pleasure of tasting the instant coffee at my ladyfriend’s office. Check out this fancy machine with its futuristic blue lights. It looks like alien lasers are getting blasted into my paper cup.
The coffee comes in these cupcake stumps and her office has Nestle’s Coffee-mate creamers instead of the International Delight variety at my office. If our faithful readers will recall, one of the nice perks about drinking Flavia every single day is that other types of coffee will taste so much better, even if the other type of coffee is another brand of instant coffee. This Keurig combination is definitely worlds better than what I’ve subjected myself to on a daily basis here in the office.
To start, the coffee is from Paul Newman’s company, Newman’s Own Organics, and therefore it is automatically awesome. People a generation ahead of me will probably conjure up words like “cool” or “suave” or “sexy” whenever they think of Paul Newman. To me, he’s just “awesome” mostly because of his role as Reggie Dunlop in Slap Shot. (Note: Yes, I realize the movie came out in 1977, hence before I was born, but this was my first Paul Newman movie which I watched when I was kid.)
The coffee tastes smooth, there’s no bitter aftertaste, and before I know it my cup is empty – all signs of great instant coffee at the office.
The French vanilla creamer by Coffee-mate is stronger than the International Delight creamer, if that’s any piece of information you think is worth remembering.
My only problem with this coffee is that although the package claims it is “Extra Bold,” there is nothing “bold” about this coffee except for the fact that it claims to be certified organic. The only bold thing about this coffee is that it makes me want to “put on the foil” before going to work.
In tribute of the fact that I continue to refuse to believe that Paul Newman is no longer alive, instead of using our traditional Dos Equis Most Interesting Man logo to indicate good coffee, I’m changing things up a bit today.
Enjoy your coffee.
