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Coffee Flavored Breakfast Cereal
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."
Now we know where New Zealand's Bruce Simpson has hidden his cruise missle!
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"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 . . .
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
I don't know what will be more lame: this story or the fact that Taco will dupe it in 45 minutes..
Trolling is a art,
First shower with the ThinkGeek ShowerShock then sit down to a nice bowl of Coffee cereal.
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.
Tastes like coffee, thats nice, but let's cut to the bottom line: Does it have as much or more caffine as a strong cup of coffee?
Yeah, I noticed this the other day when I was slaving away serving customers. I was so tired it was all I could do not to just open the box and start eating right then and there at the checkout. This is the food geeks have been waiting for! Now we have caffeine in all forms, drink, cereal, even tablets!
What happens if you eat ten bowls of them?
And he's started having 9 bowls a day.
This'll go nicely with my other morning staples, near-beer and nicotine-less cigarettes.
Might as well have stale-beer-and-cold-pizza-flavored marmalade for breakfast.
Isn't someone sort of missing the point?
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That's kinda funny because a few months ago I discovered the cappucino flavored soy milk. I used to use vanilla or chocolate soy milk with my plain cereal then found the joys of the coffee flavored stuff. It made plain Wheaties much more enjoyable to eat. Yum!
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I distinctly remember buying a box of Cappucino-flavored All-Bran for my wife when we were honeymooning in Cancun. It was... well, about as tasty as All-Bran gets.
Is not the questions about caffeine content...
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.
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Anyone read Fast Food Nation? There's a fascinating article on the chemicals the "flavor industry" uses. There's a chemical compound that smells just like a grilled burger, fresh cherries, etc. Making cereal taste like coffee is probably easy, but it probably doesn't actually contain any coffee. You didn't think that strawberry shake from McD's containes strawberries, did you?
Every American should read that book. It's incredible.
Not exactly on topic, but speaking of combining coffee with unrelated items, you gotta love caffeinated soap!
Because seriously, some of the geeks I know need more showers, instead of more food...
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
O.K., coffee flavor is good, but what about caffeine? ...........must......have.......CAFFEINE!
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I've been pouring coffee on my frosted flakes for years. What else are you going to do when you're out of milk? :-)
While living in Italy I had come across the following items..
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"
For that full-on caffeine hit, any geek knows you have to take your coffee strong and black. #Cough# #Cough# Chokes on cereal before collapsing on the kitchen floor, tragically losing an eye on the sharp edge of the toast rack on the way down.
--This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
Bleh, this is boring. Coffee flavoured flakes.
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.
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
Cafe au Lait
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
Kava i Kruh = Coffee and Bread. The traditional breakfast of my mothers village in Croatia.
... over which she poured the coffee & warm milk ...
...
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!
I hope this is not too particularly off-topic...
;)
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? Hah, I knew it C.S.Levis will do this
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#\ @ ? Colonize Mars
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Want caffeine? Do some Coke, like I do.
Ok. I've got my caffeine cereal and my caffeine mints. I've got some nicotine water and Cocaine playing on the stereo. I'm wearing a hemp shirt and the corner shop will sell me an icecream called Ecstacy. When it all ends in a headache I'll score some Herron (Pharmaceuticals Panadol).
I think we need a war on brandnames.
Looks like someone's server needs a jolt of caffiene.
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Breakfast Cereal Data Structures
Finally, something I can mix with Cookie Crisps.
Harold
Strawberries and milk.
Do your homework.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
Yea but does it support Ogg Vorbis? And can it be mass produced?
Take a walk through your local Wild Oats mega-chain or "whole foods" store or "health foods" store. You know, the ones selling the weird stuff that people pay a lot of extra money for.
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 box. The stuff was oversweetened, though, so I wasn't too keen on it.
He's probably a web designer with a wardrobe entirely in black.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I was rather holding out for Penguin Peppermint cornflakes myself, but I'll take coffeed flakes :)
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You eat this cereal. And use cold coffee instead of milk. And have a double expresso on the side.
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Obligatory Futurama quote
"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."
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
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.
I'm thinking something along the lines of a caffeine-addled coder in the basic mold of that unstable bird selling Coco Puffs.
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110,000 calories per serving?!?
Why not just call it "Vomit-Flavored Cereal"..? That's whats gonna end up in the bowl anyway.
Bowie J. Poag
I, for one, welcome our new AC off-topic flame-bait humor-challenged overlords.
I think it's great that it's not just news for nerds anymore, and that we have true lifestyle/diet/nutritional stories, like this one.
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?
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Coffee-flavored cereal might taste interesting to people who like coffee. How about smokers?
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.
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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.
Given the how much geeks love caffeine, one can't help but think this cereal is directly targeted at them. That being a given, what side-of-the-box recipes might we see, similar to Chex Mix and Rice Krispie Treats? Imagine a rolled up ball of coffee-flavored flakes, bound together with honey and marshmallow, perhaps with some peanuts thrown in for good measure, and what do you get?
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Just use a White Russian cocktail (1 part vodka, 1 part Kahlua, ~3 parts milk) instead of milk. That's what The Dude would do.
"This is crazy, you realise we could all go to jail for this?" - my manager, somewhere I used to work.
Were the hell can I mail order it? Being a Coffee junkie I got to try it.
So sue me, I'm a Java geek!
The letter U stuck into flavor makes it seem like it rhymes with "Devour"!
It doesn't rhyme ... not even in NZ English.
If you look at the actual word origin, the was, origanally, no U in the word. The French added it. The British, for some reason, kept it.
Hmm, do you mean 'favour/favor'? There the 'original' is the latin 'favore,' and what you said makes some sense. The original form of 'favour' would seem to be the Old French 'flaur' (smell) which certainly does have a 'u' it. Is this really the first time you have discovered that Americans spell English differently?
Do you use milk or creamer with this cereal?
that should read: ...
The original form of 'flavour' would seem to be the Old French 'flaur'
Thank God. GrapeNuts and Coffee usually get me going in the morning. But now that I can have coffee cereal with coffee, I'll be sure to blowup the office bathroom at least an hour earlier.
...or something like that.
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
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Well that will teach me to stay logged in while at work. Damn you coworkers.
Coffee flavored breakfast cereal takes too long... gimme some of that breakfast cereal flavored coffee instead, I'm in a hurry!
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Huh? Who modded this funny? I'm making a serious suggestion here! ;-)
/.? (I in no way condone the drinking of alcyfrolic drinks by those not legally entitled to do so.)
By an odd coincidence I was drinking a White Russian when I logged on.
What do other people drink while they are reading
"This is crazy, you realise we could all go to jail for this?" - my manager, somewhere I used to work.
Damnit, theres a quote, something along the lines of, "please forgive [name] he's mixed nyquil and dayquil. Anybody know? Simpsons?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Don't they mean COFFEE?!?!?!
It just seems a little silly, like bubblegum flavored candy.
--Nuintari
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Maybe it's just that I don't live either in New Zealand or the US... but what the hell is twee-ness?
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
American English spellings are less prevalent world-wide than are the of British flavour spellings. Americans, despite anything shrub might tell you, are not the final word on everything.
The potato it is uninformed.
Picture the 1980s, if you can remember them. Box of "Ready Brek" (an instant porridge-like substance available at least in the UK). Add hot water, spoon of instant coffee. Mix up. Sorted.
Implications of this are interesting. Even if the cereal contains little caffeine, coffee-drinkers may have a similar buzz as with a full cup of coffee. I should do a study.
I know it may seem counter-intuitive, but Brigadier is absolutely correct. A small pinch of salt actually makes even crap coffee quite palatable.
But does it pop or sparkle?
Pelé!
This is uncanny.
.. took a spoonful of poffeeridge and ate it.. and it is SO UNBELIEVABLY DISGUSTING that I'm about to go throw it out into the garden and get some (plain) cornflakes instead. :(
I was just making a bowl of porridge/oatmeal for breakfast and I thought I'd mix in a spoonful of coffee as a caffeine hit for experiments' sake.
I brought the bowl back to the computer (slob, yeah I know), sat down to read Slashdot as my morning news whilst eating.. saw this article. Looked at my cereal.
He's the maker of religious dungarees, right?
Unless .nz doesn't require the listing of our favorite stimulant, there is no evidence of caffeine being in there. Unless of course it's next to the lark's vomit and MSG.
This sig no verb.
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
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Can we not even have a discussion of coffee-flavored breakfast cereal without anti-American/anti-Bush sentiment?!
I'm sure we could. But since we are having a discussion about coffee flavoured breakfast cereal that has clearly proven impossible. :p
I've used coffee, juices, even soft drinks to soften the cereal if I want it tha way.
It works.
Well, to be fair, it was someone claiming that the letter u doesn't belong in "flavour" that started it...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
But in my office I can only get them to buy folgers and or yuban. Every now and again when someone comes from Jamaica they bring me some of teh good stuff. The point here isnt' the most espensive cup of coffee but just a good cup of coffee. If that was the case jsut go down to Starbucks or your local java joinr.
And elsewhere on /. people are concerned about blinkenlights not being important enough.... *sigh*
During coffee season most of the coffee is sold to trucks that go around and generally end up at some large processing plant. my grandfather typically would leave a smole portion for home use. the process is as follows.
1.)
the coffee would be placed in a mortor with water and 'chumed' basically squished around until the fleshy part of the fruit has been removed. (The fruit is actually quite sweet)
2.)
the coffee is then layed out on large concrete surfaces to dry for a few days. after drying it is then 'tharshed' in the wind to blow away the dried of particles leaving only the bean which has a brownish grayish color. This is then stored as it keep pretty well
3.)
every now and again my grandfather would then 'parch' (roast) the coffee in a big cast iron pot looking almost like a coldron stiring it with a ladel. For coffee lovers this is about as close as you come to heaven.
4.)
the parched coffee is then ground usually to avery powdery concistence.
5.)
now keep in mind in jamaica your nto rich and in the case of my grandfather there was no electricity at thier house. so he had a tall metal thrumos of sorts which he would put the grounds in then he would pure boiling hot water on top then cover it. after all the ground settled then the coffee was poured off the top to a big old waiting 'mug' which was basically an enamel coffee cup.
to date I have never ever had coffee so good.
this is a great idea! not only will this save on milk, if you use coffee milk, you dont need to worry about all that caffinated goodness being diluted.
What about Cereal-flavored coffee?
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All the candy goodness of licking a soap bar.
(not a joke, I tried one)
If so, I will hopefully see it here
No TiVo and no caffeine make me something something...
Well, to be fair, it was someone claiming that the letter u doesn't belong in "flavour" that started it...
No, it does not belong in the word "favor". There is not a word called "Favour".
They are just sore losers that "shrub" has taken the lead in handling global problems effectively (such as terrorism), all the opponents can do is complain that Saddam was captured.
Yeah, this is great, but what about caffeine. Does this contain any?
Woo, I should of thought of that.
/. just a little too much for this kiwi.
I've been eating this cerial for um.. well, I have gotten through at least 4 boxes.
I give it a big thumbs up, with the one exception that the cerial gets a little to soggy to quickly.
I suggest you throw in a few rasins and dried apricoats. Hmmm very very nice.
As for caffine content.. no buzz like a triple flatwhite, but the taste is there which is more then enough for my brain to start firing out endorphins.
sorry about spelling.. doing helpdesk while high on a triple shot AND posting to
p.s. its a lovely sunny day, 23deg'c not a cloud in the sky.
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People would drink dog feces if they got high off of it.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
You'll be lucky if you don't have to stop at a gas station on the way.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
LOL thats great! Living in America, I miss out on the rest of the world's nicknames for our leader. "Shrub." LOL
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Elliotte Rusty Harold called, and he wants his Java back !!!
Now I'll be grouchy until I have my morning coffee-flavored breakfast cereal. :)
what the heck is twee?
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Leslie.... hey! You know my dad looks just like you.
he gets stopped at the airport all the time!
Shirley......surely!
I think its a little contradictory.... How in the world can a cereal claim to be coffee flavered, which has got to mean that its delicious, and be 97% fat free, which also means it tastes like compressed sawdust flakes? Coffee flavored sawdust? And, WHERE'S MY CAFFINE, DAMMIT?!?!?!? You mean I still gotta have my coffee with my coffee flavored cereal just to get my morning caffine fix? Oh, excuse me, *flavoured* cereal....
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
If you look at Hubbards' website you'll see they have a whole range of crazy flavoured cereals (including an orange flavoured one which is not (quite) as disgusting as it sounds). But in this case couldn't you sprinkle some instant coffee granules on your cornflakes / muesli before adding milk?
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
This is also pretty hilarious--sorry, couldn't resist.
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Yes, there is. Unless you're in America, in which case you spell any "-our" word with "-or", for reasons lost in the mists of time (not really, but I can't be arsed going into it now).
Since you asked... a 40 of Steel Reserve, thank you very much. The 12-pack-in-a-bottle! Incredibly cost-effective, and tastes better than St. Ides.
What I want to know is why the "reformers" started spelling -our as -or, but left -ous alone, despite it having exactly the same vowel sound. If "color", why not "dangeros"?
And that's without even mentioning things like "aluminum" (but not "helum", "sodum", etc), or "sulfur" (but not "fosforus").
Thats sulpher you insensitive clod ...
Why yes, I am infact a British Zealot. Peace.
I thought you still spelt it "aluminium", but pronounced it "aloo-min-um" rather than the British "al-yoo-min-eeum"?
My first reaction to this is yuck, but then I'm highly allergic to coffee :-D.
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No caffeine? I'm going to stick with my tiny cans of high-octane coffee with really weird names from the local Vietnamese supermarket. Hi Boss!
Finally, I can fill the void between my Tim Horton's XL Coffee, and the first espresso of the day!
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Would it be called Goatse-O's?
Mal-2
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
True. And do I find the whole "o" vs. "ou" argument quite silly and bordering on trolling. In contrast, however, the anti-American/anti-Bush sentiment here is just mean-spirited. C'mon, we should be celebrating the arrival of coffee-flavored cereal! Let us unite for once!
Just imagine mixing in some "Cocoa Puffs." Mmmmmm... Mocha cereal... *drool*
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thats "phosphorus" you insensitive clod!
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As for my original post being American bashing, take it more as "we can't be respected if we can't see what the other guy sees." Bush just epitomizes the blindered view.
The potato it is uninformed.
Must just have to do with living in Michigan then,eh?
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