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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 . . .
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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.
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!
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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The same thing that happens when you have 10 cups of coffee: SplatterBum(tm)
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the link is slashdotted. Oatmeal made with coffee instead of water is actually palatable.
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.
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"
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 ...
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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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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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Strawberries and milk.
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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.
I was rather holding out for Penguin Peppermint cornflakes myself, but I'll take coffeed flakes :)
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"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 dunno, but you'd have to eat a hundred bowls to equal the amount of caffeine in new Total Espresso Flakes.
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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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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.
Do you use milk or creamer with this cereal?
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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Don't they mean COFFEE?!?!?!
It just seems a little silly, like bubblegum flavored candy.
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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.
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.
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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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This is also pretty hilarious--sorry, couldn't resist.
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