• phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    This is the first time I’ve heard of creamer and everyone seems to be shitting on it.
    I guess I haven’t missed much.

    Are there good ones? And do many people actually use this instead of milk?
    Or is this just another one of those american culture things that us foreigners will never understand?

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      1 hour ago

      Shit’s terrible. If you like coffee with cream and sugar you can put this garbage in your cup and have a chemical stew that resembles cream, sugar and some sort of flavor like “french vanilla” (which isn’t).

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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        1 hour ago

        It’s “cream” that is mostly sugar and flavor other than cream. Most of them are also non-dairy, hence why the first cream is in quotes. The word “creamer” generally refers to the non-dairy cream substitutions for coffee.

  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz
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    12 hours ago

    Coffee creamer is bizarre. It makes everything you add it to taste sweet, oily and industrial yet it’s so popular in some cultures that it’s considered a no-brainer.

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    13 hours ago

    Well I proudly proclaim myself to be a part of #CreamerNation. And on a completely unrelated offtopic note I love International Harvest.

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    10 hours ago

    Back when I regularly drank coffee, I’d use a bit of this kind of stuff. A splash.

    Still way, waaaaay too sweet.

    Switched to a half gallon of wholefat milk in the fridge, used a splash of that instead.

    Much better.

    Most Americans I’ve known seem to think they like coffee, when what they actually like is a milkshake with notes, hints, suggestions of coffee.

    One former roommate of mine thought it was completely normal for ‘a cup’ of coffee to be 1/3 coffee and 2/3 this kind of pictured coffee.

    I remember actually vomiting one time I mistook her cup of coffee for mine.