• Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days 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.

    • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      For anyone wondering about transatlantic definitions: US Heavy Cream is 38%, UK Double Cream 48% US “Half and half” is 12%, UK Single Cream 18%

      They can basically be used interchangeably.

      Milk is also basically the same, UK Semi-skimmed is 1.7%, so (obviously) closer to 2%.

      Good coffee is good black

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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      3 days ago

      I discovered creamer recently, I honestly don’t get it. It tastes awful and why not use actual cream or milk in coffee than this thing ?

    • Higgs boson@dubvee.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      The 3 options for regular coffee, commonly found in the US: heavy cream, half&half (50% milk & 50%heavy cream) , non-dairy creamer

      I think most people use “half and half” in their coffee. Nondairy “creamer” is basically corn syrup solids and coloring. Its nasty.

    • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I use like less than a tbsp of coffee creamer for coffee.

      The flavour is so artificial that any more will make me feel sick. It just tastes like soap.

      Many coffee creamers also taste terrible, I’m very surprised at the popularity of them overall.

      I get a specific kind that I can bear and I put a very small amount and it works for me. I don’t like milk. Black coffee is okay but I do like it with creamer more.

  • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days 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?

    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days 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).

      • Darth_Mew@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I like making some with evaporated milk, condensed milk, heavy cream and vanilla extract. splash some in to your liking

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days 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.

  • AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com
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    4 days ago

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