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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?
When I was in college one of my neighbors would light a candle on the porch and then sprinkle creamer on it. Made quite the fireball.
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).
I'm sitting here like "tf is a creamer?"
Vegetable oil made to taste kinda like sweetened cream for coffee
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.
You are selecting a very small and relatively recent subset of the category and using that to describe the entire category.
I honestly thought they were holding a container of little chocolates before I read the comments
Can 2 girls share 1 creamer?
Only if they get a new cup for it.
Now we are more in mousse territory. 😐
#OnePumpOneCream
Get your throwing bagels ready.
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.
Sweet and oily is like 2/3 of an american's diet
How dare you. We also like salty and "cheese".
Excuse me but salty is just another part of the cheese pyramid
Since cheese is oily, when heated anyway, seems like they were on the money saying 2/3
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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 ?
Well, there are over 5 billion lactose intolerant people out there. Coffee creamers do typically include a very small amount of milk derivative, but it's not enough to make a difference if you don't have a dairy allergy.
Five billion? So the majority of people are lactose intolerant?
Yes. 60-70% are the estimate ranges I've seen.
Wow, I didn't think it was that widespread.
It tends to be geographic, so if you live in a region that's able to deal with lactose, you'd have the impression lactose intolerance isn't super common. But entire regions are lactose intolerant, like Southeast Asia (including China) and about half of India.
Basically anytime you see dairy as rare or non-existent in a region's traditional cuisine, that's why.
Creamer is shelf stable.
So is milk powder and sugar.
Sugar addiction and convenience culture AKA laziness.
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whats an alternative that we should be using instead?
Milk
Heavy cream / whipping cream works great
no one in here use half and half? i never knew i was an outlier.
Half and half is the standard where I live. Or people say cream and get half and half because cream is a faster word to say.
I’ve noticed different coffees blend better with different creamer flavors. And if you only add a little bit it takes the edge off the bitterness
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.
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Just a splash of oat milk for me, thanks.
Well I proudly proclaim myself to be a part of #CreamerNation. And on a completely unrelated offtopic note I love International Harvest.
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.
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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.
I spent 6 months in Italy. I spent another 6 months in Jamaica. I spent another 6 months in 5 different European countries. I've had really fuckin bad coffee everywhere.
Imagine gatekeeping caffeine
Everyone's entitled to as much caffeine as their bodies can handle, but it is pretty odd to 'love coffee' but actually love 'coffee-flavoured hot milkshake'. Like saying 'I love fruit' but really meaning 'I love apple jacks pop tarts', it's not wrong, just a bit odd.
Yeah that's still gatekeeping though. Coffee is coffee regardless of what you put in it. Even if it's gross according to my own individual taste, it's still coffee. Saying anything else is just "better-than-you" gatekeeping.
Edit: it's also nothing like your example at all, because coffee with creamer is still literally made with real coffee, while an apple jacks pop tart is almost definitely not made with real apples.
Coffee is only coffee if the coffee part of the drink is > 50% of the volume. In North America, lots of people drink a mixture that would actually have you curious about that ratio.
Sure, it's gatekeeping coffee - the reason we build walls with gates is to keep the barbarians out! I wasn't trying to 'gatekeep caffeine' in the slightest, those concotions are defintely cafffinated hot drinks. And of course, by some standard they're 'coffee' and so is tiramsu.
Apple jacks pop tarts are made from apples (apple powder, but apples nothertheless), and while it might be a small fraction of the total, the point where it stops being fruit and becomes a snack is an arbitary line. I assume you consider a drink made with instant coffee powder still coffee?
Obviously, it's a silly semantic debate, and someone could equally judge me for wanting my coffee beans roasted and ground "why not eat the berries fresh if you say you love coffee‽".
If it tastes good it is good!
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