I'm not quite sure what to say about this one......

Cuir Beluga

I'll leave this here for your entertainment  ^-^.

Brett H

Wow, that looks like fresh roasted premium artisan specialty coffee dust in those packets.  Tres fancy!!

Brett H

Might I add that watching the milk particles turn into sludge then frothy mucusy liquid... I think we have a winner for the milk thread!

Cuir Beluga

:D I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing. $99 from your nearest Woolies and she is all yours :P.

Brett H

Wow... Only 99... So cheap!!  After you factor in the cost of the obligatory stomach pump and taste-bud transplant that's still less than those noobs on the coffee forums are paying for their fancy coffee makers!

DoubleRistretto

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:D I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing. $99 from your nearest Woolies and she is all yours :P.

wow, what can you say? just 'wow'  ::)

Cuir Beluga

Hey it's not all bad. The cups are nice, well they would be if they didn't have Nescafe plastered all over them :P.

Brett H

A friend of mine has a heap of Nespresso paraphernalia.  It's brilliantly marketed and manufactured.  Not so much the machines and the coffee ironically. 

Cuir Beluga

I don't doubt it at all Brett, they probably spend millions on making the packaging attractive for perspective buyers.

littleroundman

Ingredients: CoffeeMate Corn Syrup Solids, Vegetable Oil (Partially Hydrogenated Coconut or Palm Kernel, Hydrogenated Soybean), Sodium Caseinate (a Milk Derivative) (Not a Source of Lactose), and Less than 2% of Dipotassium Phosphate (Moderates Coffee Acidity), Mono and Diglycerides (Prevents Oil Separation), Sodium Aluminosilicate, Artificial Flavor, Annatto Color.

Brett H

How do they fit all those ingredients into one little dust particle??  Frightening!!  Very bloody frightening!

GeekKopi

Eeeek. I read about this and I bet you it will sell like hot cakes.

Cuir Beluga

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Ingredients: CoffeeMate Corn Syrup Solids, Vegetable Oil (Partially Hydrogenated Coconut or Palm Kernel, Hydrogenated Soybean), Sodium Caseinate (a Milk Derivative) (Not a Source of Lactose), and Less than 2% of Dipotassium Phosphate (Moderates Coffee Acidity), Mono and Diglycerides (Prevents Oil Separation), Sodium Aluminosilicate, Artificial Flavor, Annatto Color.

Nom, nom, nom.

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How do they fit all those ingredients into one little dust particle??  Frightening!!  Very bloody frightening!

Scary for sure.

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Eeeek. I read about this and I bet you it will sell like hot cakes.

I bet it does too.

Brett H

Friends of mine are debating getting the Woolies pod machine. Thing is, by their reckoning it's really cheap.  I see their logic and haven't dissuaded them because neither of them are coffee drinkers.  Perfect!

FreshCoffee2

Now now peeps.....notice a very positive point straight up.....they spelled cappuccino correctly  ;D After that: Notice how the marketing gurus always deliver. It says Coffee Mate on the packet, but its commonly called CreameRRRRR by the masses. That makes it ok for them to ingest all that crap into their system instead of just using fresh milk in a cup of their favourite instant. Just wait for it, the thing will sell like hot cakes, and will have the desired outcome......which is to create more market (sales) for their products. The machine is a "lost leader" ("loss leader" - whatever...you know what I mean)  used to sell product. In regard to ingredients in stuff...Notice that at the moment someone is doing a class action against the makers of one of the proprietary "analgesic" products on our shelves.  The "class" is incensed because it has been buying a miriad of different products to use on different symptoms EG, a packet of brand X for period pain, a packet of brand X1 for headache, and a packet of brand X2 for back pain. Not reading the contents that are clearly marked on the front of the packets, the "class" didn't realise all these different products have the same amount and type of active ingredient, and that they could have been buying just one product instead of a lot of different ones, at greater expense.... People that don't read ingredients, or who are not concerned that their body may be a temple, will buy the red thingowhatsie and boost sales of product... and if for whatever reason the clients buy a different brand of creameRRRRR, they will quickly find it wont work in the machine because the machine has been designed around the manufacturer's own product not anyone else's....so the client will have to go back to the name brand stuff. Gotcha ! And that's nothing more than realism rather than cynicism 

Cuir Beluga

I wonder if they come in purple  :P. Spot on as usual FC  .

Kevohere

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And that's nothing more than realism rather than cynicism 

Well said FC. However it's unfortunate that cynicism will usually override realism in today's world. I'm an ingredient reader AND.......... where (country and in this case, laboratory) it originated.

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I wonder if they come in purple  :P.

Dunno CB. But I'll bet it comes out purplish!  :coffee:

Cuir Beluga

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Well said FC. However it's unfortunate that cynicism will usually override realism in today's world. I'm an ingredient reader AND.......... where (country and in this case, laboratory) it originated. Dunno CB. But I'll bet it comes out purplish!  :coffee:

Or perhaps ones skin could take on a slight pallor with pale purple hues once ingested  ;D.

Brett H

Best thing about it is this thread!

Cuir Beluga

Nescafe. Good for........something  ;D.

Moon

Coffee Mate eh? Ingredient ---> Sodium Aluminosilicate. Aluminium .. nice. That stuff lodges in your Brain .. and there is talk it may have a link to Alzheimers. I wouldn't want to be ingesting Aluminium 2-3 times a day in my coffee. Knowing that it may be dissolving my memory kinda takes the fun and enjoyment out of it. Not to worry ... eventually I may get to the stage where I forget all about the Aluminium being in my coffee .. did I just have a coffee? Not sure .. better go have another one then .. where do I go to get one? Can't remember. Do I even like coffee? Don't know. Think I'm ready to have that cup of tea now  >:D

Brett H

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Do I even like coffee? Don't know. Think I'm ready to have that cup of tea now  >:D

NOoooooooooooo........... The horror!!!

Moon

I'm just imagining what aluminium may do to my Brain and memory. On the rare occasion .. I must admit I do enjoy a sweet white Earl Grey tea. Bought a packet on special about 3 months ago .. and had 2 cups

Cuir Beluga

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I'm just imagining what aluminium may do to my Brain and memory. On the rare occasion .. I must admit I do enjoy a sweet white Earl Grey tea. Bought a packet on special about 3 months ago .. and had 2 cups

If/when I have tea it has to be sweet and white too. I can do coffee without sugar but not tea  .

Brett H

Hey... Me too!!  I buy Nerada if I'm forced to buy tea because I grew up in North Queensland.

Moon

Nerada was my tea of choice for years when having a normal white tea - 1 sugar in those .. 2 in Earl Grey .. and none in standard tea with a slice or 2 of fresh lemon, and no sugar in the herbals. Chai tea .. I also prefer sweetened. There you go  8)

Cuir Beluga

I went on a real tea bender a few years ago, I wasn't drinking any coffee at the time. I stocked up on one of my favourites and then one morning I found I just couldn't stomach it, it turned out I was pregnant and I have barely touched it since. The boxes are still in the cupboard 4 years later  ^-^.