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welcome to another weird coffee review
and this time we have this drink which
I've been putting off reviewing for a
little while not just because it's the
essence of coffee and Cola that it has
no sweeteners that it has no calories
that's by the by the difficult thing for
me about this is the name because here
is the the great Atlantic divided
Americans you want to say Lacroix and I
find that very odd but at the same time
when it comes to talking about that
crescent-shaped laminated dough pastry
America is very comfortable saying
croissant which I just can't get down
with but I understand it you are
consistent this side of the Atlantic we
are were close enough to France to feel
like we ought to say it like them but we
totally bottle it so we do or you know
we just said things like cross on
quickly and embarrassingly and we feel
bad about ourselves we can't do a cross
on that makes us feel ridiculous so we
live in this awful halfway house to me
that's Lacroix but if that makes you
feel weird sure I don't I'm just gonna
go with Lacroix today because it's an
American company they're in Fort
Lauderdale in Miami and they made this
drink which caused a little bit of upset
when it came out of the start of the
year it was designed to celebrate
Miami's sort of Hispanic culture people
argued I think reasonably fairly that
the depiction of Cuba on here is
reasonably cheesy and kind of tacky but
they've made a coffee color it's the
essence of a sumatra coffee and cola it
wouldn't really matter where it was that
still be reasonably nervous it doesn't
really tell me what's in here other than
it's got nothing in here in terms of
calories or anything fun generally
people are into these products right
like Lacroix do nice tasting fizzy water
and I'm down with it it's a little
hipster or whatever and maybe it's time
is over by now I've enjoyed their
beverages but this one makes me nervous
so let's crack it open good good hoping
for a nice fizz it is a completely
player drink which is which is semi
interesting
what I don't even know what I'm smelling
there okay that was confusing because
like why is there citrus here and
there's because it's Cola the coffee
smell is yeah the Kolar smell is nice
enough a little citrus heavy as a cola
by the smell of things not many people
would think about this sort of component
flavors of Cola typically you have
orange lemon lime cinnamon nutmeg are
often in their neroli oil is a pretty
common aromatic and colas well I guess
we'll just dive in here we go Cheers oh
that's just Wow that is okay that's
quite an interesting sensory experience
it's not a good sensory experience but
it's an interesting one this is kind of
a common feature of a lot of coffee
color we type things where you have this
kind of urban full of flavor right Li
you have these little pops of different
things first sip there was like a bad
coffee taste that quickly gave way to
like a color II fruitiness oh yeah it's
like that first moment you put it to
your lips you get this sort of whack of
bad coffee taste then the Cola and then
then the lingering bad coffee flavor I
think the science roughly says that the
size of the aromatic compound determines
its volatility so smaller things go
volatile faster and you tend to
experience them sooner in this case I
have no idea what's going on that is
it's like a it's like a not terrible
watery Cola ruined by bad coffee taste
without the coffee taste that might have
been okay as like a like a zero calorie
Cola type thing that has very little
acid sweetness or joy it's so empty and
so nothing like there's no texture
there's no you know real intensity of
flavor it's not it's still fizzy water
basically with a little bit of something
if this was my culture you were
representing I would not be happy about
it do you know what if this is if this
is a cheesy depiction of Cuban culture I
think it is it's a pretty terrible
depiction of coffee flavor at the same
time let's go with that it is not the
best that coffee has to offer here
no one really seems to understand the
good flavors of coffee they understand
the cheap generic unpleasant bitter
harsh ugly flavors of coffee that are
most coffee drinks around the world but
but no one seems interested in so
zeroing in on the really good flavors of
coffee and making them a thing don't buy
this I mean if you probably wouldn't buy
this at this point I suppose if you've
watched enough of these you're you're an
informed consumer well done so we're
gonna miss swing and miss look Lacroix
Lacroix I don't know but but this is not
a high point for you so I'm saying I'm
not gonna try and do too many of these
type of videos there's lots of other
stuff I want to make and actually some
of you really enjoy these lots of you
don't really care and that's okay I'm a
little overwhelmed by things to taste
that are weird and coffee like right now
if there's something super weird and
amazing let me know but but I'm aware of
like at least a dozen things and I have
about half a dozen things still left to
taste so I could just do these like one
a week and never really catch up which
isn't gonna happen
I'm afraid so if you see some cool stuff
tweeted at me send me a DM on Instagram
please don't feel like you need to offer
to send it to me I really appreciate
that but I'm overwhelmed that's it
that's look choir coffee exotica thank
you so much for watching and I hope you
have a great day
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