Cream Me, Baby. Er, I Mean, My Coffee...

Once I got my first sip of flavored liquid creamer, the plain powdered stuff might as well have turned into a spoonful of flour, a fine base for making something that wasn't coffee. Coffeemate original flavor? No, thank you. What is original flavor anyway?

Now Coffeemate's regular line of flavored liquid creamers? They have an impressively wide variety, only some of which work. You can taste a nasty tang in the others that make one long for a spoonful of flour. No wonder, given the long list of fake ingredients. Cinnamon anything is the worst and coconut the best. Pretty much all of it is artificial flavors.

By contrast, Coffeemate's Natural Bliss line with limited flavor variety: yum! International Delight makes richer and sweeter creamer with a fraction of the flavors of Coffeemate's regular line. Bailey's makes some of the richest and creamiest creamer with real dairy in a number of decadent flavors. And Dunkin' Donuts limited selection taste pretty good courtesy of International Delight.



Too bad none of the lines' Irish Cream is quite Irish enough and certainly won't make anyone tipsy. Not that you'd want such a thing when mainlining 20 cups in the morning or at work. Or maybe you do.




Now I just have to stalk excessive amounts of the shelf-stable stuff on Amazon.com. And the delicious flavored syrups used in coffee shops. But maybe that's just too deep an artificial flavor rabbit hole...