The rise of iced coffee

[ShortCutie7]

I just came across this interesting video about the rapid rise of iced coffee in the USA.  Strange, since I’ve been addicted to iced coffee since 2008 (and usually don’t drink hot coffee or hot beverages in general).  I didn’t realize this was at all unique, but perhaps the trope of NYC gays drinking iced coffee and walking fast is a smaller bubble than I thought.

https://youtu.be/JV5bDK0G9FU

[marylander1940]

In the summer I prefer to drink my coffee cold and made out of instant coffee with splenta.

Something like a Frappuccino but home made and without unnecessary sugary calories.

[ShortCutie7]

1 hour ago, marylander1940 said:

In the summer I prefer to drink my coffee cold and made out of instant coffee with splenta.

Something like a Frappuccino but home made and without unnecessary sugary calories.

I drink iced coffee year-round, regardless of the weather (yes, even when the temperature is sub-zero)!  Those bottled frappuccinos are delicious but don’t satisfy my caffeine craving.

[mike carey]

When I was a kid a little while ago in Australia, the idea of caffeine as the 'reason' for coffee or tea was foreign, and iced coffee was a thing in the same way that chocolate milk was. It was basically a milk drink that kids or anyone else would drink. Nothing fancy, and although available in shops and milk bars, often made at home with instant coffee and milk, usually some sugar, and gasp! a scoop if ice cream as a treat. Iced black coffee would have been regarded as terminally avant garde.

If someone had put this on the pavement, people would think they were mad, or a complete wanker.

Iced coffee is alive and well in this country, equally in its old iteration as a flavoured milk drink, and a fancy product of our coffee culture.

[ShortCutie7]

28 minutes ago, mike carey said:

When I was a kid a little while ago in Australia, the idea of caffeine as the 'reason' for coffee or tea was foreign, and iced coffee was a thing in the same way that chocolate milk was. It was basically a milk drink that kids or anyone else would drink. Nothing fancy, and although available in shops and milk bars, often made at home with instant coffee and milk, usually some sugar, and gasp! a scoop if ice cream as a treat. Iced black coffee would have been regarded as terminally avant garde.

If someone had put this on the pavement, people would think they were mad, or a complete wanker.

Iced coffee is alive and well in this country, equally in its old iteration as a flavoured milk drink, and a fancy product of our coffee culture.

There used to be a restaurant in NYC that sold “Australian iced coffee”, which was coffee with ice cream in it!

[mike carey]

After writing in here, I went shopping for a few groceries, and when I came to the yoghurt section of the fridge, one of my usual two brands was on special (tubs of yoghurt with a swirl of some sweet stuff through it, usually fruit in a fruity puree) and a new flavour was Affogato. So. not just milk. I am enjoying it!

[+ Pensant]

Although I prefer hot coffee, cream only, I started drinking iced coffee, black, while traveling regularly to Manhattan to meet with clients in the early 1990s, particularly in summer. It was already big in Manhattan at the time.

[harlow]

I’m a coffee addict and I definitely love my iced coffee. Especially with extra ice