h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Am I the only person in the world bemused over this new-ish fascination of the "Frappichino". It seems lately that I cannot go two feet down the road without seeing some flip flop wear numb-nutz drinking one of these domed beverages.

1) It is cold coffee
2) It tastes horrible (though I admit I've never had one)

When and how did a drink of gone cold coffee before a fashion statement? Did I miss a meeting.

You could well have missed the advertising campaign that the particular coffee company has had running (in London at least) since what seems like the middle of last winter.

The only use I can think of at the moment is a hangover cure.
It does taste BLOODY AWEFUL, but at least it gets rid of the dead rat taste that was there previously.

The cure for the cold coffee taste is to make a fresh, hot cup of coffee and drink.

Don't forget the paracetomol though.
If you do, you will still have a stinking headache!!

In Canada we have Iced cap. It is cold coffee cream blended like a slurpy with tons of sugar. I do not drink my coffee with sugar so I don't think it tastes all that great. On a hot day it is quite popular to some. I find it too sweet. Does your cold coffee have ice in it? Blended? Add a shot of Bailey's Irish cream and it tastes very good. Amazing what a shot will do to a drink.
Hoppa

If we added a shot to it over here to cure a hangover, we would call it 'the hair of the dog'!

I find a hot coffee with half a bottle of Jack Daniels is quite a good example of 'hair of the dog'

I'd call that a Rhodesian Ridgeback!!!!!!!

Ah right ! Make mine a double then !!!! (hold the coffee)

The only beverage left in the cold drinks machine in this building (it's been VERY hot this week) is canned Nescafe

they have these really stupid radio commercials for the starbucs one on all the time in Southern Cali. it seems starbucs has invaded everywhere

Don't do it. It is a foul evil smelly demon drink. Most people have been conditioned to drink it in order to be accepted into adult society. Join us, The cold drink appreciation society. Well actually it's just me..... I'll get me coat

I've been gone a while, doing the ugly (four-letter-word-that-I-do-to-make-money) so I have to catch up. <>
1. Bailey's & coffee is Hair of the Dog. True. Simple,effective.
Only problem is, Bailey's costs like, 40 bucks a jug here.
Many people have Mott's Clamato juice and beer- some all night, hoping to prevent; some in the morning, hoping to cure. Pas Moi! Drinking that either way would be worse than a hangover..
2. Hot coffee & Jack Daniels'....1/2 a bottle? I dunno.
Bourbon gives me a tremendous skull-cramp.
Besides, maybe Keith Richards could have made something of himself if he hadn't drunk Jack Daniels' all the time; it obviouly hampered his chances of sucess...
3. Canned Nescafe!?! Elaborate, please! Never heard of it.
4. Apple Cider.
5. (see 4. and repeat)
PLT, Mick.

Okay I'll enlighten you if you help me ... what's Motts Clamato juice ?
Canned Nescafe is cold coffee in a can. Nescafe is a brand of coffee. Don't ask me what it tastes like as I don't 'do' cold coffee or cold tea for that matter. Iced tea, what's that all about then ?! We British people drink tea and coffee hot (because it's so bloody cold here - even in the summer !) That's why I think bourbon and hot coffee is good - it warms the insides (MMMMmmmmmm!!!!!)
I hope that helps, oh and PLT to you too !!

Mott's Clamato! Mott's is the brand, like Lea & Perrins. Which,
- combined with Clamato, Vodka, a dash of Tabasco Sauce; served in a salt-rimmed beer glass with a celery stalk - constitutes a "Caesar"!
An embarrassing omission. The "Caesar" is, you may have noticed, similar to a "Bloody Mary". Both are extremely popular "Hairs of the dog".

So. Clamato. It's a packaged commercial tomato juice and clam juice ('cocktails', they call them here; mixed-juice preparations in a can..."Cranberry Cocktail" etc.... )
Clam juice, I cannot define. I'm not sure if it's like, liquified clams, ester of clams, essence or juice from clams like coconut water; or what. (Oh well. Ask me about "prairie oysters".)
Not for me, but a lot of folks like it. More for them.
PLT, Mick.

I missed two... We have Nescafe, but it's freeze-dried instant coffee. An odd thing is they (it's a division of Nestle) market "Nescafe Instant Iced Tea"; so we can buy: " 'Coffee-Brand' Cold Tea".

To answer the question, tho';
"Tea": "Iced Tea" = "Coffee : Coca-Cola".
(The commercial kind you buy in a can, anyway)
Somehow I have the impression that Iced Tea originated on the cotton plantations in the Southern U.S.; where it was too hot to want a boiling hot drink and ice was an expensive commodity: stocked on ships from northern iceburgs; packed in straw by mule-teams overland; only available to the rich plantation-owners. So iced tea was a 'snooty, upper-crust' beverage; akin to offering a guest Champagne...
But mostly they drank sour-mash & got a skull-cramp.
PLT! Mick.

People who live in hot climates seem to like iced coffee/tea but Nescafe cans have at least as much sugar in them as non-diet Coke and have as much relation to real iced coffee/tea as margarine has to butter. [You're right, it's the freeze dried stuff]

So I needn't be disappointed about being deprived of it, then?

I would say not, but then I'm a coffee snob. I've just had an iced black coffee with my lunch, which was an egg, ham and cheese in bread so fresh I've got flour on my chin.
Yesterday I had something advertised as coca cola with lemon and ginger. Sounds good? It was, but it was HOT.
Half fill a teapot with chopped ginger, add some sliced lemon and fill the pot with HOT coke. I recommend it for when your weather turns cold -it was 32 here.

Why say apple cider? What other kind of cider is there?

Pear cider, as I found out recently, when I announced how well I could taste the apples.