COFFEE WITHOUT THE BALLS - DECAFF (Nescafe Cappuccino)

Member Name: Emma1973

Product:	Nescafe Cappuccino
Date:	17/07/03 (108 review reads)
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Advantages: Starbucks are no longer the enemy

Disadvantages: Wheres the coffee?

Oh, I don't half get some funny looks when I ask for decaff coffee. 'What's the point of that'? I always get, 'Its pointless' I hear them say. Well, you know what people I like the taste of coffee, I don't drink caffeine cos it acts as a blocker to my medication. Hence only decaff anything passes my lips. Be honest, do you only drink coffee for the buzz?

Now that's my little rant done, heres time for the next one! You see, you lucky caffeine drinkers have had it easy for years. You get all these lovely ground coffees, then you got all these make it yourself lattes and cappuccinos. But no more, we finally have a decaff cappuccino in your own home.
No longer will I have to pay a rather large sum of money to Starbucks on the way to work for a decent coffee, I can have one before I leave!
Now all I need is for Nescafe to make a decaff vanilla latte and I'll be ecstatic. Still, step by step!

There isn't much to distinguish them from the rest of the ordinary caffeinated ones. So beware you Java Lava or Rocket Fuel lovers you could end up with, horror of horrors......decaff! So make sure you look carefully.

So I've chucked them in the trolley, paid the £2 odd somewhere in the bill and by the time I get home I'm well up for a nice cup of coffee.

Oh wow, I get a little bonus. A tube of 'real' chocolate powder. Well thank God for that, I'd have hated to find out that some wag had put gravy granules in instead.

OK, instructions. These are really difficult mind, you could get a nasty cut from the packet. Open the packet, put it in a mug, pour some water on, stir and sprinkle the chocolate on. Eh,Voila!, lovely rich coffee.......or so I thought...

I've sat down and damn me if I aint burnt my lip! The only thing that came through that creamy looking foam was some funny coffee-flavoured boiling hot water. That kind of Happy Shopper coffee flavoured water.
It definitely needed some sweeting type product, even then it was still tasteless.
Even the foam could have benefited from a kick up the backside, there was no milkiness, no creamy, Mr Matey bubble bath has more flavour in its foam!. I didn't even want to get a spoon and get the last bit of foam out, that's how disappointing it actually was.

But I'm being a pessimist, you can actually make these taste fairly nice. We are going to follow the instructions as before with some slight changes. You open the packet, empty it into the cup, take your usual coffee and put a spoonful in the same cup (decaff of course), a couple of spoonfuls of sugar, add your water (extra milk, if you want extra milky), sprinkle liberally with the chocolate powder (which isn't too bad) and drink.

And this makes it completely lovely, creamy, milky and a lovely strong taste of coffee, of course this completely defeats the object of buying the Nescafe Cappuccino in the first place. But I've learned a valuable lesson.....only Starbucks get my cappuccino money from now on!

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