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I drank sooo much canned coffee during my time in Japan. I really wish it was regularly available in the US. You can get Starbucks drink nonsense but I want rea
by donatj 3y ago
I drank sooo much canned coffee during my time in Japan. I really wish it was regularly available in the US. You can get Starbucks drink nonsense but I want real, decent god-fearing black coffee.
You can get the Japanese stuff at Asian markets near me, and I do regularly, but it’s not nearly as convenient as it being in convenience stores.
- ghaff 3y agoYou can get black cold coffee in larger containers in supermarkets but, yeah, in general the canned/bottled cold coffee you can buy is oversweetened and overmilked for my taste.
- amelius 3y agoIs this iced-coffee, or is it somehow heated?
- Gunnerhead 3y agoI remember in Japan they had both! Pretty cool.
- donatj 3y agoI only ever had the cold variety in Japan, but I can imagine the warm variety being nice as well.
- brewdad 3y agoThese are aluminum cans, I presume? Is the “hot” coffee more like lukewarm coffee or is this something that one would only be consumed in the winter when one is wearing gloves?
- kizunajp 3y agoYes, nowadays all cans are aluminum though they used to be made of steel. The hot drinks are hot hot, not lukewarm hot.
- waste_monk 3y agoApparently the self-heating is chemical, triggering whatever mechanism mixes a quantity of quicklime with water, and the result is exothermic. I tried a self-heating coffee once and to be fair it did heat up pretty well, but the coffee was overly bitter and kind of gross. With the right coffee I could see this being quite nice.