Doing ground coffee rubs on meats like steak or bacon or pork tenderloin is a thing. People eat bacon at breakfast and wash it down with black coffee. They're actually pretty complementary flavors, so it all comes down to the exact execution.
It's actually the milkiness of the latte together with the pork that gives me pause. I think it would really come down to the "Dongpo pork sauce" that flavors it all, if it successfully ties them all together. I'm curious what its flavors consist of.
It's just good harmless fun. I'd totally pay for that.
Only once, obviously.
Poking around online, I do see some non-traditional red-eye gravy recipes that also add milk.
Bacon and chocolate is also a well-established pairing.
Honestly, assuming you can deal with the oiliness, I think bacon flavor would work great in a coffee drink.
Do you have a recipe?
I can't vouch for the caffeine content though. Don't think you can replace your morning brew with it...
Coffee, ginger, scallion and soy sauce might not be it for me.
Ginger I'm dubious of but I'm open to being pleasantly surprised.
Scallions? No sir, I'm out.
I'm truly surprised the pork/bacon craze of the past few decades in the US did not produce pork&bacon coffee.
I feel like the beanie wearing SF/Portland/Seattle hipsters let us all down. My question to them today would be: What would you say...you do here?
Frankly, I think the independents are happy to cede the “basically milkshake” segment of the market to Sbux.
The innovation in the last 15 years is largely around roasting and grinding technology (consistency, control over flavour extraction) as well as inventing cool brewing apparatus for every taste and aesthetic preference.
But when you say "flopping", I'm picturing limp skinny diner bacon, and... ugh.
It is not difficult to find Halah food in China, just that Halah certified isn't a thing that most people/merchants care about.
Non-muslim Chinese love pork, it is by far the most commonly eaten meat in the country.
In any case, Starbucks in Asia is pretty upscale compared to the US. It serves a different (and wealthier) demographic.
My wife is from Thailand and I've lived there for a while, I've noticed the same thing there with Western fast food chains. We think of KFC, Dominos or Maccas as junk food but over there, they are considered "mid range", as a result they are much cleaner and better staffed, the venues have much nicer seating etc. - this is especially true in regional areas, much less in Bangkok and other urban areas where I guess the novelty factor is long gone.
UX tip screen doesn't say what to do, and selection arrows are tiny. Then, you have to hit the green enter button at bottom of pad (no prompt, and it's not green anymore after 1000 uses). People keep pecking at the screen thinking it's touch. I hit the wrong button, so cashier tried to fix it and unplugged it.
Boot time is 3 minutes. Of course, it locked up on the IP address screen so took another reboot.
Actually Starbucks has that too, you can get it in 7-11. It's not like it has a 'Cheesy' flavor though; more of a creamy dairy thing to it. 'Cheese' is a pretty common addition to dessert drinks in China and to my Western tastes is pretty good.
That said, mixing stuff with coffee does have precedent. Espresso mixed with milk is something that no coffee snob would call an abomination. Maybe pork juice is an even better add-in than milk? You don't know until you try.
You can drink it?
Pineapple on pizza?
And while I'm sure there's traditional culinary heritage that a Starbucks PR employee can point to as well, their olive oil coffee is just an upmarket answer to the popularity of butter coffees (most popularly branded as Bulletproof). Instead of just adopting that trend, they tried to lean into a more artisanal, cultured brand by highlighting its use of olive oil instead of butter.
My conclusions:
* It needed salt
* I needed a piece of bread to dip in.
By this, I mean that the olive oil used was very nice, but it felt like drinking warm olive oil, not coffee.
The nice thing about the whole endeavor is that I now have a recurring purchase in Amazon for the olive oil they used in the coffee, so I consider that a win.
