Had an old acquaintance tell me he always put cheese in coffee, I don’t remember if he added creamer or not. Apparently he said it was a puertorriqueño thing? Was I being gaslit or is this an actual thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_cheese
Bread cheese can be eaten warm or cold, and is served in a number of ways:[5][2]
The traditional way is to serve it as slices, as a side dish with coffee.
A few pieces are placed in a cup, with hot coffee poured on. The Swedish name kaffeost (“coffee cheese”) refers to this.
Oh I think I’ve actually seen that before! It… sort of makes sense? But I think he was actually like melting cheese into the coffee
If it’s true, I’ve got questions. What sort of cheese? soft cheese, hard cheese, stinky blue cheese? or maybe plasticy kraft singles?
A lot of LatAm (particularly older) like to use powdered creamer as its cheaper and has a long shelf life, so I wonder if the cheese is trying to achieve a better cream with shelf life.
Really? I was just having a conversation with a coworker about how nobody actually likes the powdered creamer, we just use it because we don’t have a fridge (in our office) to store the good creamer, and people steal out of communal fridges. I settle for some “vanilla caramel” powder that is actually not terrible, but neither is it anything approaching “good”.
Aside from being cheap and having shelf life, is there a good powdered creamer, or is it just cheap and shelf stable?
I also like it to avoid coffee waste. None of us are gonna prefer coffee thats older, but a fresh coffee poured into a thermos with a non-dairy creamer and sugar will actually keep for several days.
Maybe like is a strong word, but drinking coffee black is no common. Like they need to get that brown color as well as some sweet bread.
Aside from being cheap and having shelf life, is there a good powdered creamer, or is it just cheap and shelf stable?
I think its the latter. Personally I prefer to just use cream. I also don’t mind instant coffee if I will use some milk. Which is another thing. They also tend to use instant coffee.
Growing up having a coffee machine of any kind was not really a thing I saw. Tho maybe its regional as the LatAm im talking about is North East Mex.
I have the same questions, so I’ll use my imagination to answer. I would say if you have control over the cheese making process (if there’s a name for that, I don’t know what it is), you could probably make the cheese more sweet and less sour. (I’m not sure sour is the right word. The flavour of cheddar as opposed to jack or mozzarella. Sharpness?)
But then I look at grated parmesan and think that’s not much different from powdered creamer, except parmesan would be a terrible cheese as it’s so sour/sharp and dry.
I imagine Puerto Rico has a lot more farms and a lot more small dairies as opposed to one big one the whole island uses… so it’s possible they have that control over it and one dairy might be putting out a cheese that works in coffee.
My knee-jerk reaction was violent but i think i could learn to love cheese and coffee as like a dunking pastry on the side kinda deal
Like a soft cheese a ricotta maybe? I have seen boba with a cheese in the top. It was more like a foamy sour cream.
Not chilli?
It’s a thing, I hear it’s pretty good too
puertorriqueño
No soy uno, y nunca he oído hablar de ellos haciendo eso.
I’m lowkey a hispanic larper. I’m basically illiterate in Spanish and only somewhat conversationally fluent.
Thats all too common tho. I am fluent, but all my education is in English, so there are technical things I struggle with. If you know where to look or listen you might even pick it out.
Fair enough! Tengo un pregunta pues, si es bien a pedirlo
…nunca he oído de…
No se que gramática “he” es. Nunca vi eso. ¿Que es?
And since I don’t trust myself to have phrased that correctly, I’m not familiar with the “he” thing. What part of speech is that? I imagine it’s referring to yourself but I haven’t seen that form at all
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Sure. It means “I have”. I think its the past perfect/present in grammar? I am not sure.
No he comido -> I have not ate.
The he is not really a verb it just kind of modifies what comes after. It comes from Haber rather than Tener.
Pretty much all of my education is in English, so I cannot really explain it well.
I will tell you I would not try cheese in coffee, but I would also tell you I would not try Fruity Pebbles coffee with Fruity Pebbles creamer, but a coworker brought both. I was the only one who dared to try it. It was fucking disgusting. I wouldn’t drink it again, much less pay for it. Way too sweet. Like these s’mores lattes my wife likes to get, but about ten times sweeter. No thanks.
I tried some of the Paris Hilton creamer that’s supposed to be spicy. It actually tasted like the marshmallows from Lucky Charms.
yuck
