Bought this stuff from the grocery store and wanted to like it due to its relatively clean list of ingredients… It was gross - weird taste and further mired by chunks of gelatinous mystery stuff.
@stinks Yeah likely their brick and mortar failed as a grocery store so we are their online post covid grocery store with delivery. And charities don’t want this stuff because they don’t take alleged “expired” food so where else can they sell it? We’re dumb enough to buy it rather than dig through their dumpster for it.
@stinks Personally, I like the food offerings more than bluetooth speakers and knives. I already know what I like in speakers and knives. At least with food, I can try new things.
One of the two variants being offered today is a full two weeks past its best by date? Am I reading that right? I know it says right there in the description that it’s okay to consume up to 6 months past…but still, feels a little weird.
@phendrick At my local grocery store this sits on the shelf at room temperature. It is also priced at $3.39 a bottle. I guess that what a longer best by date costs.
Very disappointing. I bought these from Publix (refrigerated) and they tasted bland to me. It’s sad because I like stevia in hot tea and the occasional iced coffee I get from Dunkin.
Sweetened with artificial sweeteners like monk fruit and stevia, so know that going in
Aren’t stevia and monk fruit natural sweeteners as opposed to artificial sweeteners?
Found deep in the hills surrounding Medellin, Colombia, this rich and creamy blend makes the perfect drink anytime, anywhere
This evokes both the impression that this stuff just springs from the ground and gets thrown into bottles and the thought that cocaine is involved. Or maybe that’s just me.
To me, these arent completely awful if you’re looking for a not-sugar coffee and you’re okay with the taste of stevia. I can’t do sucralose (Splenda), which is the primary non-sugar/non-caloric sweetener nowadays, so to have a non-sucralose coffee available in bottled form is nice. I’ve definitely consumed them past their ‘best by’ date and survived. I agree with @JT954 that stevia in an iced coffee from Dunkin tastes far better, but I think that may be because of the addition of protein in these bottled coffees?
(I know, “arent completely awful” isn’t exactly high praise, but when you’d like a packaged, ready to drink coffee, and you dont consume Splenda, and the idea of a hit of protein is something that appeals to you, these do the job)
And, 24 probably non-recyclable plastic containers. I go with a 12 oz shot of double-brewed* coffee and a cliff bar in the AM, probably same effect and none of the funny additions.
twice as much ground coffee as usually used for 12 oz mug.
@stolicat These bottles are accepted in normal plastic bottle recycling conditions. Unfortunately not all of these plastics actually end up being recycled, so yeah, we should use less plastic anyway, but… I’m not sure I’m helping here (though I intended to)….
Since I never put stuff in coffee, when this popped up on my RSS feed it took me a moment to register whether “keto” coffee was a joke.
(Then I remembered that to most people sugar is a standard inclusion in a coffee drink, so it’s not unreasonable to advertise its replacement with something low-carb. But I got a laugh first, so it’s win-win.)
@3Phen@OnionSoup I put sugar in my coffee up until my early 30’s. When I decided to switch to black it only took about 2 weeks to wean off the sugar. Now I prefer and only drink it black.
@3Phen@macromeh except for the first time I had coffee, I’ve always had it black…
But my wife used to have hers as milk with a splash of coffee and a bunch of sugar. I’m slowly converting her to the dark side… She doesn’t take sugar now (and doesn’t miss it)… And her coffees these days are just a tiny splash of milk instead of a tiny splash of coffee in milk.
She will fully give herself to the dark side before long.
The only way I could drink it was by blending in sugar, vanilla extract, chocolate, and more coffee, then slushifying it in the freezer. Just an overwhelming taste of nothing followed by stevia.
Probably bland but acceptable if you can handle stevia, but if your opinion on the leaf extract is even “slightly dislike” this is a bad time.
A quibble: two grams of fat and three grams of carbs is NOT actually a keto drink. Just make some iced coffee and add some heavy cream and monkfruit, if you need it sweet.
@TomDavidson Keto is all fat, so no problem there. I believe you’re allowed to have a very small amount of carbs, like less than 50mg or something. Most keto products have some in the low single digits. But I agree, processed keto isn’t great, just have what you said. (Make sure the creamer is whole fat, not the sugar/oil-subbed “low fat” kind)
@punkynpye, a ketogenic diet is DEFINED as a diet that gets about 180 grams of fat, 30-40 grams of carbohydrates, and 80 grams of protein for about 2500 calories a day. That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of other diets out there that work well for people, but a high-protein, low-fat diet is NOT keto just because it also stays low carb. (Note that a keto diet that’s “mostly veggies” is also pretty difficult to achieve.)
When I search the definition using online tools a description of the diet is provided, without exact numbers. @TomDavidson could you please link your source?
@806D2701, I said “about” because it’s imprecise; the numbers I provided are just a typical breakdown based on calorie count. In general, you want ~70% fat, 20% protein, and as few carbs as possible. A high-protein, low-fat diet is NOT “keto.”
@punkynpye@TomDavidson@Vladiator what you’ve described here (with high protein and veggies and low fat) is more paleo than keto. Keto by definition is high fat, low/moderate protein, and very little carbs. But regardless, congrats on the 60#!! No matter what is the descriptor!
A delicious coffee can help motivate me to do stuff, such as go for a jog. Afterwards my heart rate is elevated from the exercise, and I switch to water.
@806D2701 Of course! But I think a healthier habit is doing something like a jog without caffeine, unless you’re borderline depressed (been there) and try to taper off. I don’t use caffeine for moderate exercise. Only heavy exercise and recovery.
I found some of these on clearance at my local grocers. It was blueberry muffin flavored. And although it did have a sort of blueberry muffin flavor to it, I could barely drink 1/3 of the bottle it was just gross/weird tasting. I’m glad I only got two bottles at the time because they both ended up in the garbage
@richrauch That’s more reason than I needed to just ignore the whole IRK thing for a while longer yet. Coffee is something I hate anyway, and coffee that’s past its sell-by date might still be “safe”, but that not going to make it “not coffee anymore” nor will it impress anyone I might try to foist it off upon.
Lots of folks saying that ppl should just drink black coffee.
Heyyyy, some of us don’t get to just have coffee. I’m 8 years post VSG (bariatric surgery.) I have to be very careful to manage the amount of protein I get in a day. Even before surgery, we’re taught to make every bite/sip count, and to be careful about caffeine and coffee in general, because of the effect it can have on digestion.
So, I get to have coffee in the morning, but it has to be “proffee” – protein + coffee. I use Premier Protein Cafe Latte with a Starbucks Via, iced or hot depending on the weather. That way I get a nice start on my protein intake for the day, the protein/dilution helps protect my stomach from the effects of the coffee, and I get the benefits of the caffeine dose. (It seems to reduce the migraines I get. No, I don’t mean caffeine withdrawal, those are different headaches!)
And with all of that, I still wouldn’t drink these. UGH, stevia. I’ll keep my sucralose, thank you.
Just by chance, a friend passed a couple of bottles of the caramel ones on to me. I just tried one and really don’t like it. The monkfruit/stevia flavor reminds me of anise or licorice, which I hate.
Wow! I am so mad about this order, It says on here that the expiration but it is 7/3. I want a refund. If you need it returned, I most certainly will if you pay the shipping
I received my order on 7/14/23 - when I opened up the order and looked at the bottles, they all had an expiration date of 7/3/23. I had to throw all of these away - such a waste of money.
Well, I was looking forward to these and would’ve drank them because I know there was generally time after an expiration date that something is good. However, FedEx couldn’t get it to my house and delivered it somewhere else. I got a snapshot of a gray painted wall but not enough of the house to see itMeh has been great about and refunded my money but I really wish whoever had gotten it would’ve tracked me down like I did with the Chewy order I got that day.
How come people who can’t read the specifications that clearly state the expiration dates are then able to read the small print on the actual bottle?
(Didn’t buy them - someone gave me some.)
@Kyeh I am convinced that the majority of consumers assume two things; first, that they do not really need to read all of the details, and second, that somebody, somewhere is always going to have done their homework for them.
I really believe that the only way we’ll cut down on this type of complaint is to feature the expiration date, with a header of “Cheap Because Somebody Bought Too Many” (or whatever, as fits) where that’s an actual statement of the representation for their remaindering. It won’t work when things come up like the reported-but-unverified metal flakes issue, or when an unscrupulous warehouse is dumping pallets of snack sausage because they left a trailer in the yard with its reefer turned off for too long, but when the proximity (or passage) of the store-shelf date is the only reason it got handed to a broker, that’s the best defense. Intentionally target only the bargain-hunters who like such deals, and they won’t complain.
I can’t predict if this would have enough negative impact on the sales to make the item a net loser, but as CYA, I like the odds it provides.
I don’t mind it being expired. But it wasn’t delivered. I live at a house and theres a mailbox right in front but it wouldn’t fit there so it had to be left at door, nothing on cameras at any time on days before, on, and after it says delivered. Nada
I ordered six boxes, and I just ran out! Love, loved this offer and hope to see it again soon! They were delicious after the due date…never noticed a problem at all. I’ve been drinking these for two years, so I’m quite familiar and would notice if they were bad. Please, please do again…even my daughter asked last week if we could order again!!!
Specs
Product: 24-Pack: Super Coffee Iced Keto Coffee
Model: 10865891000143, 10850007042223
Condition: New
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$62-$67.94 for 24 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Dec 15 - Tuesday, Dec 16
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SUPER COFFEE!!!
Bought this stuff from the grocery store and wanted to like it due to its relatively clean list of ingredients… It was gross - weird taste and further mired by chunks of gelatinous mystery stuff.
@blab
Now there’s a great ad campaign just waiting to start.
@blab
Well, everybody has to eat shaving cream once in a while.
/ David ‘Mo’ Rutherford, hero of The Stuff
@blab prolly is protein that settled as the bottles sit in a warehouse or the store shelf. my premier protein drinks do the same thing.
“Food. It’s what were doing instead of bluetooth speakers and knives.”
-Meh management, probably
@stinks Yeah likely their brick and mortar failed as a grocery store so we are their online post covid grocery store with delivery. And charities don’t want this stuff because they don’t take alleged “expired” food so where else can they sell it? We’re dumb enough to buy it rather than dig through their dumpster for it.
@stinks Personally, I like the food offerings more than bluetooth speakers and knives. I already know what I like in speakers and knives. At least with food, I can try new things.
@stinks @TwiNaga Just about the smartest thing I’ve read on this website
@Kidsandliz
Oooh, that’s a good call.
One of the two variants being offered today is a full two weeks past its best by date? Am I reading that right? I know it says right there in the description that it’s okay to consume up to 6 months past…but still, feels a little weird.
Heck with the coffee – I want to buy whatever Meh uses to keep this so that it is still iced during/after being shipped to me.
@phendrick At my local grocery store this sits on the shelf at room temperature. It is also priced at $3.39 a bottle. I guess that what a longer best by date costs.
Very disappointing. I bought these from Publix (refrigerated) and they tasted bland to me. It’s sad because I like stevia in hot tea and the occasional iced coffee I get from Dunkin.
Aren’t stevia and monk fruit natural sweeteners as opposed to artificial sweeteners?
This evokes both the impression that this stuff just springs from the ground and gets thrown into bottles and the thought that cocaine is involved. Or maybe that’s just me.
@djslack yup, you’re correct that they’re natural. I’ve fixed!
@djslack Not just you.
Tried the vanilla latte recently. Overpoweringly sweet… not for me.
And I usually have a sweet tooth.
@caribou That should be perfect for me and my defective tongue that does a poor job of tasting sweet.
To me, these arent completely awful if you’re looking for a not-sugar coffee and you’re okay with the taste of stevia. I can’t do sucralose (Splenda), which is the primary non-sugar/non-caloric sweetener nowadays, so to have a non-sucralose coffee available in bottled form is nice. I’ve definitely consumed them past their ‘best by’ date and survived. I agree with @JT954 that stevia in an iced coffee from Dunkin tastes far better, but I think that may be because of the addition of protein in these bottled coffees?
(I know, “arent completely awful” isn’t exactly high praise, but when you’d like a packaged, ready to drink coffee, and you dont consume Splenda, and the idea of a hit of protein is something that appeals to you, these do the job)
The high caffeine will definitely help me run, and run to the bathroom to take care of the first one.
i’m using my meh meh thing right now. i declare this is the most meh thing i’ve ever seen offered
@spacemart You must be new here.
I bought this stuff at the grocery store and thought it would be a treat… Turned out I didn’t like it at all. I wouldn’t drink it again.
And, 24 probably non-recyclable plastic containers. I go with a 12 oz shot of double-brewed* coffee and a cliff bar in the AM, probably same effect and none of the funny additions.
@stolicat These bottles are accepted in normal plastic bottle recycling conditions. Unfortunately not all of these plastics actually end up being recycled, so yeah, we should use less plastic anyway, but… I’m not sure I’m helping here (though I intended to)….
@stolicat Plastic of almost any type is always recyclable. The problem is whether or not your area will actually take it for recycling.
Since I never put stuff in coffee, when this popped up on my RSS feed it took me a moment to register whether “keto” coffee was a joke.
(Then I remembered that to most people sugar is a standard inclusion in a coffee drink, so it’s not unreasonable to advertise its replacement with something low-carb. But I got a laugh first, so it’s win-win.)
@3Phen I still think it would be easy enough for sugary coffee drinkers to train themselves to drink coffee black like a civilized person…
/ Yes, I’m being a bit of a troll there… Lol. Sorry.
@3Phen @OnionSoup I put sugar in my coffee up until my early 30’s. When I decided to switch to black it only took about 2 weeks to wean off the sugar. Now I prefer and only drink it black.
@3Phen @macromeh except for the first time I had coffee, I’ve always had it black…
But my wife used to have hers as milk with a splash of coffee and a bunch of sugar. I’m slowly converting her to the dark side… She doesn’t take sugar now (and doesn’t miss it)… And her coffees these days are just a tiny splash of milk instead of a tiny splash of coffee in milk.
She will fully give herself to the dark side before long.
I got one of these free a year ago at QuikTrip.
The only way I could drink it was by blending in sugar, vanilla extract, chocolate, and more coffee, then slushifying it in the freezer. Just an overwhelming taste of nothing followed by stevia.
Probably bland but acceptable if you can handle stevia, but if your opinion on the leaf extract is even “slightly dislike” this is a bad time.
You know what else has zero carbs?
Regular coffee!
Keto coffee? Face palm time!
@OnionSoup
https://www.google.com/search?q=bulletproof+coffee
A quibble: two grams of fat and three grams of carbs is NOT actually a keto drink. Just make some iced coffee and add some heavy cream and monkfruit, if you need it sweet.
@TomDavidson Keto is all fat, so no problem there. I believe you’re allowed to have a very small amount of carbs, like less than 50mg or something. Most keto products have some in the low single digits. But I agree, processed keto isn’t great, just have what you said. (Make sure the creamer is whole fat, not the sugar/oil-subbed “low fat” kind)
@TomDavidson @Vladiator Uhm, I’m not sure where you got your info from, but most keto diets haven’t been high fat since the 80s, with Fatkins.
A typical keto diet is mostly veggies and proteins, with minimal healthy fats.
Source: I lost 60 lbs, over 10 years ago, and have kept it off by eating keto.
@punkynpye, a ketogenic diet is DEFINED as a diet that gets about 180 grams of fat, 30-40 grams of carbohydrates, and 80 grams of protein for about 2500 calories a day. That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of other diets out there that work well for people, but a high-protein, low-fat diet is NOT keto just because it also stays low carb. (Note that a keto diet that’s “mostly veggies” is also pretty difficult to achieve.)
When I search the definition using online tools a description of the diet is provided, without exact numbers. @TomDavidson could you please link your source?
@806D2701, I said “about” because it’s imprecise; the numbers I provided are just a typical breakdown based on calorie count. In general, you want ~70% fat, 20% protein, and as few carbs as possible. A high-protein, low-fat diet is NOT “keto.”
@punkynpye @TomDavidson @Vladiator what you’ve described here (with high protein and veggies and low fat) is more paleo than keto. Keto by definition is high fat, low/moderate protein, and very little carbs. But regardless, congrats on the 60#!! No matter what is the descriptor!
“If that stuff doesn’t sit well with you, then you might like this stuff.” I think a “not” is missing in that sentence.
@natefarious absolutely correct.
Why would you need coffee for a morning jog? The jog is your morning coffee? If you crash after you jog and can’t nap, then you grab the coffee!
A delicious coffee can help motivate me to do stuff, such as go for a jog. Afterwards my heart rate is elevated from the exercise, and I switch to water.
@806D2701 Of course! But I think a healthier habit is doing something like a jog without caffeine, unless you’re borderline depressed (been there) and try to taper off. I don’t use caffeine for moderate exercise. Only heavy exercise and recovery.
I like these. If anyone buys them today and doesn’t enjoy them, I’ll buy them from you, but of course I’d want a slightly lower price at that point.
@mehvid1 P.S. You’re welcome, Meh.
@mehvid1 That’s a very interesting and generous offer. Not sure if serious.
@806D2701 Fairly serious! Negotiable terms, but I’ll be pretty fair, I think:
What discount do you want?
10%, unless you wait very long and it’s even MORE “expired”
Do you pay in advance, or on receipt?
On receipt, please.
Do you pay for shipping?
No.
What’s your preferred payment method?
Venmo (or Zelle, I guess).
I found some of these on clearance at my local grocers. It was blueberry muffin flavored. And although it did have a sort of blueberry muffin flavor to it, I could barely drink 1/3 of the bottle it was just gross/weird tasting. I’m glad I only got two bottles at the time because they both ended up in the garbage
Guessing some or all of those “lucky” enough to get the next IRK can look forward to getting a load of this.
@richrauch That’s more reason than I needed to just ignore the whole IRK thing for a while longer yet. Coffee is something I hate anyway, and coffee that’s past its sell-by date might still be “safe”, but that not going to make it “not coffee anymore” nor will it impress anyone I might try to foist it off upon.
My daughter loves these. They’re normally $2.50-$3.00. Granted, that’s for “unexpired” bottles, but still…
Lots of folks saying that ppl should just drink black coffee.
Heyyyy, some of us don’t get to just have coffee.
I’m 8 years post VSG (bariatric surgery.) I have to be very careful to manage the amount of protein I get in a day. Even before surgery, we’re taught to make every bite/sip count, and to be careful about caffeine and coffee in general, because of the effect it can have on digestion.
So, I get to have coffee in the morning, but it has to be “proffee” – protein + coffee. I use Premier Protein Cafe Latte with a Starbucks Via, iced or hot depending on the weather. That way I get a nice start on my protein intake for the day, the protein/dilution helps protect my stomach from the effects of the coffee, and I get the benefits of the caffeine dose. (It seems to reduce the migraines I get. No, I don’t mean caffeine withdrawal, those are different headaches!)
And with all of that, I still wouldn’t drink these. UGH, stevia. I’ll keep my sucralose, thank you.
@TrinSF Thanks for your health history but if u don’t like these, why even comment. We don’t care about your weight loss surgery.
BRADSFS
I want to cancel this order that I just placed 3 minutes ago. Why can’t I do that?
@wiseapple509
try going to meh.com/orders
if that doesnt work then https://meh.com/support
(be warned, they are a small company and responses might take a couple days)
We bought two bottles of this at a store once, we still have the second one in the fridge because we hated the first…just a warning
Just by chance, a friend passed a couple of bottles of the caramel ones on to me. I just tried one and really don’t like it. The monkfruit/stevia flavor reminds me of anise or licorice, which I hate.
Expired or nearly expired food… I think I’ll pass.
I want to make sure this is a one time purchase and not sure subscription service.
@angelamarie901 This is just a one-time purchase. No worries!
I purchased 48 of the vanilla and I think there great. I have tryed the others only to give them away because I didn’t like them.
It was EXPIRED.
MIne is EXPIRED TOO. I want a REFUND!!!
@mica489 As noted in both the listing AND the specs in the opening post:
@narfcake well I am not going to drink them.
Wow! I am so mad about this order, It says on here that the expiration but it is 7/3. I want a refund. If you need it returned, I most certainly will if you pay the shipping
I ordered variety packs. Received only Carmel
I received my order on 7/14/23 - when I opened up the order and looked at the bottles, they all had an expiration date of 7/3/23. I had to throw all of these away - such a waste of money.
Expired
Folks:
As noted in both the listing AND the specs in the opening post:
Well, I was looking forward to these and would’ve drank them because I know there was generally time after an expiration date that something is good. However, FedEx couldn’t get it to my house and delivered it somewhere else. I got a snapshot of a gray painted wall but not enough of the house to see it
Meh has been great about and refunded my money but I really wish whoever had gotten it would’ve tracked me down like I did with the Chewy order I got that day.
Received today, 7/28/83, Caromel expired on 7/2/23 and vanilla will expire in one week.
How come people who can’t read the specifications that clearly state the expiration dates are then able to read the small print on the actual bottle?
(Didn’t buy them - someone gave me some.)
@Kyeh I am convinced that the majority of consumers assume two things; first, that they do not really need to read all of the details, and second, that somebody, somewhere is always going to have done their homework for them.
I really believe that the only way we’ll cut down on this type of complaint is to feature the expiration date, with a header of “Cheap Because Somebody Bought Too Many” (or whatever, as fits) where that’s an actual statement of the representation for their remaindering. It won’t work when things come up like the reported-but-unverified metal flakes issue, or when an unscrupulous warehouse is dumping pallets of snack sausage because they left a trailer in the yard with its reefer turned off for too long, but when the proximity (or passage) of the store-shelf date is the only reason it got handed to a broker, that’s the best defense. Intentionally target only the bargain-hunters who like such deals, and they won’t complain.
I can’t predict if this would have enough negative impact on the sales to make the item a net loser, but as CYA, I like the odds it provides.
Fortunately for Meh, I don’t work here.
@werehatrack
Yeah - my question was figurative.
These do not taste good at all. I want a refund
I don’t mind it being expired. But it wasn’t delivered. I live at a house and theres a mailbox right in front but it wouldn’t fit there so it had to be left at door, nothing on cameras at any time on days before, on, and after it says delivered. Nada
@firemedic311 Contact Support at meh.com/support
I ordered six boxes, and I just ran out! Love, loved this offer and hope to see it again soon! They were delicious after the due date…never noticed a problem at all. I’ve been drinking these for two years, so I’m quite familiar and would notice if they were bad. Please, please do again…even my daughter asked last week if we could order again!!!