The sweetest strawberries shall grow in the sea

[sovay]

Courtesy of nineweaving: I don't understand its purpose as a coffee substitute, but a seaweed-flavored coconut-milk drink with ginger and lemon sounds otherwise very nearly designed for me. I don't expect to find out any time soon, since at the moment it is fiendishly trendy, equally expensive, and available only in Australia, but maybe it will go global-viral and I'll get the chance. I don't really care about antioxidants, but I do like kelp.

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[phi]

I saw a bottled thing that was marginally similar (coffee-replacement with coconut and seaweed and god knows what else) at the co-op in brattleboro yesterday. If I had known it was sonya-bait I would have picked one up for you, but my reaction to it was *wrinkled nose* I'll just take my coffee pleaseandthankyou.

[sovay]

If I had known it was sonya-bait I would have picked one up for you, but my reaction to it was *wrinkled nose* I'll just take my coffee pleaseandthankyou.

That is an entirely reasonable reaction! And if it's really intended to replicate some aspect of the coffee experience beyond the basic commonalities of "hot and comes up in a cup from a coffeeshop," it's entirely possible that I won't like it—I know for a fact that chicory coffee contains no caffeine, but it has enough of the same burnt brown flavor as actual coffee that it's always tasted like a warning. I just know that I like all of those ingredients and there's no reason for the combination to be automatically disgusting. Here's hoping, anyway.