Pinkberry’s New Flavor - Coffee
Sunday, January 20, 2008 20:22
If you haven’t heard, Pinkberry is serving a new flavor of “chilly delight” — coffee. I wont go so far to call it brown berry or dingle berry, but it’s not my favorite combo.
The other night I went into the Sawtelle location (no line BTW) with full intentions of ordering a whole cup of coffee yogurt. When I walked up to the counter, the friendly folks offered a sample of their new flavor. I said sure, and ended up with a heaping taster cup, probably about 1/4 of a small sized order.
I took a first bite — hmmm, not a whole lot of coffee flavor there. Oh, there it is, is this Sanka? Oh, it’s probably Starbucks…
Next bite — This just is not my thing. I love coffee, I love coffee ice cream. This taste sort of like very weak coffee with a little sour milk in it. My mouth is trained to automatically reject coffee with spoiled milk, a reaction learned from eating at cheap diners who leave their little metal creamers in the sun all morning.
Third bite — Ok, that’s enough, I’m not even going to finish this sample, glad they gave it to me though.
So I didn’t go through with it, I ended up ordering a small original with blueberries and Fruity Pebbles.
Does anyone sell Sanka anymore? I read a rumor that the reason why decaf coffee pots are often orange in restaurants is because of the association with the orange Sanka label and decaf. I drank a lot of Sanka on a high school trip back east. I have no idea why. It definitely wasn’t cool and did nothing to keep me awake.
Back to the topic at hand. It seems like Pinkberry is offering big sized samples to whoever asks for one, so taste for your self. Me? I’m getting my coffee frozen delights at Bennett’s.
Pinkberry
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(Picture via Pinkberry.com)
By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.
Catherine says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
For a moment there Jonah I think I could taste the new coffee flavored yogurt. Thanks for the descriptive post! Personally, coffee-flavored-sweet-and-sour-anything is much like mint candy, best on the tongue when enjoyed just for a moment. Free sample or not, I think I’m sticking with my Mayan mochas, from Swork’s and Leonida’s, this winter. :)
Pauline says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I actually enjoy Pinkberry. I tried the coffee flavor just on Saturday night and was incredibly turned off by Pinkberry for the first time.
I’ll be sure to try Bennett’s the next time I’m at Farmer’s Market. :)
MaxMillion says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Hey Jonah, I know what you mean when you say your palate is trained to reject sour coffee. Froyo and coffee doesn’t sound like a good idea at all.
I’ve never actually bought a serving of pinkberry. Several times I’ve gone in and asked for a sample and that seemed to quench my cold craving quite sufficiently. One day when I’m feeling hungry enough I s’pose I’ll place an order. I like the plain flavour well enough, but if I’m going for something cold and creamy, I think it needs to be gelato.
BUT the last time I went in to scoop up a freebie I was with a friend and the gal made one sample then split into two sample cups. Boo hoo!
MaxMillion says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
What a divine promotion image!
apn says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:41 am
JOHNNY ROCKETS USES SANKA FOR THEIR SHAKES!
Daily Olive says:
January 31st, 2008 at 6:43 am
If you do a side by side taste test with Red Mango yogurt, you might convince yourself that the sour taste in Pinkberry is really lemon and not the natural sourness of plain yogurt.
That said, the PB coffee flavor is weak like everyone else has experienced, and that mingled with lemon overtones makes this new coffee flavor a bad combo. I don’t know anyone who drinks their coffee with lemon.
Jonah says:
January 31st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I haven’t tried Red Mango yet. I should go check out the one in Westwood.