What Is Coffee Milk? A Rhode Islander Explains

Food & Wine ^ | Stacey Leasca

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Syrup from a mixture of leftover coffee grounds, milk, and sugar.

I can just feel myself picking coffee grounds out of my mouth for a couple of hours. Just when you think you’ve got them all, a few more that were hiding out somewhere among the molars pop out to annoy you.

[nwrep]

[nickcarraway]

Sounds like more exercise?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here is Dave's Coffee syrup...might be worth a try. Growing up, I remember Mom adding a couple of teaspoons of black coffee to my milk. I recall how good that was. I wonder if it's anything like "coffee milk."

[nickcarraway]

Who is that?

[CTyank]

New York System, two weenies all the way with a coffee milk!

If your hungry after the bars close in downtown Providence, nothing beats Haven Brothers!

[x]

It's commercially produced now, basically just like chocolate milk only coffee flavored, so coffee grounds aren't a problem.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Stacey can pick the coffee grounds out of my teeth any time.

[mikey_hates_everything]

There’s a $19k machine at the data center I frequently visit that can dispense a triple espresso and hot chocolate in one cup. I don’t care how many relatives in Italy are disgusted by that, I like it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Sounds like any one of the dozens of cold coffee and milk beverages available from many companies.

[rightwingcrazy]

I had an Indian friend who insisted that it was invented in India.

[ansel12]

“”””Rhode Island sure is a unique place. It’s the smallest state in the nation, covering just 1,214 square miles. “””””

That is getting fairly close to twice the size of Houston.

[TexasGator]

I bet you empty coffee grounds into your morning cup?

[PAR35]

I’ll stick with the traditional Eiskaffee. Pour hot black coffee over vanilla ice cream, stir until the ice cream is completely melted. Serve cold. Some recipes add whipped cream for a richer flavor.

[Responsibility2nd]

Yes, coffee milk. No, it's not coffee with milk or milk with coffee. It's a wholly unique creation that is all ours. It all began in the 1920s, according to RhodeTour.org, a website by the Rhode Island Humanities and the Rhode Island Historical Society, when Italian immigrants brought their love of sweetened coffee to the state. It became so popular that a soda fountain operator in one of Rhode Island's diners developed a coffee syrup by thickening a mixture of leftover coffee grounds, milk, and sugar. And with that added to milk, and voilá, coffee milk. People loved it so much that in 1993, it became our state drink. It was an absolute staple in our house as the ultimate after-school treat, a slumber party must, and sometimes, just because. As a college student at the University of Rhode Island, I even had it in the dining halls, and the university still serves a coffee milkshake in the Ram's Den today.

 

So it IS coffee with milk. Or milk with coffee.

Sheesh.

[skr]

I think the key word is syrup. I suspect they cook the mix into syrup and then filter from there. I doubt it’s just a blend like one makes into a smoothie.

[PAR35]

Land area is about twice the size of Big Bend state park.But Rhode Island is only a little bit bigger than DFW.

DFW- roughly 590,000 acres.
Rhode Island (land area) - roughly 776,000 acres.

[Responsibility2nd]

My wife mixes coffee with milk. 50/50. Then adds sugar.

So now I know. She drinks coffee milk.

[ansel12]

The city of Houston is 640 square miles.