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Does anyone other than Starbucks sell it? I'd like to try it but am skeptical of Yet Another fad.

OT: "low-fat cappuccino whose foam and syrup have been spiked with an extract made from a blend of sugar and ground-up dried coffee husk" -- low-fat + loads of sugar is an oxymoron. The sugar industry is killing us all.

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Fat is fat, sugar is a carb. They are different macro nutrients, so I don't know why you think low fat and high sugar is an oxymoron.

It's true but probably misleading to the people who the advertisement line is directed to. Of course, that's definitely the intention. It seems odd that anyone would want to have a low-fat diet voluntarily.

Lots of diets are odd. Plus it's just a coffee beverage, not soylent; it's not supposed to be your whole diet.

Personally, I prefer the taste of low-fat milk.

I prefer skim milk in coffee because fat doesn't mix well. I also don't like sugar in my coffee, but that's an independent matter.

I think the idea is that people generally say "low fat" to mean healthy (even though that's not true). The "+ sugar" just makes it doubly more unhealthy. The drink itself is the oxymoron.

Ah, so it makes sense as long as we assume the words being used don't mean what they actually mean. Ok.

>low-fat + loads of sugar is an oxymoron

What! Are sugar cubes oxymorons to you?

I read like this "low-fat" == "I-care-about-my-health" ... but I don't care about sugar.

Or maybe I'm missing why people get low-fat milk. I find the full fat tastes better.

Some people prefer skim milk because they grew up on a farm, and the milk was always skimmed in order to produce cream/butter.

Low-fat is the actual name used for the type of milk used in this particular cap, it’s not an advertising trick or anything.

I dislike starbucks but tried it there anyways. Actually really nice as a foam on top of a nitro cold brew. Won't be getting it again but I'd say it is worth having one time.

Not an oxymoron, but perhaps "moronic" to do for health reasons.

You are right. Not an oxymoron in the literal sense, but a contraction (unless there's good reason to avoid the trivial amount of fat in full-fat milk).

I have gotten a coffee based hot drink and been repelled by the oily blobs floating on it, because nothing emulsifies them. There are generally multiple reasons for any given preference.

If nothing emulsified milkfat in milk the milk would separate.

Yes, that's what I'm saying appears to happen.

Well, no, you're saying it separates in coffee, which is a different thing. It's the acidity of the coffee.

That was the context of my original remark.

Strictly speaking it's not true that nothing is emulsifying them; just not enough to withstand the acidic mix they're in.

See my other comment, a friend of mine sells it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126881

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