The commercials always made it sound so chic. Was it crap? Do they still make it?
Trivia: the wonderful singer Phoebe Snow sang the vocals on those commercials. “Celebrate The Moments of Your Life”!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 29, 2018 1:56 AM |
Weren’t they mostly sugar?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 29, 2018 1:58 AM |
They’re flavored instant coffee. Yes they were crap.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 29, 2018 2:00 AM |
They were more like coffee flavored hot chocolate than coffee.
If you thought of them in that light, they were fine for instant hot chocolate.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 29, 2018 2:11 AM |
Thank you OP. I never drank the stuff, but my late mother drank Cafe Vienna all the time. You brought back fond memories of her for me tonight.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 29, 2018 3:02 AM |
You can still order some of the flavors on Amazon. I haven't seen it in a store for a long time. I really loved them when I was young, and I hadn't been exposed to good coffee, although I think I would freak out now with all the sugar.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 31, 2018 11:30 PM |
The orange cappuccino was divine.
The commercials themselves were very lesbian according to one of my deranged friends.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 31, 2018 11:41 PM |
IIRC, you’d never mix a full teapot of it like in those commercials, though. How many cups were you going to drink??
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 31, 2018 11:52 PM |
I just bought some a month ago from the end cap in Target. They tasted better in the 80s because we Americans didn’t know good coffee then. It’s basically coffee flavored sugar.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 31, 2018 11:55 PM |
My sister brought me a few tins a few years ago. I may have one in my spice cabinet still.
It’s sugary, flavored instant coffee and I swear they added a sudsing agent to make the “foam” on the cappuccino.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 1, 2018 12:09 AM |
OP, they still exist. There was a rebranding 9 years ago. The new name is Maxwell House International Coffee.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 1, 2018 12:13 AM |
Was there.a mint flavored one? I think that’s the one my mom liked. The 80s, LOL.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 1, 2018 12:17 AM |
I think there was, r14. Right now I have the Pumpkin Spice Latte one that my sister brought me. It’s unopened because I don’t drink that stuff.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 1, 2018 1:26 AM |