Hello all of you out there in internet land, we meet again. It’s a week and two days away from turkey day so it’s time to review the … huh? … “Hey Brad, am I reading this right?” … “I am?” … “You say they released it November 4th?” … “And you’re currently rocking around the Christmas tree?” Well, I’ll leave him to his dancing self, and all of you, yes you, can follow this sentence to the next paragraph for a spectacular story about the Dunkin Donuts Gingerbread Latte.
Every year the holidays come around and Thanksgiving gets passed up for everything except a Charles Schulz special and turkey. Hell, they are putting Christmas stuff out for sale around Halloween time. Sooner or later they’ll probably just do away with the holiday all together and people will just eat turkey sandwiches as a lingering remnant. Dunkin Donuts released two lattes in the beginning of october, caramel apple and pumpkin, for part of their Fall lineup. So I guess since Thanksgiving takes place in the Fall (although there is no Fall in Florida), they kinda did cover it. Dunkin Donuts is just ahead of the game I suppose.
It got cold here for a whole week and people have already brought out their parkas, winter coats, scarves, mittens, snow tires… well maybe not the tires, but people think it’s cold here. And by cold I mean cool. The lows at night were mid 40s. This is the perfect time for warm winter drinks and hoping for snow, although we’ll never see it down here. The Gingerbread Latte reminds me of my early childhood in Illinois sitting by the fireplace in sweaters knitted by grandma, singing carols. Ah the good ol’ days. Just sitting here thinking about sipping this coffee make me — oh the coffee, right!
The first thing I tasted was caramel, while the aftertaste is really where the gingerbread comes through. The taste lingers in your mouth as if you had just bitten the head off a gingerbread man. There is no syrupy taste to it. The latte is very rich and creamy, so you black coffee drinkers beware, unless you’re looking to get into the holiday spirit. It was the perfect tongue temperature for an experienced jo drinker like myself. It was hot, but not scalding. Sorry, I forgot to bring a thermometer for specifics. Unlike the advertised picture, it’s topped with a layer of whipped cream followed by some caramel drizzle. I was kind of let down that I didn’t get any of the colorful holiday sprinkle topping toppings. For the medium that i drank, it weighs in at 330 calories, 9 grams of fat, 40mg of cholesterol, 210 mg or sodium and 51 grams of carbs, at $3.09.
I truly enjoyed this coffee. It lifted my spirits after a hard day at the workplace and gave me the capacity to actually work on some homework. It didn’t put me in the holiday spirit per say, but when black friday comes around and I’m sitting outside of stores waiting for them to open I know who I’m running to: Dunkin.
