Coffee milk, little known outside of New England, has become a hot topic this fall thanks to Dunkin's limited-time product, Dunkaratte.
A typical latte combines a milk base and espresso. Dancaret is a combination of coffee milk and espresso.
Adding coffee milk to the drink meant that Dunkin' not only had to sell Dunka Latte across the United States, but it also had to let others know exactly what the phrase “coffee milk” meant.
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Jill McVicar Nelson, Chief Marketing Officer, Dunkin' It was difficult to implement,” he said in a statement. Fox News Digital.
The news of Dankaratte's coffee milk base also prompted politicians to express their excitement.
Dankaratte, a combination of coffee milk and espresso, introduced coffee milk to a broader audience beyond New England when it debuted this summer. (Dunkin)
rhode island Gov. Dan McKee (D) posted a “Galaxy Brain” meme on X in late August, saying the combination of coffee milk and Dunkin' iced coffee has the “biggest brain.”
Gov. Maura Healey (D-Mass.), a fellow New Englander, later cited McKee's meme.
She added the following explanation: “No non-New Englander mind can understand this.”
But what is coffee milk?
And why is it so popular in New England but almost unheard of in other areas?
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What is coffee milk?
Little Rhodey Foods CEO Eli Berkowitz told Fox News Digital in a phone interview that coffee milk is made by adding coffee-flavored syrup to milk.
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It's the same as adding chocolate syrup or strawberry syrup to milk to make chocolate milk or strawberry milk.
Little Rhody Foods is a distributor of three major brands of coffee syrup: Autocrat, Coffee Time, and Eclipse. Although this syrup is not brewed coffee, it does contain coffee extract according to the ingredient list.
Coffee Time, Eclipse, and Autocrat are the three major brands of coffee syrup. Mix the syrup with milk to make coffee milk. (Little Rowdy Foods)
“This is a Rhode Island tradition,” Berkowitz said. “Once you leave [Rhode Island]when you head to New York, they all think you're talking about something else. They don't know anything. ”
He added: “It's just weird that it's just a Rhode Island thing.”
Berkowitz, like many Rhode Islanders, has been drinking coffee milk since childhood.
“I think it was a way to get kids to drink more milk.”
“For whatever reason, it was a New England staple. That's how we all grew up,” he said. “I'm 65 years old and that's what I've always wanted.”
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Berkowitz says coffee milk doesn't taste exactly like regular hot coffee.
”[There’s] It just tastes sweet. That's what it is,'' he said.
Coffee milk was designated Rhode Island's official “state beverage” in 1993. (Creative Commons; iStock)
Products do contain caffeine, but it varies by brand, Berkowitz noted.
Still, he said the superficial resemblance to drinks typically consumed by older adults may be why it was popular with children.
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“When the kids were growing up, I think mom and dad had coffee together. [it was] “Can I have that? ” Something like that. ” he said.
“It tastes like melted coffee ice cream!”
A parent tells a child to drink coffee milk instead of coffee because “coffee is dark in color.''
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“I think it was a way to get kids to drink more milk,” Berkowitz said.
“If the kids don't like regular milk, we sweeten it a little. [syrup]. ”
On June 29, 1993, coffee milk was adopted as Rhode Island's “state beverage,” according to the Rhode Island Secretary of State's website.
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Deputy Secretary of State Rob Locke called himself a “huge coffee milk fan.”
In an email to Fox News Digital, Rock shared his favorite way to prepare the drink.
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“Coffee milk tastes best when drunk with the right balance of autocrat coffee syrup and milk, preferably 2%,” he said.
“It tastes like melted coffee ice cream!”
