January 24, 2006

The coffee jelly hunt

So I've tasted Starbucks, and Seattle's Best's coffee jelly.

Now I've tried New York Cafe's, the cheapest so far among the three.

Starbucks
- The Jelly: Firm, small jelly cubes
- The Jelly taste: Coffee taste in jelly is strong
- The Jelly amount: They put plenty of coffee jelly :)
- The Frappe Mixture: Good proportions of cream and coffee in the frappe.
- Intangibles: Good innovation: the jelly straw!

Seattle's Best
- The Jelly: Small jelly cubes, not as firm as Starbucks, maybe even smaller than Starbucks
- The Jelly taste: Coffee taste in jelly is slight, or none at all.
- The Jelly amount: Lesser amount than Starbucks
- The Frappe Mixture: Good proportions of cream and coffee in the frappe, but tastes more like ice cream than coffee.
- Intangibles: None.

New York Cafe
- The Jelly: Large (around 1/3 of an inch), soft jelly cubes
- The Jelly taste: Doesn't taste like coffee
- The Jelly amount: A lot.
- The Frappe Mixture: Cream overpowers the coffee, cream too much.
- Intangibles: Cheapest among the three

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