The 2004 movie Mean Girls is turning 20 next year, which means a couple of things: We are all hurtling toward death at breakneck speed and we are also about to be bombarded with Mean Girls-themed products designed to appeal to people who are flirting with 40. Nestlé is getting in on that aging millennial action with pink frosting-flavored Mean Girls Coffee-mate coffee creamer, which is set to hit stores in January 2024. Is Mean Girls coffee creamer “so fetch?” (Sorry, but you should get used to enduring inelegantly shoehorned-in Mean Girls references now.) Get in, loser. (Sigh.) We got our hands on a promo bottle to find out.
Mean Girls Coffee-mate coffee creamer is light pink and thick and meant to taste like pink frosting. Well, since “pink” is not a flavor, I’m not totally certain what pink frosting tastes like besides sugar and a few dabs of red food coloring, but this creamer definitely tastes like thick, vanilla-spiked strawberry milk when you taste it on its own. Coffee creamer is always pretty saccharine when you sip it solo, but something about this flavor profile is extra, extra sweet.
Pros: If you like sweet coffee, you may like this. Or you may not. I actually really like sweet coffee (Chobani Sweet Cream is muh shit and some of the best coffee creamer, period), but I don’t think the slap-you-in-the-face sweetness of artificial strawberry flavor necessarily meshes will with the flavor of coffee; it certainly didn’t mesh with the flavor of French roast brewed in our office Keurig. This makes me sound like I’m 400 years old when I’m actually squarely in this product’s target demo, but the taste and smell of pink frosting-flavored Coffee-mate reminded me of flavored pipe tobacco.
Cons: We already touched on some cons in the pros section (whoops), but another downside of this Mean Girls Coffee-mate creamer is that it’s just not pink enough to turn your coffee pink. I do not personally care to drink pink coffee, but if that’s why you’re buying this pink creamer, you might be disappointed. The only way to get that pink effect is to froth the creamer before you add it to your coffee, and I sort of doubt people who are approaching 40 are searching for extra steps to add to their morning routines.
Howdy! I’m Gwynedd, Sporked’s managing editor. I live in Los Angeles and have access to the best tacos the U.S. has to offer—but I’m a sucker for a crunchy Old El Paso taco night every now and then. I’ve been at Sporked since 2022 and I’m still searching frozen mozzarella sticks that can hold a candle to restaurant sticks.
Why you should trust me: I’ve been a journalist for 20 years (yikes), a consumer of food for 40-plus years, and I’m truly hard pressed to think of foods I don’t like (or that I can’t tolerate at the very least). Oh and one time I cooked my way through Guy Fieri’s cookbook and wrote about the journey through Flavortown.
What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s Original Savory Thins. Fat free plain yogurt (usually Fage or Nancy’s). Honeycrisp apples. Sweet cream coffee creamer for my at-home Americanos. A frozen cauliflower crust pizza and some jarred mushrooms to top it with. Old El Paso Stand ‘N Stuff taco shells and Gardein Ground Be’f, even though I think “be’f” is a nightmarish contraction.
Favorite ranking: Stouffer’s frozen dinners. I don’t own a microwave (I get my cancers the old fashioned way!), so I love taste testing things that I don’t really buy to eat at home.
Least favorite ranking: Soy sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love soy sauce—but consuming that much sodium in one sitting is probably illegal in some countries. Our frozen enchilada taste test was a close second; the smell of microwaved corn tortillas still haunts me.
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Gwynedd Stuart
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