“Pocket Coffee” Isn’t What You’d Expect

You can find a lot of stuff in pockets—even inside of uselessly shallow women’s jeans pockets. Sometimes it’s $5 that we forgot we squirreled away. More often, it’s lint or a piece of gum. But coffee? Even I, in my foggy pre-caffeine morning routine or all-nighter-induced desperation, have never resorted to putting coffee in my pockets. That’s why I was so surprised to come across the phrase “Pocket Coffee” on the internet. 

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What is Pocket Coffee?

After the initial, admittedly dumb assumption that it meant transforming your normal pocket into an insulated pouch to fill with liquid coffee that would be free to slosh around like water in a Camelbak hydration bladder, I thought, “Of course! It’s a packet of instant coffee that you can carry around!” Still not the answer. “Right, right. It has to be a cute name for a tiny cup of coffee, or an espresso shot.” Wrong again. It’s actually a chocolate candy by Ferrero Rocher.

What does Pocket Coffee taste like?

I thought Pocket Coffee would be a coffee-flavored chocolate or a small bag of chocolate covered espresso beans. But that would be too simple. Pocket Coffee is actually a chocolate shell filled with about a shot’s worth of espresso. Yup, actual liquid espresso. Never let ‘em know your next move, Ferrero. 

Is Pocket Coffee new?

Pocket Coffee has actually been around since the ’60s, it’s just gained a lot of traction for being difficult to buy outside of Europe, specifically Italy. It’s a rare example of playing hard to get actually working. You can get it on Amazon, but it’s a little on the costly side, and the price is subject to its seasonal production.