Well, we really shouldn’t be surprised by now that regarding Japanese items, the cuteness extends to drinks.

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I like the flavor of tea. And I like the consistency of coffee with milk or half-and-half. I got this drink because of the promise of both those things.

I just want to point out something that I think is pretty ingenious about this item—the advertising found on both sides of its neck. Here you see an ad for a Green Tea N’ Cream drink (the other side displayed a picture of Thai Tea Powder).

The advertising doesn’t involve only pictures, though. It also includes the words, “Made from finest ingredients.” (The distributor of this drink is a company called Taste Nirvana.)

So did this drink meet the hype?

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I was all over this drink as a kid.

And again, I think it was because of the design.

The bottles were small, measuring about 3 inches tall and 1.5 inches wide, with a foil top.

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I would have been all over this drink as a kid…

mostly because of its Capri Sun-like pouch…

and screw-top. I wouldn’t have been attracted to its flavor; I probably would have thought, “Coffee? Gross! That’s what adults drink and adults are lame.”

But now, as part of the 18 and older crowd, the coffee flavor most definitely drew me in…and the pouch design.

So, the flavor. I really liked it. I like my coffee with cream or half-and-half, and this Coffee Shake tasted like coffee with either addition. The flavor was smooth and pleasant, and not sickeningly sweet like some milk shakes can be.

To drink this item, you squeeze from the bottom to the top and suck at the same time. The effort and painfully numb fingers afterwards were worth it.

This would be a handy thing to have in the freezer if you wanted to drink a milk shake but didn’t want to make or go out to buy one.

And the Milk Shake flavor? Equally as delicious.

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I know someone, and by ’someone’ I don’t mean me, who used to love eating sweeteners from little packets (think Equal and Splenda) as a kid. Forget lollipops, who needed those when he could tear into a packet of sweetener. That’s all fine and good (well, not really), but there’s an easier way to get a whole lot of sweetness, fast.

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