What I’m Drinking – 7-Eleven Iced Coffee

The Drink: 7-Elven Iced Coffees

Overall Rating: 2 out of 5 cups

I’ve suffered so that you don’t have to. Last week, I tasted the new “coffee” drinks from 7-Eleven. Yes, even 7-Eleven is trying to get into the coffee wars. They’ve always had stale coffees that have been sitting there all day, overly sweet cappuccino like drinks and now they’re offering iced “coffee.” They’re even running a month long marketing promotion and offering the drinks at reduced prices to get our attention. I’m thinking they should use the money they’re spending on their promotions and go back to the drawing board to, I don’t know, make their coffees taste like coffee.

I tried their Mocha iced coffee first. It reminded me a lot of the canned Starbuck’s Doubleshot drinks, just with a lot lower quality flavor. It tasted more like a liquid candy bar than anything I would definite as coffee. In fact, I’m going to go out on a limb and say it didn’t taste like coffee at all.

The other flavor is French Vanilla and it wasn’t much better. It was sweet, easy to drink, but the word coffee really shouldn’t be used on the label.

I’m giving these drinks a rating of 2 coffee cups out of 5. The only reason that they didn’t get a 1 rating is because they were very easy to drink and I’d consider going back in a caffeine emergency.

It wasn’t just the coffee that made me want to leave and think twice about coming back. The dispenser area was a mess and I was afraid to even put my cup down.

Then there was a long line at the register because the lotto machine was broken and was tying up one employee, while the other employee ignored the customers and worked on stocking the floor. I waited long enough where I started to think about just leaving the drink behind and heading down the Starbucks down the street. I probably could’ve gotten a real coffee drink in less time.

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Photo by Stranglv

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My coworker and friend, Lace was going to leave this as a comment, but I thought it was worth adding to the actual blog post, especially since he included a picture of him drinking the 7-Eleven coffee while reading this blog.

First off, I’m not coffee guru by far but do enjoy it quite often. I love the iced and blended drinks personally, so this is great for me.

I’ve had quite a few of these lately since the only local store around here is the 7-11 without driving 10 miles. I have to say, I enjoy them. They remind me of Burger King’s BK Joe – almost exactly, which I do love thanks to Extreme John!

You brought up the fact that there isn’t much of a coffee taste at all. In my opinion, there’s a very very mild hint of coffee – which could be good, if you like that, which I do.

I prefer to mix both the french vanilla and mocha flavors without any ice and it usually comes out quite decent. I love the sweetness too, unlike DD’s 2 inches of sugar at the bottom.

For 99 cents, I’ll take it. Anything is better then paying $5 for a cup of joe!

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