Guy Fieri's new line of Flavortown coffee

Guy Fieri, the celebrity chef (well, more of a celebrity "dude who eats stuff on television" these days) everyone loves to hate is back, this time making a big splash with a line of flavored K-cup coffees. Dubbed "everything that's wrong with America" by some, Fieri's coffee flavors are… unique, to say the least.

He offers three somewhat normal-sounding blends: Diner Blend, a French roast unnecessarily called Redwood Roast, and a decaf (which he naturally calls "Unleaded"). Then there are the other flavors, the big hitters in Fieri's caffeinated line-up: Bananas Foster, Caramel Apple Bread Pudding, Chocolate Mint, Hot Fudge Brownie, and Hazelnut Cinnamon Roll.

Personally I am befuddled by flavored coffees. They never end up tasting the way they smell. At best you get a dose of weird chemical flavor with your coffee. At worst, it just tastes like regular old coffee.

If you want a bananas foster-flavored coffee, the only legitimate way to do it is to buy a flavored creamer. This has the benefit of working on any kind of base coffee that you want. It also tastes about a million times better than a flavored coffee.

My question is, do Fieri's little K-cups just contain flavored coffee? Or do they have dairy powder and sugar too, to make it a latte? (My understanding is that some K-cups are a "just add hot water" latte, although I have not tried them myself.)

Personally, I would never drink a Caramel Apple Bread Pudding latte. Not my thing. I like my coffee to be mainly coffee-flavored. Maybe a little splash of vanilla flavor if I'm feeling wild. But some people like the elaborate dessert-themed coffee drinks, and more power to them. I mainly just question how much Guy Fieri we all need in our lives, and wonder when his encroachment into our lives is going to stop.

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