Coffee-mate Coffee Creamer, Sweetened Original, 1.5-Liter Pump Bottle (Pack of 2) by Coffee-mate

Package arrived intact and was delivered quickly. This creamer is really good value at the moment. It’s excellent quality, tastes great and I’m very happy with the seller and the product.

... here's another one that takes things into consideration that no one else has.I am at an advantage. My local Thornton's (which is like a AM/PM, 7/11, Quick Trip or Come and Go, depending on what part of the nation you live in), carries this product. So I got to try it out BEFORE I bought it. Now before I describe the taste, you need to know how I like my coffee.I REALLY DON'T.Allow me to explain. First off, the taste of coffee is as subjective as someone's favorite color. There are those who swear by Starbucks and others who want their coffee out of a gas station, from a dirty pot. So for anyone to claim that the product has a certain taste is really nothing more than their personal opinion. Without knowing how someone likes their coffee, you cannot really judge what the product taste like using their opinion. It is simply that, their personal opinion. So your question should be, "Well, how do you like YOUR coffee Mr. Junkman?" I'm glad you asked.I like my coffee WEAK, and I mean REALLY WEAK. I usually get the breakfast blend version of any coffee offered and split that with half a cup of boiling hot water (because I love my coffee boiling hot). I drink my coffee with HEAVY CREAM AND SUGAR. Most folks say that I like a little coffee with my cream and sugar. I never cared for dairy creamers, only the non-dairy, powdered stuff so the only reason I even tried this stuff was because it claimed to have the sweetener mixed in. Since it takes me 10-minutes to get one cup of coffee just right, I saw this product as a way to kill two birds with one stone. A lot of people claim that my coffee looks more like a cup of tea because of how weak I like it. Thus, I guess I really don't like coffee because you couldn't pay me a million dollars to drink a cup of coffee from Starbucks or any other place where they make it so strong that it would grow hair on your toe nails.Given how weak I like my coffee, I still squirt about 12 pumps of this stuff into my coffee, just to get it the way I like. For me, it tasted great! Better than the non-dairy creamer version of this product. It was so good, that I paid this OUTRAGEOUS cost to get TWO bottles of this stuff. I thought that I would be able to stockpile it in the refrigerator until I found out that IT CAN'T BE REFRIGERATED. Once you open the product, it is only good for around 30-DAYS. I was wondering how a dairy product doesn't go bad while sitting out all day until I realized that it really doesn't contain any dairy product. I don't know what it is but I like the taste.Hold on a minute, I need to go reheat my coffee.Okay, I'm back. For those of you who haven't tried this product, understand this. The consistency of the product is like maple syrup. It is VERY sweet, just like honey. To me, it taste better than the dairy version of the same brand because it already has some kind of sweetener in it. Also, the bottle/pump design is kinda crap. You need to place the bottle on a hard surface (like a counter), and FIRMLY press down on the pump WITH YOUR CUP BEING HELD CLOSE TO THE SPIGOT. If you don't do it this way, you will squirt product in no telling what direction and create a sticky mess. They need to do a redesign of that bottle because the present design is pitiful.The only problem that I have with this product is THE COST and the pump design. The price is ridiculous but I can clearly see the advantage to a business that offers coffee to their customers. The bottle is kinda big so it shouldn't disappear off the counter and you don't have to refrigerate it. If you don't drink a lot of coffee, this will EASILY last you MORE than a month so you are probably going to end up wasting it after 30-days (which is the amount of time that the product is best used by). As long as you don't open it, the product will probably last for a seriously long time but once you break the seal under the cap, 30-DAYS. Also, and this is VERY important, ONCE YOU SCREW ON THE PUMP, IT CANNOT BE REMOVED!!! With that said, make sure that you UNLOCK the pump BEFORE placing it on the bottle. Also, READ THE INSTRUCTION on the bottle about how to place the pump on the bottle.So this concludes another episode of War & Peace. I hope that you found this helpful. I've included some pictures of how my product arrived because I have seen that some people have experience some less than spectacular shipping issues. My product arrived intact with no leaks, a pump for each bottle and my first cup of Folgers Breakfast Blend coffee was to my satisfaction. :)The Junkman

Absolutely love liquid coffeemate. Wish we sold it in UK as expensive to keep buying from States.

Once you put the pump onto the bottle, it’s permanently there—you won’t be able to get it off. So the first bottle was fine, but the second bottle had a faulty pump and every morning I make a mess—and burn my hand—bc the dang pump puts out mostly air and I cannot readjust it. I’m tempted to throw the nearly-full bottle into the rubbish bc I cannot handle cleaning up another coffee sprayed across my kitchen workspace and the spitting tiny bits of sweetener cause my coffee to splash and now I have been wearing rubber gloves every morning just to avoid being burned by the backsplash due to this faulty pump. I’m exhausted by this and bc I bought in bulk, the window to return closed Sept 9th but I did not even put the pump in until after that date!! So thanks to my planning ahead, I’ve missed my window to confront seller about a fault. Be careful—be sure all is attached correctly before you attach the pump people!!! Otherwise you’ll have burned hands or if you’re lucky you’ll even get to dump yours in the bin like I’m going to have to end up doing. :(. Please ignore the dirty spoon in my video – I’m about to clean my kitchen I’m sorry. But you can see clearly that the pump is a frustration. I wish I could do something about it at this point. It’s a headache every single morning of my life I’m so tempted to just throw it away…I ended up having to take a knife to it and decanted into another bottle. More than half of it ended up down the sink. Be weary of those pumps.

I used to have this item in the “sweetened original” flavor as a constant regular delivery on my subscribe & save once I’d worked out about how quickly I used it.Pros-1. The normal price of the 2-pack (or even single) is SO much cheaper than the equivalent amount of sugar & cream/milk you’d use to get the same results per cup. Normally for a 2-pack it’s about $17/32oz bottle with 1 pump=1 large plastic peel top cream like you see in gas stations. Using about 12-14 pumps/day for coffee and hot chocolate one bottle lasts about a month and the milk alone would have cost more than that. Not to mention once you know how many pumps you like making your coffee goes a LOT faster: just pour, pump however many times, stir, and done (if you like more milk than sugar or opposite, just use fewer pumps and add extra milk or sugar).2. If you average making at least one large size cup or more than one regular size cup of coffee a day at home with cream/milk & sweetener of some kind, even if you’re taking it with you to drink, this product is DEFINITELY worth it. It’s good for over a month sitting out once opened, doesn’t mention refrigeration at all (maybe it wouldn’t pump properly if it was that cold and thickened from it), can sit around for at LEAST a year unopened, and the last time I checked (admittedly it’s been a couple years so they could have changed the recipe) it’s real dairy product (highly condensed with preservatives and flavoring) and real sugar so it’s NOT for diabetics. There are other flavors available sugar-free.3. Huge time saver since it’s fewer steps for every cup.4. This particular flavor also works VERY well for hot cocoa or chocolate to add just a bit of sweetness or a lot of sweetness without trying to make the water or milk (whichever you used) hold more density than it should or can.Cons-1. Unfortunately it’s not been regularly available for over a year now (as of the date of this review 8/2023) except at ridiculous prices that aren’t worth it no matter how good and convenient it is (around $55 for the 2-pack and $30 for the single). You can find Hazelnut and French Vanilla at reasonable prices, but for some reason the Sweetened Original and more exotic flavors like Mint Chocolate are fairly consistently high priced other than the random times you find it back at normal price like nothing happened.2. When you DO happen to find it in stock at regular price, it doesn’t generally do you any good with subscribe & save as that will have changed by the time it’s actually time to charge you and ship it. It’s best to just go ahead and “buy now” if you see the price in the $3_ something range.That’s it. I always have it around at home. It’s absolutely wonderful for any beverage you like cream and sugar in which is why I avoid the flavored options. It’s just a matter of finding it, and finding it at a cost effective price but I actually DO take the time hunt this down with various sellers for a decent price if I’m running low.