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RIP Espresso Martinis: Timothée Chalamet Prefers Rum & Coke

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The resurgent popularity of the espresso martini over the last five years has been, on a personal level, deeply concerning. It’s an objectively bad coffee cocktail. I’m sorry but it’s true. There are so many better combinations of coffee and booze that I truly cannot fathom how it took hold of so many people. I have an idea though: Timothée Chalamet.

Perhaps it’s just a coincidence that Chalamet was spotted drinking an espresso martini right before the cocktail craze reached a fever pitch. But I think it’s more than that.

The hot, young actor having an espresso martini at Sant Ambroeus with Larry David—admittedly a weird pairing—it’s all very aspirationally New York in a mostly unattainable way (because you don’t actually live there nor do you grab drinks with other famous people). But an espresso martini you can have.

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Chalamet did this is the point I’m trying to make here. And who better to finally put this bad coffee cocktail to rest once and for all than the person who started the whole craze to begin with. Turns out, Timothée Chalamet’s favorite cocktail is something far simpler: the classic rum and coke.

As reported by Taste of Home, the revelation came in an interview with Brittany Broski, where the actor stated that he actually isn’t much of a drinker at all, but when he does, his go-to is a rum and coke, Captain Morgan’s in particular. (Side note: most of my caloric input—and output, over-consumptively—during sophomore year of college came from this exact drink, so it holds a dear place in my heart, even if I never want to so much as smell one ever again.)

This is bad news for Big Espresso Martini, who’s been riding the Chalamet coattails for years now. But that ship has sailed, and it’s got a new captain, who is a pirate. Who this is good news for, though, is anyone who likes good-tasting coffee cocktails. First and foremost, spiced rum is a far superior bedfellow for coffee than vodka is, which already opens up a whole world of possibilities. Likewise, if we look at the other side of the rum and coke, coffee has a long history of intermingling with cola. Espresso and Dr. Pepper is strangely good. Hell, Coca-Cola created an entire line of Coke Plus Coffee beverages (that Pepsi shortly thereafter copied for their own line of Pepsi Cafe). It’s a flavor love triangle and everyone plays nicely together.

So I for one would like to thank Timothée Chalamet for finally ending the tyranny of the espresso martini. Finally we can get back to mixing our alcohol and caffeine like adults and drink Red Bull vodkas.

Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.

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