Weโre a little late to this whole โIce-T tries coffee for the first timeโ party, but now that weโre here, we donโt want to leave. The original video by Coffee Meets Bagelโthe dating app who put the rapper-turned-actor up to the challengeโwas posted a month ago, but Ice-Tโs reaction to his first sip is so pure it bears bringing back up. He is all of us at the start of our coffee journey.
For his first ever taste of coffee in his 60 years on this earth, Ice-T does the unadvisable thing and dives straight into coffee by taking it black. No cream, no sugar. I say โunadvisableโ because this is how I had my first taste of coffee as well, though mine came at a much younger age, when I thought I would be a โbig kidโ if I took a pull off of Momโs morning cuppa. It went about as well as expected.
So what was Iceโs response to his maiden coffee voyage? โIt tastes like water, with somethingโฆ another taste kicked in later,โ a phrase that is now the gold standard against which all Brewers Cup flavor calls will be judged.
โI can tell you thisโll pretty much be the last time I drink black coffee.โ
Remember when Ice-T said he's never had coffee? Well… pic.twitter.com/ihhGg98wwP
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) December 15, 2018
Were that the end of the story, though, there would be no story; a guy whose name bears a striking resemblance to a non-coffee beverage not drinking a coffee beverage hardly makes the editorial cut. But a second video, this one released by BuzzFeed, finds Ice making the second step in the journey: โ[putting] some shit in it.โ The shit, of course, being creamโwhich he has also never had before!?!โand sugar. Sugar alone didnโt quite turn him into a coffee drinker but the magical alchemy of cream and sugar gives Ice-T (and all of us by proxy, really) that special moment of realizationโseen in the in Buzzfeed video at around the 1:20 markโone which we all know so well, that coffee in the right circumstances can be pretty, pretty, pretty good.
โCoffee, sugar, and cream: not bad.โ
Donโt be surprised if Sargent Fin Tutuola starts appearing in Law and Order: SVU episodes with increasingly smaller coffee cups: first a 20oz Starbucks cup with a little whip on top, then a 12oz no whip, next maybe a 6oz cappuccino, until finally Tutuola is walking around crime scenes with his own demitasse (because he knows espresso to-go is a cardinal sin but there are perps to be caught).
Or maybe not. Either way, weโll always have this video. Itโs the pure wholesomeness (and a few curses) that the coffee world needs right now.
Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.