There’s a new coffee trend on TikTok. Well, there’s always a coffee trend on TikTok, but now there’s a new one. Previous reel-able drinks have included avocado lattes, watermelon juice with iced coffee, and orange juice and espresso, which have come with varying degrees of success.
The newest drink, though, isn’t so far fetched. It didn’t even leave the breakfast table in search of inspiration. The latest trend is adding yogurt to your morning coffee, and the internet, by which I mean me, is torn.
As reported by Yahoo Life, the trend was started by TikTok user Jordan Bernstein, who goes by the name Coffee Yogurt Boy, for obvious reasons. The drink first premiered in November of last year and consists of iced black coffee, a dollop of plain Greek yogurt, and coconut water, the latter ingredient also featured prominently in another viral TikTok trend, the Cloud Coffee. The drink has gained traction on the social media platform and has evolved to include things like cinnamon and a pinch of salt.
In other videos—assuming you can sit through them without all the jump cuts and tapping on things frying your Millennial brain—Bernstein even adds fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt. Though this was seemingly done in a pinch, I can’t really be mad at it.
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The major question is here is simply this: but why? If you’re okay with putting yogurt in your coffee you are presumably also fine with milk, an icon of coffee additives and one doesn’t run the risk of being lumpy if not adequately stirred in. Per Yahoo, the addition of Greek yogurt helps boost the overall protein content—another big thing in the world of TikTok coffee. And yogurt is often a protein-packed substitute for things like sour cream for adding richness, so why not coffee too?
Or perhaps the additional flavor from the ferment. But if so, let’s really lean into it. Let’s add some kefir. Kefir, coconut water, coffee, maybe a little fruit or citrus, and you now you’re onto something.
So it’s not the weirdest coffee trend to ever arise out of the TikToks, but it’s weirdly the one I’m choosing to avoid. I can’t prove it, but it feels like, especially for the hot coffee aficionados, the yogurt is going to cool the coffee down too much, right? Yogurt is a wonderful breakfast and coffee in the morning is a borderline religious experience, but the combination of the two, which already work so well together, feels odd. You want to know what the combination tastes like? I’ll tell you. It tastes like being 30 minutes late to work.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
