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Watch ESSENCE staffers discuss creamy holiday drinks and have a taste off between Coquito and Egg Nog.
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00:00Nah, this, I could taste a hint.
00:02Some nuttin' egg up in there.
00:05Some nuttin' egg?
00:06Nuttin' egg.
00:07And some cinnamon.
00:16Coquito, cremas, puncha creme, all of those.
00:21All of those with the rum.
00:23I do not have a favorite holiday creamy drink.
00:25I don't know that I understand the concept of holiday creamy drinks, like it doesn't
00:32make sense to me.
00:33It goes with the holidays, you know, family, getting together, over a big, you know, bowl
00:40of milky rum.
00:42Here's the thing about holiday drinks, I'm lactose intolerant, and I just feel like these
00:50creamy drinks got all the lactose that you could ever lactate.
00:54I think since I hit 30, I've been getting lactose.
00:57I don't know if that's a thing.
00:58It is.
00:59It is?
01:00Black and 30, you got the bubble guts.
01:01Mmm.
01:02That should be on my t-shirt.
01:03Yeah.
01:09I need somebody to tell me what's in eggnog, because when I think about it, like, I feel
01:13like I'm just going to be drinking raw egg.
01:15Yeah.
01:16Is it made with raw eggs, though?
01:17Like, you know how they have, like, a whipped cream, but it's not with no eggs in it?
01:20You ever heard of an egg cream?
01:22That's very white.
01:23I don't really think that, like, eggnog and stuff is like a black people thing.
01:28Mm-mm.
01:29You know, in my black household, before my daddy got with his white girlfriend, we didn't
01:33drink creamy drinks, but then she came along and we started drinking eggnog.
01:36Oh.
01:37I've actually only had coquito.
01:39Like, well, they're all fairly similar.
01:42Okay, so what's in coquito?
01:44I don't know.
01:45So, but you've heard of it before, though, so...
01:47Just because I've heard of it don't mean I know what's in it.
01:48Coquito looked like your mama and your grandma passed this recipe down.
01:53Like, whispered it into each other's ears.
01:56You can smell the cinnamon.
01:58Mm-hmm.
01:59You can smell the rum.
02:01You can just smell that somebody's auntie was dancing to something real, like, smooth.
02:10Maybe a reggae Christmas carol.
02:17Which one are you going for first?
02:18I'm going for eggnog.
02:19Oh, eggnog.
02:20All right, bad.
02:21Okay, let's go with the eggnog first.
02:22Oh!
02:23Okay.
02:24Ready?
02:25Let's do this.
02:26Cheers.
02:27Cheers.
02:28This is not...
02:29This is un-lat-toast, right?
02:30No, yours is lac-toast.
02:31This guy...
02:32Okay, yeah, yeah.
02:33I need that toast in there.
02:34All right, cool.
02:35Ooh.
02:36Mm-mm.
02:37This tastes like nutriment.
02:38That smells nice.
02:39It is thick.
02:40It looks really thick.
02:41It's still on the cup from right there.
02:42Do you like it, Jordyn?
02:43It does feel like there's a dessert in a cup.
02:44Yeah.
02:45Like somebody forgot to bake the cake.
02:46Yeah.
02:47Like somebody forgot to bake the cake.
02:48Yeah.
02:49Yeah.
02:50Yeah.
02:51Yeah.
02:52Yeah.
02:53Yeah.
02:54Yeah.
02:55Yeah.
02:56Yeah.
02:57Yeah.
02:58Yeah.
02:59Yeah.
03:00Yeah.
03:01Yeah.
03:02Yeah.
03:03Yeah.
03:04Yeah.
03:05It tastes like...
03:06Right?
03:07It tastes like a batter.
03:08This tastes like an accident.
03:09People would be lying.
03:10This don't taste like no cookie.
03:12Mm-mm.
03:13It's not for me.
03:14Next.
03:15Cheers.
03:16Cheers.
03:17Ooh, this looks good.
03:18Oh, eat them.
03:19Cheers.
03:26Wow.
03:29This is the truth.
03:30Ooh.
03:31Mm.
03:32Mm.
03:33Mm.
03:34Ooh.
03:35Ooh.
03:36That's good.
03:37I enjoy it better than the eggnog.
03:41This is really good, honestly.
03:43I'm a fan.
03:44I'm a fan of this right here.
03:46Coquito is where it's at.
03:47This is amazing.
03:49It tastes homemade.
03:50It's got liquor in it.
03:51If we put liquor in this, I still wouldn't be like, ooh.
03:53Sorry.
03:54This is so good.
03:55Sorry.
03:56This is so good.
03:57No Coquito left behind.
03:58Mm.
03:59All right, get this away from me.
04:01Right.
04:02Throw that out.
04:03If I have to choose between the Coquito or the eggnog, I'm going with the Coquito.
04:10It definitely tastes better.
04:11Mm.
04:12This is the winner.
04:13Coquito.
04:14Coquito.
04:15With the spirits.
04:16Yeah.
04:17Of our ancestors floating around in here.
04:18Yes.
04:19You see them brown specks?
04:20That's us.
04:21What is it?
04:22That's us from the past.
04:23Is that the cinnamon?
04:24That's us.
04:25That's the nutmeg.
04:26I don't...
04:27What are you saying?
04:29Are you saying nutmeg?
04:30Yeah.
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