A since-changed ‘about’ section on Whipped Drinks’ website claimed that Angel “improvised with premium instant coffee in her home kitchen to make a whipped coffee creation… After months of delicious trial and error, she finally came up with the recipe for Whipped Drinks.” The recipe in question is — you guessed it — pretty much the same as every other dalgona coffee recipe, with the addition of cocoa and sea salt.
The coffee kit that Whipped Drinks is selling is a head-scratcher for a lot of reasons, not least of which is the price. The kit costs $49, which will get you a “high-speed frother,” a jug, “whip sticks” , and a recipe book. Good, responsibly-sourced coffee is expensive, and small business owners should be able to charge enough to support themselves and their workers.
need expensive whisks or specialty coffee or a “gilded frothing jug” to do so. It was a small pleasure pretty much anyone could take part in, a global experience that demanded little more than sugar, cheap instant coffee, and a few extra minutes to post your creation to Instagram or TikTok. But it’s not the price which upset the internet, so much as the fact that a white business owner claimed ownership of a drink which she very clearly lifted from a South Korean actor, who in turn popularized — with proper credit — the recipe of a man in Macau. It’s a form of theft and cultural erasure which has, time and time again, allowed white businesses to profit off of the labor and creativity of people of color, without those same people benefiting in the slightest.
What does race have to do with it?
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Congratulations Eater, coffee is now racist.
I mean, this looks like another case of people wrongly jumping to incorrect conclusions, no? I didn’t read Angel’s blip and immediately think she was claiming to have created dalgona. It says they “came up with the recipe for Whipped Drinks.” But, I’m probably just racist, right?
Enough of Eater...🙄