Ah! A new way to enjoy your Nestle's Quik! New "Cookies 'n' Cream" is selling for $2.45 for a 13-ounce container. "Stir, stop, stir," the label suggests, to handle the cookie crumbs in this mix.
Don Russell (married, five children at home, ages 6-16): "Right off the bat I noticed this powder flavors just under 1 gallon of milk, which isn't a lot of `mileage' for a canister that runs well over $2. Did the new powder pass the test from our juvenile crowd? Not especially. The kids said this Quik looked and tasted like a gooey Oreo cookie that didn't fully dissolve. The beverage is plenty sweet. As one would imagine, Nestle's powder is essentially a blend of sugar, cookie crumbs and cocoa."Edyth Jensen (married, three children at home): "We had several of the kids over, and so they tried it with us. This mix is really creamy. I've never cared much for `floaties' in my milk, but it's really good. We'll probably buy it again."
Nihla Lake (married, two children at home): "When we were kids, we enjoyed dunking chocolate sandwich cookies into our glass of icy cold milk and then spooning out the crumbs from the bottom. But by no stretch of the imagination can this Quik mix compare to that experience. It is more like drinking muddy water with silt on the bottom. Sorry; as you can tell, we didn't care for it."
Bill Allred (single): "There was one major disappointment with this Nestle's `Cookies 'n Cream' drink mix. It says on the box that you will be able to scoop up cookie bits from the bottom of the glass when you've drunk the liquid part - `just like you've dunked cookies into milk!' - it says. Well, I mixed it up and enjoyed the chocolate-flavored milk OK. But, no cookie sludge clung to the bottom of my glass. It was just chocolate milk; no `storm of milk and cookies,' as promised. So, this is good chocolate milk drink mix but you'll still have to dunk your own cookies."
Conclusion: This just may be a great idea that didn't work. But have we really gotten so lazy we need someone to put the cookies in our milk for us?