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Originally Posted by Baph
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Originally Posted by hovi5
nescafe also made it?
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Yes & no. Thermic Developments Ltd made it, and stuffed Nescafe inside it. Nescafe labelled it (because they already had a brand name) and sold it at profit, passing money back to TDL for more cans.
The pre-trial cans were all hand made, and this is where the urban myth comes from that they exploded. They didn't. What actually happened was that the heat chamber in some of the hand made ones wasn't made right, so it cracked when you pushed the button. Pressure built up until it was enough to throw quick lime & water out the bottom of the can. Nice.
The later ones, still made by TDL, were made in a proper production line, sponsored by Nescafe. However, consumers complained that the cans (called "Hot when you want it") weren't hot enough. So 9 months later, Nescafe pulled the line for fear of law suits.
I started a thread on it a while back, which jim@55 pointed me towards RocketFuel, and I did a lot of digging around afterwards. I loved those "Hot When You Want It" cans, and bought one pretty much daily  Damn complaining consumers!
Hopefully RocketFuel will sort out their distributions.
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Hey, I'll have you know I was instrumental in the launch of aforementioned Nescafe product, back in my Nestle days. And no jokes about my involvement being enough to doom it to failure either...
I actually saw the Rocket Fuel one on the shelf the other day, brought back so many memories...However having tried Rocket Fuel coffee before i don't intend on repeating the experience

I suspect that their offering will probably go the same way as the Nescafe version - basically it cost too much vs what it delivered, and let's face it, when you can get a nice fresh 'proper' coffee on every street corner, why would you want an inferior thing in a can? Still they did work a treat for camping trips...and they were pretty cool... *sighs wistfully*