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Nescafe Dolce Gusto hosted a lunch at Beso in Central High Street to introduce their new coffee machine. The chef prepared a degustacion—small portions of Mediterranean dishes, each course paired with one of the Dolce Gusto coffees.
If you place a good cup of coffee in front of us we will drink it. So during the starters we were quite chatty.
Dinna mentioned cosmetics. We brought up a factoid we’d heard somewhere that Joel Cruz sold a billion pesos worth of scent last year. Yes, one billion pesos. We are clearly in the wrong line of work. Liza noted that Bench’s bestseller is scent, hence all the movie stars/celebrities launching their own perfume brands.
During the main course hilarity ensued.
We noted that Hayden Kho had his own perfume, and Dinna said it had been sold to Ever Bilena. We said how odd it was that the billboard for his perfume showed him fully-dressed when he is best remembered in a state of undress. That perfume should’ve been called Careless Whisper. (But would he have to pay licensing fees to George Michael?) Or Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am, Pia added.
By dessert we felt like walking all the way home, a bad idea as it was the height of summer.
Jiggy showed us how to use the Dolce Gusto machine. First you choose a capsule (Caffe Lungo, Espresso, Capuccino, Latte Macchiato, Mocha, Chococino or Peach tea). Then three easy steps: pop the capsule in the thingy, lock the compartment, and drop the latch. Voila, good coffee in a minute. (It is not a sushal na 3-in-1, it is a sushal na coffeemaker.)
Nescafe Dolce Gusto is available in supermarkets for Php4,999. A box of 8 capsules costs Php402.
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May 7th, 2012 at 21:54
I hope you enjoyed the food. It looks really oily.
I find the local brand Maldita really crass and desperate in getting Kho as endorser. I don’t understand girls. Or advertising. Should I take it as a sign that women who buy clothes from that shop want to be secretly videotaped doing the nasty?
Im surprised to learn Joel Cruz earned that much. You’d expect the D-E demographic they appeal to will buy stuff other than perfume. Di ba mahirap kumuha ng panligo ang mga yan? Tapos magpapabango sila? Don’t they have more important things to worry about like food, debt, and their 12 children? I don’t get it.
The image of Boy Abunda in his billboard endorsing Joel Cruz with the tag line “Nagpabango ka na ba?” made me want to barf every morning in the MRT. I had the impulse not to take baths and go to work looking and smelling like a caveman. Besides, why would you want to smell like Boy Abunda or get him as an endorser? Hindi sya mukhang mabango.
May 8th, 2012 at 13:59
lol walang nagustuhan si thegreatcornholio, malaking ekis ang lahat!!
May 10th, 2012 at 02:48
The main shock here is how Hayden Kho is still popular? Granted, I never could keep up with Pinoy showbiz, but WTF — is he the Pinoy version of Paris Hilton, who is most remembered with his sex video (at least that’s what I remember him from). IMO, the fact that he (or his manager/company/whatever) thinks all girls are so hot for his pheromones (maybe other girls actually do?), drops my appeal I have for him, if any, by a notch.
Kung umabot siya sa level ni Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp, maybe. Or Michael Fassbender. Haha. /s
@thegreatcornholio – “You’d expect the D-E demographic they appeal to will buy stuff other than perfume. Di ba mahirap kumuha ng panligo ang mga yan?” >> Baka mas murang investment ang pabango dahil mas magastos ang sabon, shampoo at bayad sa tubig gamit sa panligo? Hehe.
The food doesn’t look nasty, but I can’t judge. It looks good enough for me, though. Was it good?