NFR: Age Test - Folger's Crystals

[RCF]

Surprised no one has mentioned Nescafe. Its been around since the 1930's.

 

[Lake flyer]

My parents grew up on coffee farms in the 30’s and 40’s. I just videoed an interview with my Dad about life on a coffee farm.
When they moved to the Midwest they always drank Maxwell House “Good to the last drop”.

 

[Cliff]

The crystals were instant I believe. Nasty. Taste bad and left a funky ring in the cup. I'd drink burned percolator coffee from a midnight AA meeting before I'd drink that stuff.

Great analogy, as I've been there, hell, I even made the coffee in those giant "urns".

 

[Matt B]

My parents grew up on coffee farms in the 30’s and 40’s. I just videoed an interview with my Dad about life on a coffee farm.
When they moved to the Midwest they always drank Maxwell House “Good to the last drop”.

Cool—coffee farms where if you don’t mind sharing?

 

[Mike Cline]

Having lived overseas for well over a decade in the 1980s, instant coffee was the norm in most Asian and European countries—nasty stuff in retrospect. I always thought the best coffee was traditional Turkish coffee—strong stuff. However on a trip to Hawaii, we stayed at a B&B on the Kona coast that doubled as a coffee farm and tropical fruit farm. We were served coffee from freshly roasted beans each morning. We awoke to the aroma of roasting beans each morning and the coffee itself was unforgettably perfect. Haven’t had a cup of instant or the traditional Folger’s style coffee in decades.

 

[Mukman]

I can’t remember who posted this in the Humor thread, but props to you, and reprinting it here because it’s pertinent to this thread.

 

[Lake flyer]

Cool—coffee farms where if you don’t mind sharing?

Kona coast Hawai’i. Handpicked them in September.

 

[Cliff]

Having lived overseas for well over a decade in the 1980s, instant coffee was the norm in most Asian and European countries—nasty stuff in retrospect. I always thought the best coffee was traditional Turkish coffee—strong stuff. However on a trip to Hawaii, we stayed at a B&B on the Kona coast that doubled as a coffee farm and tropical fruit farm. We were served coffee from freshly roasted beans each morning. We awoke to the aroma of roasting beans each morning and the coffee itself was unforgettably perfect. Haven’t had a cup of instant or the traditional Folger’s style coffee in decades.
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Same deal here but it was in Ethiopia for me. Waking up to coffee being roasted is unbelievable.

 

[TicTokCroc]

Surprised no one has mentioned Nescafe. Its been around since the 1930's.

Hey stop giving away my secret ingredient...

 

[Cliff]

Same deal here but it was in Ethiopia for me. Waking up to coffee being roasted is unbelievable.

Nescafe Classico isn't that bad.

Hey stop giving away my secret ingredient...
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Nescafe Classico isn't that bad.

 

[RCF]

Nescafe Classico isn't that bad.

Nescafe Classico isn't that bad.

When you say ' isn't that bad ' definitely means it is no good at all.

Equivalent to the toast is not burned that much or it does not smell that bad...

 

[TicTokCroc]

Nescafe Classico isn't that bad.

Nescafe Classico isn't that bad.

That will make about 75 gallons of coffee ice cream

 

[Cliff]

When you say ' isn't that bad ' definitely means it is no good at all.

Equivalent to the toast is not burned that much or it does not smell that bad...

Let me rephrase that, when you have no coffee on hand, none at all, and you find it in the bottom of your backpack in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, it isn't that bad.

 

[Jim F.]

I've never been much of a coffee drinker, but from my perspective, the sound of a percolator bubbling along beats hob out of listening to a Mr. Coffee machine fart . . .