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  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    I used to like coffee made from chicory, Camp Coffee, we always had it in boiled milk though, never had Nescafe until I was a teenager and coffee made from beans until I was well into my twenties.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Camp coffee is strictly for sticky toffee pudding and the like.   Been drinking filter coffee since spending a year in Belgium as an au pair, 45 years ago.  The year ABBA won Eurovision with Waterloo which is where I was living.   I keep a small jar of instant coffee granules for the one coffee cake I might make in a year.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We drink so little coffee, that the last time I got it out to use, the coffee granules nearly bent the spoon 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I would miss tea and coffee, especially my morning coffee, but I'd just stop drinking it rather than trying to replace it. Mind you, I do drink nettle, chamomile and peppermint teas, but they don't fulfil the same function.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's what I don't get about vegans. All this highly processed food. Why not just eat neat vegetables? You can be pretty sure that the multinationals are busy buying up the ethical companies producing pretend food for vegetarians and vegans.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3 said:
    That's what I don't get about vegans. All this highly processed food. Why not just eat neat vegetables? You can be pretty sure that the multinationals are busy buying up the ethical companies producing pretend food for vegetarians and vegans.
    And apparently one of the arguments for a vegan diet is that its better for the environment... I don't think deforestation for growing soy bean crops to make tofu and shipping of exotic fruit and veg is very good for the environment... But hey ho whatever floats your boat I suppose. 
  • LG_ said:
    I would miss tea and coffee, especially my morning coffee, but I'd just stop drinking it rather than trying to replace it. Mind you, I do drink nettle, chamomile and peppermint teas, but they don't fulfil the same function.
    Couldn't you grow a camellia sinensis and cure it for making your own tea? 
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Couldn't you grow a camellia sinensis and cure it for making your own tea? 
    Well yes, but my point was that I would just stop drinking tea. No biggie - and much simpler!
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_ said:
    Couldn't you grow a camellia sinensis and cure it for making your own tea? 
    Well yes, but my point was that I would just stop drinking tea. No biggie - and much simpler!
    Fair point! 
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    There was a programme on the other week where Giles Coran researched the secrets to long life, all in the USA, one couple swore by eating 1000 calories a day, for breakfast they had to imagine eating food, one group ate only meat, one group only vegetables and one guy only raw meat, take your pick.
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