Since we’ve helped antonio slate his lust for Marmite, it’s my turn looking for a British food thing.
I’m trying to find Camp Coffee - I’m trying out some Jamie whatisname recipes, and that’s one of the ingredients. I know I’ve seen it somewhere, but a trip to a couple of Safeways came up blank.
Maybe I’m thinking of Sobeys having it - I’ll try there next.
Oh God. I drank this stuff as a kid. It’s horrid!
And I have no idea where you might find it.
Never heard of it. Maybe you’ll have to settle for Butch Coffee instead. Oo-er, missus!
Is this some new Dope thing? I keep seeing posts where Doper’s pretend not to know the name of someone that they have actually watched. To look “cool” they refer to them in some stupid off hand manner as if they don’t “really” watch them.
So the OP becomes an early Alzheimer victim who can’t recall the 6 letter name **Oliver **for the guy who wrote the fastest selling non-fiction book ever, has done about 10 TV shows, has restaurants all over the world and has generated millions of column inches in the media with his healthy eating campaigns.
Camp coffee is not a British delicacy.
It was an ‘Advanced Coffee Substitute’ whose main ingredient is chicory.
No one has actually drunk it for about 30 years or more (it was a war-time austerity relic way back in my 60’s childhood and on the way out thanks to Instant Coffee and the end of ‘austerity’.) but it still survives as a cake ingredient. Check the baking section.
You might want to try either the British Tea Room on Broad Street, or the Irish store(I can’t remember the name of it) that’s on Broad by the Sears Clearance centre. They both carry some British food.
Look, it’s early in the morning, and I literally could not remember his name. But thanks for threadshitting.
I doubt Dopers are as keen for perceived hipsterhood as you seem to be projecting. In any case, if you haven’t got anything to contribute to the thread besides snark, please refrain from threadshitting.
Thanks,
Ellen Cherry
If you have a problem with a particular poster, take it to the Pit. If you have a problem with what you see as a pattern of behavior here, start a new thread in MPSIMS or ATMB.
Regardless, this wasn’t necessary.
Thanks,
twickster, Cafe Society moderator
Damn. **Ellen **won again. :mad:
Blimey, Camp Coffee, I thought they stopped making it sometime around 1945. Was popular when we had rationing after the war and no one could get real coffee. That’s about it.
I’m presuming he’s using it as a short cut for coffee flavouring, in which case you could just use very strong, expresso coffee.
I recall from a Civil War documentary that camp coffee (chicory) was used as a substitute for real coffee.
The Brit store does worldwide delivery.
No sense in doubling up! I deleted my note.
Oddly enough, chicory is added to many New Orleans coffees.
Why, I don’t know-it is bitter and lacks any real coffee flavor.
I did once see a decades-old bottle of the stuff at a British foods store.
Why anyone would drink it is a mystery.
Well a Frappacino is the campest coffee I know.
(Actually, my grandparents used to drink Camp coffee, no idea why)
I seem to recall that they had to change the label a little while back. The orginal one showed a scene from the days of the Raj with a Sikh servant giving his Scottish military boss a cup.
Now it shows them both sitting down and “enjoying” a cup together.
It was suggested that this was a sop to the PC brigade. I think it is merely a reflection of the burgeoning relationship between the two men.
First it was master/servant, now a meeting of equals and next we’ll be treated to some hot kilt-on-turban action, it is the 21st century after all.
Seriously. I’ve never heard of the stuff.
Camp is not a delicacy. It’s a repugnant abomination. What’s the recipe? Whatever it is, don’t use Camp in it. We’ll tell you what to use instead, just please not that. It’s not nice in such a profound way that no adjective can adequately describe it.
I used to love Camp coffee, but haven’t seen it in shops for years.
As I recall it came in bottles, was it in liquid form ?
chicory coffee is still very popular in Louisiana. A lot of my dads family live there and drank it every day. I drank it occasionally, years ago in my twenties.
My dads family drinks Community Coffee. It should be similar to the British chicory coffee.