# My turn looking for a British delicacy - Camp Coffee! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [July 13, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858 "2011-07-13T13:00:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/1 "2011-07-13T13:00:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/2 "2011-07-13T13:03:32Z")
Oh God. I drank this stuff as a kid. It’s horrid! And I have no idea where you might find it. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/3 "2011-07-13T13:17:35Z")
Never heard of it. Maybe you’ll have to settle for Butch Coffee instead. Oo-er, missus! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/4 "2011-07-13T13:20:14Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I’m trying out some Jamie whatisname recipes… 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. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/5 "2011-07-13T13:30:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KatieCats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@KatieCats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KatieCats)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/6 "2011-07-13T13:34:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/7 "2011-07-13T13:43:04Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > 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. Look, it’s early in the morning, and I literally could not remember his name. But thanks for threadshitting. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/8 "2011-07-13T13:45:43Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > 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. 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 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/9 "2011-07-13T13:46:50Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > 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. 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 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/10 "2011-07-13T13:47:26Z")
Damn. \*\*Ellen \*\*won _again_. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/11 "2011-07-13T13:49:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/12 "2011-07-13T13:55:26Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > 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. I recall from a Civil War documentary that camp coffee (chicory) was used as a substitute for real coffee. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/13 "2011-07-13T14:05:20Z")
[The Brit store](http://www.britstore.co.uk/Coffee-Shop-Camp-Coffee-and-Chicory/c34_314/index.html) does worldwide delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/14 "2011-07-13T14:36:10Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Damn. \*\*Ellen \*\*won _again_. :mad: No sense in doubling up! I deleted my note. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/15 "2011-07-13T14:55:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/16 "2011-07-13T15:05:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/17 "2011-07-13T15:24:13Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > Camp coffee is not a British delicacy. Seriously. I’ve never heard of the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/18 "2011-07-13T18:34:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/19 "2011-07-17T08:28:50Z")
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 ? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858/20 "2011-07-17T09:55:58Z")
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. > **[12 oz. Ground Coffee and Chicory](https://www.communitycoffee.com/products/coffee/12-oz-ground-coffee-and-chicory)** > > Enjoy a longstanding New Orleans tradition. Popularized in France, our high-quality roasted chicory is sweet and flavorful. We then blend it with rich, roasted coffee to create the right balance of sweetness, spice and body when brewed. Experience it... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-turn-looking-for-a-british-delicacy-camp-coffee/588858.md?page=2)