As a kid, it was frowned upon by adults to allow youngsters to drink it. To me, it tasted as bad as the sip of beer I had been allowed once. But, I think by 8th. grade or so, becoming a half-way adult, I started drinking it. Pretty rebellious, if denied certain things I could see no harm in, I maybe raised a fuss. Years back, a big uproar began about "Decaf" being dangerous to your health; they used Trichloroethylene (TCE) to remove caffeine from the beans. TCE is a known carcinogen. So, what do they use now? Some other risky solvent? Or, a secret method, "privileged information". I drink a lot, always with milk, never black. Almost half-milk, half-coffee, I figure I get my whole day's calcium in that milk alone. Maybe 6, 7, 8 cups a day. Never had a problem with caffeine, I can drink a cup or two, lean back, and be asleep in five minutes. Luck, I guess. What is it about coffee, anyway? Do you drink a lot? Frank
Anyone remember this stuff? I believe my Grandma bought it, talked my Mother into keeping some in the pantry. It smelled terrible when you opened the jar, and tasted, to me, anyhow, worse than it smelled! They touted the stuff in ads like below, give it to your children. It would've spoiled this kid's appetite! "Free from the Evil effects of Caffeine"!
I drink one very strong cup in the morning and that's it. If I'm at my daughters where she has a Keurig, I will usually have 2 because they are weaker than the coffee I make at home.
Coffee is a very good antioxidant and really should be dank black with no sugar we don’t need the extra sugar anyways. Some naturopath doctor say coffee is great but we are putting it in the wrong end. A coffee enema is one of the best things to help clean the liver. The Merck Manual, the bible for orthodox medical diagnosis and therapy, advocated coffee enemas in all editions from 1898 through to the 12th edition in 1972. Was taken out solo to make room for other treatments.
I'm kind of a coffee snob so I never buy coffee from the grocery store, and rarely like coffee that I am served in restaurants, but I drink coffee from the time I get up in the morning until just before I go to bed, and there are times when I'll take a cup to bed with me, particularly if I plan on reading before going to sleep. I don't use decaf, and I don't use cream, milk or sweeteners. My father would tell us that if we had to put cream or sugar in our coffee, we weren't old enough to drink coffee; so black it is. Sometimes I'll drink hot tea, and I like it well enough, but I usually go back to coffee after a day or two.
My husband gets up around 5 a.m. and grinds coffee beans. He brings me coffee in bed about 7 and I usually sit up and read and drink coffee for an hour or two. I drink it with milk (black is too hard on my stomach) and usually have 3 or 4 cups. Years ago I heard a lot about how harmful coffee is for a person but now they claim it helps somewhat in keeping breast cancer at bay and also Alzheimer's. I know coffee is good for my body and it makes me happy so I will continue to drink it. And also, it's very true that coffee enemas are very good for cleansing the liver. A nice warm (don't get it too hot!) coffee enema is quite refreshing.
POSTUM....... I remember it well.... Didn't dislike it as I can remember.. I believe it is NO longer available.. It was made by the Post company that makes Post cereals.. That's why it was called POSTUM ... Coffee...... I am a black, black person and have always been that way.. No sugar or milk.. At least one very big mug at breakfast and often a Tassimo coffee during the day... Caffeine of course and not decaf...
According to what I read,Postum was originally made and sold by Post, which became General Foods. IN 2007, Kraft bought General Foods, and discontinued making Postum. However, another company bought the brand name, and Postum, made with the same original recipe , is being marketed again. I looked on Amazon, and it was almost $17 for the little 8 oz jar of Postum. I used to drink Postum, and also a cereal beverage called Pero; but my favorite now is called Roma. I think that none of them are going to please someone who only wants that actual coffee taste and aroma; but when I just want something hot to drink on a cold evening, and don't want coffee, then I make a cup of Roma instead. I drink it with cream and a little honey or sweetener, and it is delicious. Sometimes, I will have a hot cup of tea, or iced tea in the summertime; but I am not really much of a tea drinker. Occasionally, I want something light to drink like tea, and when I do , I usually drink it straight.
My Grandma always "doctored" her coffee with Chicory. She kept a jar of the stuff handy, and I think she used about a 1/2 mix with coffee. I don't think she drank only the Chicory drink, but am not sure. Would have to search to find out what the stuff really is, think a plant all by itself. Frank
Chicory is a plant that is closely related to the dandelion, @Frank Sanoica . If you do the search for it, you will see the similarity in the looks, except I think that chicory has little blue flowers rather than yellow like a dandelion does. Both plants are used as greens, and have a lot of vitamins, and the roots are what is roasted to make a coffee substitute, or to add to coffee, as your grandmother did. I remember reading about making a coffee substitute from dandelions, and (many years ago) the kids and I spent an entire afternoon digging up dandelion plants at our community park, and I took them all home to use as greens and to try making the dandelion coffee substitute. I don't know if anyone else here has ever tried eating dandelion greens; but I am here to tell you ---------those puppies are flat BITTER ! ! They are better if you get then first thing in the spring, apparently; but even then, they are still pretty strong. So......on to the coffee making experiment. I washed all of the roots, and baked them in a barely warm oven. We only had a wood cookstove at that time; so that meant I had to build a fire in the cookstove first. After an hour or so of roasting, the roots were a dark chocolate color, and looked like I thought they should look for becoming coffee. However, they had shrank up so much, that after I had ground them in the blender to the right consistency ; there was maybe a third to a half cup of usable "grounds". I added them to the coffee that I already had, and they did give it a good flavor; but I decided that it was a whole lot of work to just get that little dab of dandelion coffee. http://honest-food.net/2009/06/05/because-i-can-vol-2-chicory-coffee/
I've drank chicory before, I didn't overly care for it but for awhile they were saying it was so much healthier than coffee. I'm sort of beyond that now. At my age I'll drink what I like best and that is coffee.