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Offline Pastis

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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2009, 05:39:49 PM »
Currently Fair Trade instant but have to have a cafetiere (plunger thingy  ::) ) of something dark and strong first thing.

I'll not bore you with the pics of a coffee farm in Guatemala then...  cloud9:   redface:

Who remembers this I wonder? A brand destined to expire with a twist of the vernacular...


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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2009, 05:44:18 PM »
Wasn't that like liquid tar in a bottle  sick2:
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2009, 05:48:10 PM »
No. Not like... it was  eeek:

A strange mix of coffee and chicory essence... I quite liked it  redface:
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2009, 05:52:13 PM »
I remember camp coffee with some affection ~ it was about all we could get in the 50s. Found some on sale a couple of years ago (I think you can still get it in a few places) and bought a bottle out of sheer nostalgia.
 sick2: Sooooooooooooooooo sweet  sick2:

But then I remember making tea with condensed milk in my RAF days ~ wouldn't dream of it now though.
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #19 on: February 21, 2009, 05:53:39 PM »
I knew I had read something about it ~


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The makers of Camp Coffee have changed the label on their famous jars - after complaints of racism.

The makers of the chicory-flavoured essence are now using an image of a Scottish soldier sitting side by side drinking coffee with a turbanned Sikh.

Earlier labels showed the Indian apparently serving the kilted soldier which provoked a storm of protest from race equality groups who claimed at the time that the label delivered "an offensive and racist" message.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-404516/Camp-coffee-forced-change-label-PC-brigade.html
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #20 on: February 21, 2009, 05:58:56 PM »
Thank you Snoops for the PC update  lol:

You're right; it was stacked with sugars I'm sure.
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #21 on: February 21, 2009, 06:01:50 PM »
So it's called Camp and to stop people protesting  they then put men in skirts on the label  noooo:
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #22 on: February 21, 2009, 06:05:08 PM »
Eeaarrrrr ~ Tha's no a skirt lassy ~ yon's a plaid.  (All right a Kilt to you bloody sassenachs)














http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/plaid.html
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #23 on: February 21, 2009, 06:06:31 PM »
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on February 21, 2009, 06:01:50 PM
So it's called Camp and to stop people protesting  they then put men in skirts on the label  noooo:

Nooo.... the men in skirts were on the label with the Indian servant which then became non PC and then a laughing stock because of the shift in the meaning of the word Camp and then....

Yes  lol:
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #24 on: February 21, 2009, 06:25:57 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on February 21, 2009, 06:05:08 PM
Eeaarrrrr ~ Tha's no a skirt lassy ~ yon's a plaid.  (All right a Kilt to you bloody sassenachs)
http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/plaid.html

I stand corrected  - it's an itchy scratchy travel blanket that is in the style of a skirt but because men wear them it is not considered macho to be called such a thing  - so other more acceptable terminology is used  lol:
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2009, 06:30:01 PM »
The Kilt = Something else the Victorians did for us.  ::)

In fact the whole Scottish myth is just that ~ stories written by Sir Walter Scott to amuse the Victorians.


Billy Connelly on the subject is very amusing;
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"Marching through heather ~ have you ever tried marching through fucking heather? Ye cannae do it. You stumble through heather, you trip over heather, you fall flat on your fucking face in heather, what ye cannae do is march through the fucking stuff."
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #26 on: February 21, 2009, 06:45:38 PM »
Quote from: Pastis on February 21, 2009, 05:39:49 PM
Currently Fair Trade instant but have to have a cafetiere (plunger thingy  ::) ) of something dark and strong first thing.


Couldn't figure out how to even get close to spelling cafetiere. I'd done it so badly that the spell check didn't even come up with anything.  redface:
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2009, 07:08:45 PM »
In my coffee drinking days my favourite implement was:




Made one LARGE cup of mind blowing expresso
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #28 on: February 21, 2009, 07:36:28 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on February 21, 2009, 07:08:45 PM
In my coffee drinking days my favourite implement was:




Made one LARGE cup of mind blowing expresso
We used to have two of those... the stupid check-out girl at Habitat wrapped two of them up by mistake....  noooo:

Made an awesome cup of coffee... had to sit down for a day after... then it broke....  evil:

(We gave the free one away as a present to someone...  redface: )
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Re: Instant coffee
« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2009, 07:43:57 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on February 21, 2009, 07:08:45 PM
In my coffee drinking days my favourite implement was:




So Snoops has the magic lamp
Nick has the magic flying rug
We have the cute Disney cuddly animal in Growler
Damsel in distress (Wenchy stranded on tat mountain)
Evil figure..........  rubschin:

We have the makings of a VP pantomine blockbuster
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