tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post3741354854227364391..comments2023-09-20T14:18:32.900+02:00Comments on Obscene Desserts: "Camping out" with the Queen of ShebaJCWoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-42012578510257612012009-03-24T10:12:00.000+01:002009-03-24T10:12:00.000+01:00It surely is. I had a rather nice starter of gril...It surely is. I had a rather nice starter of grilled Chicory and grilled carrots at a very good Italian restuarant in Cologne a couple of years back. That's how you should have Chicory - in Germany, Italy or Britian. Not in coffee. Though, Camp was easy to make up when I was in the Scouts. On camp. Ha ha. I have this vague memory that they used to joke about Camp coffee on Round the Horne. I may be wrong. It could be that they should have done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-28886751924690760362009-03-23T18:49:00.000+01:002009-03-23T18:49:00.000+01:00"Camp was(is?) 24% Chicory and a whopping 4% real ..."Camp was(is?) 24% Chicory and a whopping 4% real coffee". <BR/><BR/>This reminds me of an anecdote that my mother likes to recount about my great-grandmother. In the mid- to late 1960s coffee was still a luxury in Germany and people would mix chicory and the real thing - the latter in ridiculously small quantities. So when my mother would visit her granny for coffee, Gustl (that was her granny's name) would announce the number of coffee beans she had used to spike the chicory. Like: "I've added six whole beans."<BR/><BR/>It's a true story, that. Six frigging coffee beans for a decent cuppa on a Sunday afternoon.<BR/><BR/>So don't begrudge us our Wirtschaftswunder. There was plenty of poverty where my family came from.<BR/><BR/>Chicory, incidentally, is still sold - and I guess bought - in Germany.https://obscenedesserts.blogspot.com/https://www.blogger.com/profile/14637377045831848328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-16039581163859791112009-03-23T17:37:00.000+01:002009-03-23T17:37:00.000+01:00I was going to cite that Wikipedia confirmation of...I was going to cite that Wikipedia confirmation of the presence of at least <I>some</I> actual coffee in this...um...'coffee', but you beat me to it.<BR/><BR/>(Remember, it's 'made by experts, from coffee beans of the finest quality' no less.)<BR/><BR/>I played a fair amount of football with jumpers as goalposts when visiting the homeland as a child, so I know the kind of image you're conjuring up. <BR/><BR/>Ah. Good times.JCWoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-22975616930158506742009-03-23T16:55:00.000+01:002009-03-23T16:55:00.000+01:00Mea Culpa. The might and glory that is Wikipedia ...Mea Culpa. The might and glory that is Wikipedia tells me Camp was(is?) 24% Chicory and a whopping 4% real coffee. They are right - it was/is good for coffee cake. My mother used to make coffee cake with it. We'd eat it on saturday afternoons in winter, having a break from playing football with jumpers for goalposts. An abiding taste of the British winter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-10156400984736910522009-03-23T11:26:00.000+01:002009-03-23T11:26:00.000+01:00You do all realise that Camp "coffee" was actually...You do all realise that Camp "coffee" was actually - if my memory serves me right - made from Chicory? They used to use it to make the coffee at Bolton Wanderers matches in the mid 60's. I presume that the liquid form it came in helped to make the process easier. I don't know - Camp Coffee on a saturday afternoon. Small boys in the park playing soccer, jumpers for goal posts. Abiding images of the british winter. As Ron Manager said on the Fast Show. (Use Youtube if you don't understand.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-40126523375979904642009-03-22T22:40:00.000+01:002009-03-22T22:40:00.000+01:00Aah - Camp Coffee. An opportunity to remember Majo...Aah - Camp Coffee. An opportunity to remember Major General Sir Hector Macdonald, scourge of Afghans, Boers and the Dervishes of Sudan. Gawd love him.<BR/><BR/>http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/003802.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-77425319771063515562009-03-22T22:30:00.000+01:002009-03-22T22:30:00.000+01:00Nothing is better than cheese in a tube, krauty gi...Nothing is <I>better</I> than cheese in a tube, krauty girl...<BR/><BR/>Mmmmm. Cheez-whiz.JCWoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-10390567972011121712009-03-22T22:25:00.000+01:002009-03-22T22:25:00.000+01:00It's no worse than cheese in a tube, Yankee-boy!It's no worse than cheese in a tube, Yankee-boy!https://obscenedesserts.blogspot.com/https://www.blogger.com/profile/14637377045831848328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-81893120718138562312009-03-22T21:56:00.000+01:002009-03-22T21:56:00.000+01:00I was curious about that reference to 'a bottle of...I was curious about that reference to 'a bottle of' coffee. So it came in liquid form, did it? <BR/><BR/>Sounds nice....JCWoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-46944452496150583522009-03-22T21:10:00.000+01:002009-03-22T21:10:00.000+01:00We usually had a bottle of Camp at home in the 198...We usually had a bottle of Camp at home in the 1980s when I was small. Mixed with cold milk, it made a nice sort-of iced coffee drink for children. But, my goodness, I haven't thought about it for twenty years or more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com