OT: Is it true that Postum has been discontinued?

I never liked it as a kid and I didn't think about it at all since then, but still it was a part of my childhood and I'm sad to know that it's gone and soon forgotten.

Boo Hoo!

Lucille

Oh - my Mom used to drink that. I'll bet some "old time treat" place will pick it up in a few years.

C

What is Postum ??

It was a vile tasting powdered, unreal and grainy, coffee flavored goop that you added to milk or hot water, or something like that. I doubt it will be back because the article I read said they tried to bring it back from the dead and there was no interest. I'm an all day coffee drinker who rarely doesn't have a half full cup at my elbow (it doesn't even have to be hot or fresh) but I didn't like that at all.

Kraft is finished with it so unless someone else thinks it's worth the effort, it's gone.

I never did buy it as far as I can remember, so the "kids" 42 and

45,have no memory of it!

Gillian

I just looked it up to see the ingredients. Apparently my memory wasn't too bad because it was made of grains and was supposed to be coffee substitute. I do remember that it tasted like cereal and was to my way of thinking, yucky.

Wow ! Clearly I was fortunate to miss it entirely. Sounds something like the chicory stuff they subbed for coffee during WWII. I wasn't drinking it but I remember hearing what was said about it lol

My father was like me and adored a cup of coffee so I have a vague recollection of chicory. My mother used it to fortify a pot of coffee when it was closely rationed. I think it was kind of bitter, but still palatable.

I remember after WW2 , probably about 1958 +/-, I would stop at a cafe on the way to the h Hammersmith Hospital for Heamtology night school, and we drank "coffee" which was a sweet coffee-flavored stuff out of brown bottle. ( No it wasn't Kahlua, it was an essence that was mixed with boiling water).

I didn't like coffee ( not that it was around much, but I liked this). Gill

I would love to be sipping Kahlua from a bottle like that. It's a favorite of mine.

Now we all know what to send you for your birthday. :)

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Would that be what was called "Camp Coffee" with the picture of a man in a turban on it. Shirley

That would be Camp Coffee ! I can still buy it here, often passed it by and wondered who on earth is still drinking that stuff !!

I think that would have been 'Camp Coffee'. Although a Tea drinker, Mum used to keep a bottle of Camp in the cupboard. I never liked it.

So was Polio!!

Pat

I believe there are people who like "milky coffee". You can use Camp coffee to make a drink with all milk.

I'm not sure about you but you can be assured I have never forgotten polio, nor have any of the people I know who still suffer the after effects. Not particularly funny and certainly not the same--

Neither have I, and no, it`s not funny and wasn`t intended to be. Fortunately, these days many people can now forget all about polio.

There aren`t that many people around now who still suffer the after effects of polio - in fact, although I used to know a couple, I haven`t seen or heard anything of them for ages - nor the one boy I remember in the dim and distant days of my youth who suffered from rickets - another horror of previous times.

I couldn`t see why, if you disliked it so much, it was " sad to know it was gone and forgotten" ;-)

Pat

I remember when I was working at the Royal Free, Hampstead Branch in

1959 to 1961 we had a ward of folk in the "iron lung". It was sad; however I also remembr seeing kids with rickets; young girls dying from septicemia following back-street abortions; every one of my patients with leukemia died! In fact that applied when I worked in Norfolk, VA, in a children's hospital from 1965 to 1968; there was no cure, or really long term remission.

Times change, and we are getting cures for so many things. Life expectancy has grown and grown. I often wonder, as we eradicate diseases and have more people, build more houses, eliminate the farmlands to grow housing developments..where will our necessary needs, like food and fresh water come from??

I will not be around to find out, and that suits me just fine!

Gill