Psst. The war is over. You don't have to do that anymore.

If you really, really, want to poop mix your coffee with chicory.

maybe I had a bad batch, but chicory coffee tasted like pencil shavings to me. Hated it.

Cafe Du Monde + condensed milk = Vietnamese-American starter pack

It MUST be mixed with milk or some kind of creamer.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT drink it black!

This is entirely accurate

Sometimes war rations can actually turn out quite nice.

I tried it twice now and I just can’t enjoy it as much as coffee. You can definitely tell the difference unless you’re used to it.

and some of it is actually pretty good.

Ah that explains that line from Cold Mountain then

“And it’s real coffee, not just chicory and dirt!”

From what I have heard from people who like it, you never want to drink it plain. It needs milk or a creamer to balance out the taste. So if you enjoy your coffee with put any additions or with very little sugar or creamer, you will not find a way to enjoy chicory coffee. I have heard dandelion coffee is closer to the taste of coffee without having any actual coffee in it. The problem is that it is hard to find in most places and you would have to grow them yourself since so many people use chemicals on their lawns. I've thought about growing them in a pot since I rent, but my cats are rude and eat any plant I try to grow, so I have given up until I have more space.

It's horrid, the war is over, stop.

Tried it one time and immediately tossed the whole bag of coffee out.

Chicory drinker here on occasion

Absolutely. Needs milk or something to cut the bite. And that bite is damn big.

Edit: Now I want to try it with condensed milk. That sounds delicious.

Heheh…natures turbo lax. It will clean you out whether you like it or not.

Was a bit in the Alt SciFi / Fiction Turtledove book Guns for the South.

time travelers upon meeting Gen Lee for the first time offer him folgers instant coffee. Lee says its not as good as the real thing but much better than the Chicory blend.

does Dogfish head still make the Chicory beer?

I tried it one time. Absolutely awful.

Hehehehe I love it

Grew up on it. Love it. Slightly sweet and makes the coffee full-bodied.

Try it at any Vietnamese restaurant. Most use Cafe du Monde coffee grounds with condensed milk

I came here looking for brand reccomendations because I love it, but can only find Caf-Lib (chicory and roasted malt blend). It turns out I'm the weird one; TIL

>does Dogfish head still make the Chicory beer?

https://www.dogfish.com/brewery/beer/chicory-stout

its a good book. mostly historically accurate minus the time travel intervention

My office used to mix regular coffee with chicory, then brew.

i've had Thai iced coffee and tea (the tea is way better imo) plenty. Assuming its similar?

Is this the same stuff as endive?

No, you're right. It's gross. Helps ya poop, though!

Wait talk to me what do I need to do?

“The past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past” - Faulkner

Ill stick to mixing my coffee with poop

Right.

The Italians couldn't get their hands on enough chocolate during World War II so they bulked it out with hazelnuts. A couple changes to the recipe two decades later and we have Nutella.

Sweetened condensed milk or regular?

I'm not as familiar with Thai coffee but it does look similar from what I can see. Viet coffee is less spiced and more sweet.

Back in the early 2000s, Texas prisons had two types of coffee. Foldger's instant for like $4.00 a can and a brand of Chicory I can't remember for $1.00. I only made the mistake of getting chicory once.

I love chicory coffee black.

Most iconic foods start out as a "ok, what do we have on hand and what can we make from it?" thing. Often as a staple food for the masses.

Neat!

sweetened

I believe the traditional way is you get a Vietnamese coffee filter. Viet people like the Cafe Du Monde brand and sweetened condensed milk because it closely replicates what they had from VN. All the stuff is easily available online these days (like Amazon) and there are now multiple brands to choose from.

It takes a long time but the coffee is really strong. If you just want to try it, any Vietnamese coffee shop or pho restaurant will have it. They usually give you the cup with the filter on top and you wait for it to finish, so you can check the coffee/condensed milk ratio that way and mess around with the filter to see how it works.

I usually just use a regular cone filter on weekdays because I'm short on time.

I received chicory as a gift. You’re not wrong, it tastes like ass.

I’ll die on the hill of claiming that Vietnamese and Cambodians have coffee dialed.

From the flavor to the coffee shop experience. In a just world, every neighborhood on earth will have a Vietnamese run coffee shop with macarons and the most attentive polite wait staff in the world. It’s an art to them and it should be rewarded.

Seconded. French Market brand, it has a nice spicy peppery aroma too.

French Market. 👍🏼

Same family

I remember about Napoleon doing something similar

If you live in a city with a sizeable Asian community there's a reasonable chance you can get actual Vietnamese coffee these days, usually cheaper than any of the New Orleans chickory blends. (Trung Nguyen, the leading Viet brand, seems to've greatly expanded their availability in the US in the past decade or so.) And a Vietnamese coffee filter is usually only 3 or 4 bucks. Cafe du Monde is often available at regular American grocery stores, but at a pretty steep markup for what it is.

The key is that Vietnamese coffee generally isn't Arabica coffee, the smooth variety most common in American coffee these days; it simply doesn't grow well in Vietnam. It's mostly Robusta, which is rather bitter, along with other 'inferior' varieties. This, combined with the long extraction of a traditional Vietnamese drip filter, leads to a very strong, bitter brew that stands up well to the cloying sweetness of the sweetened condensed milk. Chickory provides that same bitterness, which is why New Orleans coffee is often basically half coffee and half milk (and usually with some sugar too). If you try to make either New Orleans or Vietnamese coffee with an Arabica, even a strong, dark roast, it just doesn't have the bitterness you need to make it taste right.

Thai coffee is really interesting: it's usually not just coffee. The most common brand I see — this one — is actually only 50% coffee, along with roasted corn and soy. Other common ingredients are sesame, cardamom, and rice. So, similar to Viet coffee in that it's sort of filled out with lesser ingredients, but the flavor profile of Thai coffee is pretty unique

Fair enough! Love Who and What you love! Be happy!

Some high percentage of people are sensitive to chicory, I personally can’t drink it without getting spaced out, hot and agitated and it raises the average persons gut acidity, old job had cheap coffee for staff and I got tested for IBS and other issues until we worked it out.

If anyone here tends to have upset stomachs often with burning check your coffee, it may be cheap and you might be sensitive, it wrecked havoc on my digestive system for close to a year.

Chicory is an acquired taste in France from Ww2 . Less nowadays, but people used to add some to the coffee filter

Back in the day went to NO on business and host took me for "coffee". Definitely an acquired taste. Definitely needs milk to "soften" it.