I'm 46 and finally getting Camp

JookyChap

When I was a kid, my Nan always insisted on putting Camp in your coffee, and it was truly horrendous. Anyway, I've been drinking a lot of French coffee recently (added chicory), so I took a punt on a bottle today, and man it is gorgeous.

All those wasted years.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/article7215294.ece/alternates/w460/Coffee camp label.jpg

Right, next I'm going to go for one of my auld Mom's diet tips..

http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a96682_ayds.jpg

mart

I don't mind the chicory, but last time I tried it, camp had so much added sugar it's undrinkable. But that was maybe twenty years ago ...

JookyChap

Must admit I mixed it with some seriously strong coffee...

Grunfeld

Camp + soya yoghurt +/- honey

My favourite post-8pm food experience!

JookyChap

Grunfeld said:

Camp + soya yoghurt +/- honey

My favourite post-8pm food experience!

Ooh, I'll give that a go in - 15 minutes

Sassafras

It makes the best iced coffee but it was a bit sweet, I don't know if that's changed or not. It's pretty rare here, I've not seen a bottle of Camp for years.

richh

Never heard of this stuff, but for what it's worth I am the proud owner of a 'Camps' classical guitar.  Completely irrelevant to anything, but vaguely guitar related.

jd0272

Weird you lot like.

JookyChap

@Grunfeld said:

Camp + soya yoghurt +/- honey

My favourite post-8pm food experience!

That is bloody lovely Though my daughter threw-up, but in 20 years she'll look back and laugh while she remembers when I poisoned her, so all is cool there too.

Phil_aka_Pip

Notice the label is much more PC these days. The original had the Indian waiting on the Sahib, not sitting down with him.

JookyChap

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Notice the label is much more PC these days. The original had the Indian waiting on the Sahib, not sitting down with him.

And yet they kept the man-in-a-dress and chap in long patent leather boots imagery

Grunfeld

JookyChap said:

That is bloody lovely Though my daughter threw-up, but in 20 years she'll look back and laugh while she remembers when I poisoned her, so all is cool there too.

I'd better make some too!

Couple of days ago my son was driving the pair of us around Scotland and I popped into a garage for some grub.  Clearly he thought I intended to kill him judging by his reaction to the Sandwich-of-Pure-Evil I got for him.  I think the box said, "Lethal Sandwich, contains Poo, Broken Glass, and Rat poison" or it might have been "Cheese and Tomato" -- who'd have thought a tomato could stir the passions so.

ICBM

JookyChap said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Notice the label is much more PC these days. The original had the Indian waiting on the Sahib, not sitting down with him.

And yet they kept the man-in-a-dress and chap in long patent leather boots imagery

Well it is called 'Camp'.

Dalefty

I like adding a bit of Jack Daniels to my coffee, but then I think everything tastes better with a little bit of Jack and a lot better with even more Jack Daniels, in fact I find how good something tastes is proportional to how much Jack Daniels is in it, the more Jack there is the better it tastes.

My A.A. sponsor doesn't share my views though.

DaLefty

Col_Decker

Never heard of it, wassit do?

EricTheWeary

Surely everyone's granny had a bottle of this?
Basically coffee ( ish) flavoured liquid made with chicory, used for cake flavouring or as decaf coffee.
I think often used when coffee prices have been high or coffee largely unavailable eg during war times ( Camp goes back to 1876 according to Wiki).

Sassafras

Just got back from town after hunting in vain for a bottle of Camp. Where the hell can I get it?

Grunfeld

Sassafras said:

Just got back from town after hunting in vain for a bottle of Camp. Where the hell can I get it?

Most supermarkets but you often have to look in the baking section rather than with the coffees.  I think you can use it to make "coffee flavoured" things when you bake, which I don't, I just pour it into soya yoghurt

Sassafras

Ah, that would explain it then. Thanks.

mike_l

And there was me thinking the Jookster had started wearing pink shirts and feather boa's....

JookyChap

Started? ??