Coffee bags
Apr. 26th, 2023 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcBack in the late nineties, in England I could buy coffee bags. They were packaged and used very similarly to tea bags: many in a box, same size, etc., just add to very hot water then wait awhile. Purists may turn their nose up at such but they were certainly a convenient improvement over instant coffee.
Coffee bags remain available but, oddly, they've grown. The boxes tend to hold fewer, larger bags, I suspect less cheaply too. In trying different brands, we found that the Percol Americano stocked by Tesco are among the best. Perhaps better is the Rich Italian from Taylors of Harrogate, we should try their other flavours, also compare the price with the Percol.
Coffee bags remain available but, oddly, they've grown. The boxes tend to hold fewer, larger bags, I suspect less cheaply too. In trying different brands, we found that the Percol Americano stocked by Tesco are among the best. Perhaps better is the Rich Italian from Taylors of Harrogate, we should try their other flavours, also compare the price with the Percol.
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Date: 2023-04-27 11:06 am (UTC)I don't remember them in the 90s, but then I wasn't much of a coffee drinker at the time (unless it was something more akin to a cappuccino, so mostly a going out drink). The ones we get these days all seem to be individually foil wrapped, which is a conceit I'm also seeing far too often with tea bags. I continue to be the type of tea snob who buys loose leaf and owns multiple variations on strainers and infusers.