Avoid this coffee

[Woodland]

Hello everyone

I wanted to drink a cup of coffee but I didn't have any in the kitchen so I opened a French ration.There are 3 types of coffee in the RCIRs. Now I'm gonna introduce to you the worst ration coffee I have ever had.This is it:

I have already tried this type before and something was wrong with them.One tasted like mint . I thought it was caused by the sugar in the accessory packet because the coffee, mint flavoured green tea and sugar are packed together in a nylon bag. After drinking the fifth coffee of this type I'm sure that it's the coffee that is bad. It tasted sour and hardly resembled coffee (OK, the colour was fine but the smell and the taste...)
Maybe it's just this batch (or lot ? ).

The best tasting coffee I have ever tried is this:

This type made by SRD tastes like "real" coffee.Delicious

[housil]

All the taster´s choice coffee out of the MREs also mold after a couple of years (I guess from the leaking Tabasco bottles)

[Name_not_found]

I haven't gotten any bad tasters choice yet.

Canadian Imp all had bad coffee just after their expiration date.

I love the Italian cappuccino

[Stef]

Hi, I'm just having a cup of this coffee (orange pack from RCIR), not bad, not the best I drank but still OK.
I've also got some white and red coffee packs. I think the problem is not from the coffee itself but from the infamous "Hollywood" peppermint gums that gave that mint aroma to everything in the ration except the canned food.
The crackers too tasted terrible and I gave them to my dog (...which is not really a gourmet ).
The soldiers complained about that, they just stopped adding those gums to the RCIR's and now everything tastes normal.

[housil]

but from the infamous "Hollywood" peppermint gums that gave that mint aroma to everything in the ration except the canned food.

As a kid back in the early 1980th, we spent every summer vacation in south France (St. Tropez). We *loved* the French "Hollywood" gum for it´s strong flavour. Not even real strawberries tasted like that straberry gum

[Stef]

well, the original gums were OK, the problem is with that new "intense flavor" sugar-free version that gives its taste to everything around.

[Name_not_found]

That hollywood gum is very strong.

For those in the USA its menthol flavor, not mint, not peppermint, menthol.

[Woodland]

Update.

Yesterday I prepared the last one of those "bad" coffees. It tasted surprisingly normal.Just a little aftertaste...
The only difference was the package.There was hardly some air in the "bad" coffee packets.I mean, it wasn't like the sugar packet. But the last one was normal.I hope you see what I'm trying to explain.
There is no chewing gum in these rations anymore but there are 2 teabags and they are sometimes just wrapped into paper sleeves (bags).
Everything is tightly packed like this:

The green thing you can see inside is the tea.

[Nawt]

That hollywood gum is very strong.

...

It is indeed. I remember that. When you opened up the particular rations, the smell of the gum was the first thing to enter your nose.

Good to read that the latest coffee experience is better Woodland!
Stay hydrated!

[Woodland]

Good to read that the latest coffee experience is better Woodland!
Stay hydrated!

I'm trying