Coffee On The Campaign

[Legion Para]

 

[civilken]

Yes I and a Civil War geek I love the episode keep it up boys.

 

[Dave Wilma]

With luck the soldier has time to attend to the desired side effect of a cup of coffee.

 

[kholland]

With luck the soldier has time to attend to the desired side effect of a cup of coffee.

And I understood that sometimes guys would chew on coffee beans while on the march. And 19 year old commissary Sergeant William McKinley during fierce fighting at Antietam brought in vats of coffee for the 23d Ohio. He was cited fir this and promoted to 2d Lieutenant.

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/william-mckinley-coffee-and-antietam.21918/

 

[LoriAnn]

Where's the chocolate syrup and whipped cream?!

 

[Dave Wilma]

And I understood that sometimes guys would chew on coffee beans while on the march.

I chew on coffee beans to get through the afternoon. Now to find the chocolate covered beans I could get in San Francisco.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Naval historian Samuel Eliot Morrison once said that the U.S. Navy could probably win a war without coffee-- but would prefer not to try it.

 

[Waterloo50]

I enjoyed that vid, but I have a question, Brits very rarely drink black coffee, in fact I don't know anyone that drinks black coffee, did CW soldiers ever use sugar or milk in their coffee or wasn't it the done thing. And, one final question, do Americans still prefer to drink black coffee? its just that when ever I see an American TV show or movie, there is always a pot of coffee in the background somewhere, and they always seem to drink it black.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

I won't say never, but milk/cream and sugar wouldn't have been available often in the field. I know from my (20th Century) Army service that strong, black coffee is still the beverage of choice. (In one office in Europe near Stuttgart where I worked for a time, the usual office staff was a major and a sergeant-first-class; they would start the coffee going in the morning and just add new coffee through the day, never removing the old grounds. By the evening, it was something fierce.)

I drink black coffee on a regular basis, though I don't mind the occasional latte or something to change things up.

(Come to think of it, I think I read somewhere of British naval officers coming back from visits to American vessels during WW2, feeling decidedly over-caffeinated.)

 

[Waterloo50]

I won't say never, but milk/cream and sugar wouldn't have been available often in the field. I know from my (20th Century) Army service that strong, black coffee is still the beverage of choice. (In one office in Europe near Stuttgart where I worked for a time, the usual office staff was a major and a sergeant-first-class; they would start the coffee going in the morning and just add new coffee through the day, never removing the old grounds. By the evening, it was something fierce.)

I drink black coffee on a regular basis, though I don't mind the occasional latte or something to change things up.

Perhaps its the coffee we have in England but drinking it black is pretty disgusting, I drink coffee more than I drink tea but its usually granulated instant coffee, I have a Tassimo Machine but even that comes in little pods, perhaps I need to try real coffee made from fresh beans and see what all the fuss is about. Anyone ever tried camp coffee.

 

[Yankeedave]

I enjoyed that vid, but I have a question, Brits very rarely drink black coffee, in fact I don't know anyone that drinks black coffee, did CW soldiers ever use sugar or milk in their coffee or wasn't it the done thing. And, one final question, do Americans still prefer to drink black coffee? its just that when ever I see an American TV show or movie, there is always a pot of coffee in the background somewhere, and they always seem to drink it black.

In some occasions you would get a random square on a checker board that would contain the ground form of coffee, sugar, and cream.

 

[Waterloo50]

In some occasions you would get a random square on a checker board that would contain the ground form of coffee, sugar, and cream.

A bit like the Nescafe 3 in 1 packs then, I use them when I go camping.

Great Avatar by the way

 

[Seduzal]

 

[Yankeedave]

A bit like the Nescafe 3 in 1 packs then, I use them when I go camping.

Great Avatar by the way

 

[Yankeedave]

I cant like my own post? i see why...

 

[Reb]

I enjoyed that vid, but I have a question, Brits very rarely drink black coffee, in fact I don't know anyone that drinks black coffee, did CW soldiers ever use sugar or milk in their coffee or wasn't it the done thing. And, one final question, do Americans still prefer to drink black coffee? its just that when ever I see an American TV show or movie, there is always a pot of coffee in the background somewhere, and they always seem to drink it black.

There was a canned coffee product that had both sugar and cream mixed together. It was a "instant" coffee that all you had to do was add water

 

[Waterloo50]

I cant like my own post? i see why...

I panicked for a moment there, I thought to myself, Oh ****, what happens if that Avatar wasn't Monty Python but some elderly relatives of Yankeedave, Just checked, its okay, it is indeed Monty Python.

 

[Waterloo50]

There was a canned coffee product that had both sugar and cream mixed together. It was a "instant" coffee that all you had to do was add water
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Was this coffee available during the CW, it looks like its from the early 1900s.

 

[Legion Para]

Union soldiers were issued condensed milk.

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/gail-borden-and-condensed-milk.74365/

 

[LoriAnn]

And, one final question, do Americans still prefer to drink black coffee?

I have family members who drink it black. I think they're weird. And when I think you're weird, that's saying something.

I'm a big fan of tarted-up coffee. Cream, sugar, whipped cream, cinnamon and cloves, sprinkles of some sort...

My favorite to date is a holiday drink offered at Starbucks: Chestnut Praline Latte