Coffee/Tea Ground Peas & Cockroach Coffee (Substitute)

ground peas & cockroach coffee
(from The Weekly Intelligencer of Fayettville, North Carolina, February 10, 1864)

Ingredients:

ground peas​

several cockroaches​

Instructions:

A friend, who has tried persimmon seeds in coffee, says he will defy any man to detect the difference in the taste between a decoction of roasted persimmon seeds and the genuine Java—not Rio—which can be imitated successfully, as we are informed, with parched ground peas and now and then a cockroach thrown in, says the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.​

 

[donna]

Another different way to make coffee. As I wrote before they must have been desperate.

 

[CivilWarTalk]

Another different way to make coffee. As I wrote before they must have been desperate.

Honestly, coffee made from ground peas and cockroaches, they were just in the wrong century, wrong part of the country.

Out on the West Coast prior to COVID, they could probably have charged $25 for a Grande sized cup of this, and had plenty of customers! Forget the protein shake, this would be a protein coffee, with vitamins and antioxidants from the peas. Just needed to add some caffeine, and it would be perfect!

Yum! Not!

 

[dgfred]

Nothing with cockroaches in it or on it can be good. The word is kind of nasty just by itself. Haha

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

Eeewwww!

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

I would hope that mention of adding a cockroach to the pot was a bit of humor, just like the grizzled cookie explaining that tapping the ashes from a cigarette into a pot of stew added some flavor.
One of the more interesting coffee substitute stories is about chicory, a common weed with blue flowers found everywhere. Seeds were carried here by French trappers and travelers who planted it at pull-outs and campsites along the streams of North America. They roasted the root, ground it an brewed it and it made a reasonable coffee substitute.
It grows wild all over the world now, spread on purpose so it can be available as a coffee additive or substitute

 

[lupaglupa]

I would hope that mention of adding a cockroach to the pot was a bit of humor, just like the grizzled cookie explaining that tapping the ashes from a cigarette into a pot of stew added some flavor.
One of the more interesting coffee substitute stories is about chicory, a common weed with blue flowers found everywhere. Seeds were carried here by French trappers and travelers who planted it at pull-outs and campsites along the streams of North America. They roasted the root, ground it an brewed it and it made a reasonable coffee substitute.

Get a coffee in New Orleans and you will probably have some chicory in it - that stayed popular there

 

[Rebel_Giratina]

Excuse me while I find a place to vomit....

 

[8thFlorida]

ground peas & cockroach coffee
(from The Weekly Intelligencer of Fayettville, North Carolina, February 10, 1864)View attachment 409877

Ingredients:

ground peas​

several cockroaches​

Instructions:

A friend, who has tried persimmon seeds in coffee, says he will defy any man to detect the difference in the taste between a decoction of roasted persimmon seeds and the genuine Java—not Rio—which can be imitated successfully, as we are informed, with parched ground peas and now and then a cockroach thrown in, says the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.​

Yankees used acorns!!

 

[8thFlorida]

Cockroach milk has been studied for its high nutritive value. Look it up.

 

[Pete Longstreet]

I actually just ate salted crickets on a camping trip a few weeks ago... they weren't bad. I'd probably try the cockroach coffee.

 

[damYankee]

Cockroach milk has been studied for its high nutritive value. Look it up.

Getting them to stand still while you milk them is a great challenge, we gave up and went back to milking cows and goats.

 

[Story]

Why should anyone be surprised at this revelation?
Folks in the midwest consumed grasshoppers with relish during the depths of the Great Depression.

 

[donna]

When people are hungry they eat just about anything. I guess so no surprise really about cockroach.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Cockroach milk has been studied for its high nutritive value. Look it up.

 

[damYankee]

When people are hungry they eat just about anything. I guess so no surprise really about cockroach.

For reference, ask any survivor of the Donner Party

 

[damYankee]

Pickle Milk because pickles can't run,

 

[FedericoFCavada]

I've eaten chapulines in Oaxaca, Mexico. They taste like chile and lime juice... But the texture is about what you might expect: Eating a bug...

I've got some real tales about cockroaches from travels abroad... But you really don't want to hear 'em. Trust me.

 

[donna]

Never heard of Pickle Milk.