people who drink mellow birds
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Manter
Lunch Mob
Yes. Unspeakably foulSpeaking of wrong stuff... has anyone ever tried instant tea granules?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
It's a kind of instant coffee, popular in the 1970s, characterised by having all the flavour and anything resembling coffee-ness, apart from the brown (and presumably the caffeine), removed from it.
Most notable for its presentation: MB, along with other usually shite coffees, came as powder rather than granules.
Essentially, it's coffee for people who don't like coffee.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
And Findus crispy pancakes.Never heard of Mellow Birds? Next you will be saying you know not of Vesta curries.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Mellow birds should go in the prole food thread come to think of it.
Back somewhere in the mists of time... Can't have been that great else i'd still be drinking it.Speaking of wrong stuff... has anyone ever tried instant tea granules?
Manter
Lunch Mob
They existed in the 80s. I know them.... Staple childhood food
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
I tried them again not so long ago. They look a lot smaller now
Manter
Lunch Mob
I had vienetta the other day. As nice as I remember....I tried them again not so long ago. They look a lot smaller now
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Viennetta's always on my shopping list
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Surprisingly, at approx 335mg of caffeine per litre (MAFF), Mellow Birds is amongst the strongest instant coffees on the market - only a couple of
"Instant Espresso" brands are significantly higher at around 560mg/l.
In fact, 335mg/l makes Mellow Birds considerably stronger than most medium roast real coffees, which weigh-in somewhere between 140-210mg/l
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8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Talking of Tesco, for gobsmackingly decent instant coffee, you won't go far wrong with Tesco Classic Rich Roast. It's about tuppence ha'penny for the smallest jar. So it's worth a try for anyone who's a prole like me and who doesn't actually object to instant coffee as a point of principle, but who thinks Maxwell House and Nescafe are gak.
Once upon a time my uncle offered me a coffee and gave me Barleycup. Holy sweet Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezus, that's some nasty shit. It must have been about twenty years ago now but the thought of it still gives me the boke. AND they still make it.
The missus is giving up caffeine and tried barley cup for a month. I laughed like a hyena whenever she tried to like it.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
what about this shite?
shudder
has guarana
Not that one but I have consumed another coffee/guarana brand and it was quite nice. Then they brought-out a "new formula" that changed a quite decent instant with a useful kick into a really god-awful Nescafe clone - yuck!
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
No way! - IME, Mellow Birds was the choice coffee of the decidedly genteel/aspirational, middle-class types.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I would like to try that!what about this shite?
shudder
has guarana
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
This?Not that one but I have consumed another coffee/guarana brand and it was quite nice. Then they brought-out a "new formula" that changed a quite decent instant with a useful kick into a really god-awful Nescafe clone - yuck!
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Is guarana really any different from any other source of caffeine ?
It also contains some theobromine like cocoa does.
It also contains some theobromine like cocoa does.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It's got the right morning drug in it! Migty even taste nicer than coffee!nooooooooooo!
i'm not out to convert people to it!!
just wanted to warn of it's horror!
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
That was the later, vile version. The original in the less fancy jar was quite drinkable.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
If you want more caffeine in the morning, just drink your brew of choice and drop a couple of caffeine pills. Same effect and you get something nicer to drink.
It's more expensive and gives you a sanctimonious glow because you're not really using anything like caffeine - honest.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
It's more expensive and gives you a sanctimonious glow because you're not really using anything like caffeine - honest.
It's supposed to release the caffeine slower.
It's dirt cheap though if you buy the extract, but completely rank tasting and doesn't dissolve that well. I end up putting it in caps to make my own energy pills, but didn't bother again.Never heard of this either. Coffee wankers are worse than real ail bores though arent' they. Ooh I couldn't possibly countanence drinking Nescafe, you tasteless barbarian. Fuck off then. (Actually I do have ground and a filter machine but you know.)
And alright, instant tea is an abomination. Tried some of that Q tea first time I lived away from home. Pointless drek.
And alright, instant tea is an abomination. Tried some of that Q tea first time I lived away from home. Pointless drek.
