Thread: Original Coffee

Originally Posted by OhOh

Every village market has the Thai coffee in a sock here. Taste awful but it is ground beans.

Apparently it all started during WWII as a substitute for expensive coffee. But what did coffee drinkers use before then? What do the village aficionado's do now? Do they roast and blend for their own consumption? Or do they buy recognised commercial brands?

I have been assured that the cobra brand is the worst of the lot and it is the brew everyone uses.