Whenever we read the word “blend” on the side of a packet, we instinctively think “beans swept up off the floor”. But who cares, as we are firm believers in the 3 minute rule for things that have been on the floor – you could eat your dinner off our floor. Providing you don’t mind it […]
Lidl French Blend Coffee Read Post »
This is a weird looking one that comes from France. It has a bit of English on the side that says “Creamy Coffee Personified” which is quite literarily wrong, as creamy coffee it may be, it still is just a tin of coffee and not a person. Which is what I was lead to believe […]
Malongo L’Express Coffee Read Post »
Unusually for the Frenchies this has got a country of origin stamped on it. It came from good old Carrefour so its easy to come by. We expected a lemon twang from this – that’s what you normally get from these East African coffees. Not the case here though – if any word could be […]
Carrefour Ethiopia Coffee Read Post »
This is a French coffee and it came in a dinky little half size packet – why don’t more coffees come in these little sizes? The whole world should start getting used to small packets. The whole pack is gone in a day and every day you could be on to a fresh one. Except […]
DE Master Blenders Maison du Café Coffee Read Post »
The French don’t go in for the country of origin on their coffees. You never see words like “Kenya” or “Ethiopia” on their packets – they just don’t care. All you’ll see is words like “coffee” or, if they are being slightly more descriptive, “family”. And it’s not surprising – bearing in mind the average […]
Monoprix Café Moulu Pur Arabica Intense Read Post »
First coffee of the year – and it’s a French import bought from a flit to Gay Paris. It’s the usual Euro-Brick packaging – but for once someone has managed to design a packet that you can actually open with your bare hands and that doesn’t immediately dump half its contents straight down the front […]
San Marco Italiano Coffee Read Post »
This coffee came from a Calais supermarket, and with a name like this it just stood out from the crowd. It’s rare to find a French coffee in a poncy paper bag like this rather than in the standard glossy euro-brick. The beans are a very light brown and very dry looking. So dry in […]
Another Frenchy from the top end of the scale in the Supermarche. Segafredo is a big brand that you see all over Europe – and we’ve had one of them before and it was kind of OK – because it was a cheapy. So I splashed out on this one – it was nearer 4 […]
Segafredo Arôme and Sensation Coffee Read Post »
One of the Judges picked this up on a recent trip to Le Mans from the Arnage Supermarche. We’ve learnt our lesson on buying French coffees – they have hundreds to choose from , but always choose from the right hand side of the display – i.e. the more expensive, because they have more than […]
Jacques Vabre Terroir De Kitale Kenya Coffee Read Post »
What are we doing starting the week with another one of these French Cheapies? Because we live on the edge, that’s why. We wern’t expecting much from this one but we did notice how finely ground it is, so we took the initiative to make it a bit weaker. And it worked! By which I […]
Grand Mere Familial Coffee Read Post »
