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Coffee substitutes

I wonder if anyone, with experience, can make Instructables explaining how to make coffee substitutes. I understand that coffee substitutes have been made from different sources: chicory, dandelion roots, coffeeweeds, garbanzo beans and, grains. Cassia occidentalis is known as Coffeeweed in some parts of the United States and as Hedionda in Puerto Rico. The Cassia occidentalis and Senna occidentalis produce a very aromatic brew. It was used once during a coffee shortage. 


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Computothought says: Aug 24, 2012. 5:06 AM
http://www.instructables.com/id/Confederate-coffee-or-tea-recipe/
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rimar2000 says: Aug 18, 2012. 8:39 AM
You must try yerba mate. It is very different from coffe and tea, maybe at first you will not like it, but is very pleasant and healthy drink.

But I must warn about a possible dangerous effect: you could turn argentine! That would be terrible.
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blkhawk (author) in reply to rimar2000Aug 18, 2012. 3:10 PM
I had an Uruguayan friend that brought me yerba mate. I cursed like a sailor because it was scalding hot! It is a powerful brew, very invigorating. If I turn Argentinean I have to join the country's soccer fan club.
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rimar2000 in reply to blkhawkAug 19, 2012. 6:32 AM
In ROU (República Oriental del Uruguay) the childbirth are very expensive, because little Uruguayan born with the thermos under the arm.

Uruguayan walk by the streets, do business, etc, with the mate in hand.
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blkhawk (author) in reply to rimar2000Aug 19, 2012. 12:23 PM
Ha, ha, ha! I know that both countries have to settle some old scores. Now, remember that the only thing that separates both of you is the river. :-)
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rimar2000 in reply to blkhawkAug 20, 2012. 1:48 PM
I (and almost all Argentine) love the people of Uruguay, are friendly, charming, hospitable. Our rulers Kirchner have had several encounters with them, but the blame is solely of our govern.
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Goodhart in reply to rimar2000Aug 20, 2012. 11:17 PM
Isn't that how it normally is, pretty much everywhere.
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caitlinsdad in reply to blkhawkAug 18, 2012. 3:38 PM
I can't recall but from a TV special once there are some aboriginal tribes of South America that brew something and is supposed to be hallucinogenic.
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rimar2000 in reply to caitlinsdadAug 19, 2012. 6:27 AM
Hahaha!

Yes, it is true. In all countries there are people that uses hallucinogenic herbs, fungus, roots, etc. But yerba mate is not dangerous, here almost all persons drink it at morning, afternoon and night. Beginnig with little children, because coffe, chocolate and tea are much more exciting.
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blkhawk (author) in reply to rimar2000Aug 19, 2012. 11:59 AM
An older Uruguayan gentleman ( who by the way was in the national soccer team when Uruguay won the soccer Worlds Cup in the 1950's) brought yerba mate after vacationing in his country. When he came back to the States, he was questioned by customs about the bag with the yerba mate. Not convinced with his explanation the officers sent the yerba mate to a laboratory. When the results came back negative for drugs, the officers told my friend that the herb is even very healthy and good for him.
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onrust in reply to blkhawkAug 24, 2012. 6:04 PM
That's funny.....I love the stuff!
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rimar2000 in reply to onrustAug 25, 2012. 5:19 AM
Aníbal Troilo "Pichuco" was a prominent argentinian music, and suffered a similar case that says blkhawk.
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blkhawk (author) in reply to rimar2000Aug 25, 2012. 7:09 AM
I only know Libertad Lamarque "the bride of America". Great voice! It is true that Eva Peron was jealous of her fame?
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rimar2000 in reply to blkhawkAug 26, 2012. 6:16 AM
Oh, I don't know if that is true or fable. It is very possible, women are women in all world, but it is impossible to be sure.

Libertad Lamarque was a good Tango singer, but you must hear this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCShCDqYEU4

The audio is bad (too bad) but you can appreciate the quality of Troilo and his orchestra.  Surely there are others better examples in Internet.
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blkhawk (author) in reply to caitlinsdadAug 18, 2012. 3:53 PM
I remember that in the Caribbean there is a plant that has a flower shaped like a bell. Drug addicts make an infusion with this flower and experience hallucinations similar to the ones produced by hallucinogenic mushrooms, peyote or LSD. The police destroy these plants whenever they are found.
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rimar2000 in reply to blkhawkAug 19, 2012. 6:43 AM
That plant is named floripondio. Here in my city (Villa Elisa, BA) there are a lot in homes and streets. At home I have one of them, the aroma (parfum?) of its flowers is very very pleasant, at dusk-night. It is visually nice, too.

Fortunately its hallucinogenic effects are not so massively known here, I don't know is some person uses it as drug.
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blkhawk (author) in reply to rimar2000Aug 19, 2012. 12:13 PM
That's it! I know it as flor de campana or campanilla. This must be the plant that Caitlinsdad mentioned in his post. Brugmansia is the known name of floripondio here in the States. I knew this recovered addict that told me that it was the most horrible "trip" that he ever experienced after drinking tea made with the Brugmansia flower.
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rimar2000 in reply to blkhawkAug 20, 2012. 1:36 PM
There are horrible stories about that plant. Also deaths, passing thru permanent insanity.
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blkhawk (author) in reply to rimar2000Aug 20, 2012. 6:39 PM
True. Also I heard of people getting "high" with nutmeg.
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Goodhart in reply to blkhawkAug 20, 2012. 11:19 PM
Yeah, IF you get the whole nut (with the covering that is normally used as the spice Mace) I have read if you suck in the whole thing, you can get high......I know someone that tried it, and all they got was sick to the stomach LOL
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blkhawk (author) in reply to GoodhartAug 22, 2012. 11:13 AM
I saw in the show Thousand Ways to Die, these two potheads that smoked poison ivy or poison sumac trying to get high and they suffered a horrible death. That is natural selection at work. :-(
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Goodhart in reply to blkhawkAug 22, 2012. 4:31 PM
They should be candidates for the infamous Darwin Awards LOL
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lemonie says: Aug 19, 2012. 2:06 PM
One of my "brown and hot" standbys id Bovril (R)
I believe that there is an actual Sci-Fi etymological-derivation from Vril, but I only know as much as that page.

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blkhawk (author) in reply to lemonieAug 19, 2012. 3:59 PM
Never heard of this drink before. Maybe unknown in the States.
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lemonie in reply to blkhawkAug 20, 2012. 1:44 PM
Bovril(R) is a Unilever consumer-product.

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kelseymh in reply to lemonieAug 20, 2012. 10:16 PM
The name "beef squeezy" is just wrong :-D
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blkhawk (author) in reply to lemonieAug 20, 2012. 6:45 PM
The company operates in the United States but it does not offer Bovril® as part of their products. I wonder if I can find it in an imported foods store. 
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caitlinsdad in reply to blkhawkAug 20, 2012. 10:05 PM
There is a listing on amazon but it seems Bovril import was kinda banned due to the fear of mad cow disease as you search.
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kelseymh says: Aug 17, 2012. 10:07 PM
I found one (but it wasn't easy to find!)

http://www.instructables.com/id/Confederate-coffee-or-tea-recipe/
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blkhawk (author) in reply to kelseymhAug 18, 2012. 5:39 AM
Thank you! Now I can add peanuts to the list.
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caitlinsdad says: Aug 17, 2012. 5:15 PM
I think it should be chicory, hickory is a wood, chicory coffee is found in New Orleans. But the various others 

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blkhawk (author) in reply to caitlinsdadAug 17, 2012. 5:21 PM
Roger that! Thank you.
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