Kenco Really Rich

~ ~ Those of you who have been around dooyoo for a while will know that the ‘mad cabbie’ has two major addictions these days. The bad one is the old nicotine (my beloved rollups) and the second is coffee; lots of it, and taken VERY strong and sweet. Short of hopping on a plane and flying out to my favourite Continental location, Italy, where they make the best cup of coffee in the whole world, I make do a lot of the time with an Italian ground coffee called ‘LavAzza’, which combined with my magical little Russell Hobbs Classic coffee maker makes a cuppa that is nearly (if not quite) as good as the real Italian original. ~ ~ But ...

I am a self confessed 'coffee nut' - or should it be 'coffee bean'? Anyway you like it, I will drink coffee - morning, noon and night - and as I write this I have a cup at my side (it's actually one I made earlier!) Those of us who love our coffee will tell you 'theres nothing like the REAL Thing' and the closest - in my opinion - you can come to the 'REAL' thing in - an instant - is KENCO REALLY RICH. I can remember those TV Ads with the Kenco coffee rep touring the South American bean farms, "But here try this" as she hands him a cup of Kenco instant. "it's the REAL thing". OK, I know that catch ...

There is no way I am ever going to drink Nescafe, apart from the ethics issues it just tastes like mud. I'd rather have 'proper' coffee all the time but that doesn't happen, for reasons of cost and the amount of effort involved. Kenco provides a good compromise, especially if you make it nice and strong, it really is a very good tasting coffee. As I like a strong coffee I prefer this blue label to it's red labeled sister "Really Smooth", however, it should be noted that this particular product's name did change some time back. It is now called "Rich and Smooth" rather than "Really Rich". As coffee is a relatively ...