Talk:Camp Coffee

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Is its caffeine free?
It may be mostly chicory, but the article gives no source for the caffeine-free claim. I found this list of ingredients: "Sugar, Water, Chicory Extract (25%), Dried Coffee Extract (4%)" at This is used as evidence it is 'cafeinne free' by some sources, but if it is that's only because the coffee is so dilute? Stub Mandrel (talk) 20:38, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Derisory
The description is very derisory. May be accurate but I'm sure people wouldn't ever accept a wiki describition of real coffee as being a brown liquid comprising 99% water and trace elements of burnt coffee bean and caffeine. Not really a fair description for a product that was used by milllions of people at a time of rationing as a substitute for real coffee which was very difficult and expensive to obtain during the war. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:104:4001:71:CD86:FAB0:84D6:A1FF (talk) 09:02, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Is it any good?
Does it taste nice? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:CD46:C900:F89C:D780:49D:56BC (talk) 17:12, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Sir Hector MacDonald
I was not aware until recently of Sir Hector MacDonald, a Scottish war hero of the 19th century who is supposed to be commemorated on the Camp coffee label. Although he was not "camp" in the other sense of the term, his sad end could be used to market him as an LGBTQ+ hero. There is also a possible European angle for the MacCormick company to pursue, since the German High Command during the Great War encouraged Scottish soldiers to believe that Sir Hector had not shot himself in his Parisian hotel, but escaped to Germany to become a Life Hussar and eventually Field Marshall August von Mackensen.Perhaps the turbanned batman could be changed to a Death's Head Hussar. NRPanikker (talk)

When created?
Is there a Reliable Source for when Camp was first produced? The page has two dates: 1876 and 1885.

The earliest definite newspaper mention I can find is "Paterson’s Camp Coffee", 9 January 1893 (Glasgow Evening Post). Nedrutland (talk) 11:33, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Picture of label?
Two paragraphs - more than half of the entire article - are devoted to a detailed description of the illustration on the product packaging. Since you obviously think this is the most important and interesting thing about Camp Coffee, might there be grounds for including an actual picture of the thing the article is about, instead of wasting space telling us what it looks like? The illustration you have at the moment is useless and borderline irrelevant, since all it proves is that the manufacturers of a consumer product advertise it in the usual way, and have done for a long time, as if people needed to be persusaded of something that goes without saying. Also, it's is a bit like illustrating an article on Superman with a black and white photo of a 1940s newsagent's window in which an issue of Action Comics with Superman on the cover is just about visible in the background. Was this article written by an AI that almost understood how to perform the task but not quite? 86.145.55.74 (talk) 21:00, 8 July 2023 (UTC)