Postum Gone Postmortem
This jar of imitation coffee was a staple in the kitchen cupboard of our home growing up. We rarely drank the stuff, though, and that may be why Kraft discontinued it. I don’t miss it enough to bid on it. Actually, I hardly miss it at all. But seeing it reminds me of my childhood, and sometimes I miss that.
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Published February 20, 2008
6 responses to “Postum Gone Postmortem”
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Tags: childhood, eternal sunshine of the spotness mind, kraft, lacuna inc., memory, nostalgia, postum
February 20th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
HELLO! this is just the coffee beverage i’ve been looking for. i’ma buy me a drank. your childhood kitchen cupboard and i must have a lot in common. i assume i’ll be able to delete this later.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
but it’s decaf — that means there’s no caffeine in it! which means you won’t feel anything but the dissatisfaction of having consumed something that merely aspires to be something else. if you are what you eat, are you what you drink too? an imitation that will never live up to the high quality standards set by its predecessor?
February 20th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
when eating fake bacon, does one feel nothing but the dissatisfaction of having consumed something that merely aspires to be something else? i note that some people repeatedly devour frozen meatless bacon strips with such gusto that they don’t even bother to heat the strips up.
you are what you eat and you are what you drink, too! in this case, we are both pots calling kettles black. do we eat what we are?
i hope i can delete this later.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
touché! however, fake bacon — frozen or thawed — is superior to its predecessor in that its existence saves pigs and encourages conscious mastication. postum can’t claim to save animals like fake bacon can, but it is a healthy alternative to coffee for humans. so while I knock postum for not having caffeine, that’s actually something it had going for it for the past 112 years.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:04 am
there’s a possum that’s been dead for 112 years?
also, do you know if there’s a way to delete this later?
February 21st, 2008 at 12:26 am
rhetorical questions get rhetorical answers!