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Dave Phelps

Bring a guy from "northernmost VA" I had to dig a bit to decipher your message below.  Please confirm the two items below:

A). SML refers to Smith Mtn Lake
B). H&C is Woods Brothers coffee in Roanoke

Thanks
Jim Stapleton

> On Oct 28, 2019, at 22:36, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Ken et all:
> 
> I'm not a coffee "connoisseur" by any stretch, but I am at least a tad discriminating, and I like the N&W coffee very much and will buy some more soon.  By comparison, when my  late wife and I moved to SML, we bought some H&C to try it out and were "underwhelmed."  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave Phelps
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 5:19 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>> Dave
>> 
>> I’m not a coffee drinker, so I cannot answer the question of taste. My wife is the coffee drinker and she likes it a lot, thinks it does not have the bitter taste that a lot of coffee does.
>> 
>> On the authenticity, the folks who make the coffee have a variety of railroad related food products, to mention but a few: PRR coffee, Reading Coffee, Southern Railway biscuit mix, New Haven Johnny cakes, etc.
>> 
>> This is the only N&W recipe that they have. But it came from the files of the Dining Car Superintendents Association, which they acquired the files of some time back. It is mid 1920s mix, which stayed on the N&W until sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s (man, I wish we had those files!) when it was replaced with another brand, then a bit later was replaced with H&C Coffee made in Roanoke. The H&C Coffee stayed on until the end of service.
>> 
>> We have a good supply in the Commissary.
>> 
>> Ken Miller
>> 
>>> On Oct 28, 2019, at 3:05 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Has anyone else tried the new N&W coffee available from The Commissary?  I have but I'm not a coffee expert, so all I can say is that I liked it.  It seems to be a good middle-of-the-road blend, but I'd be interested in more learned opinions.   
>>> 
>>> How about its authenticity?  I had some back in 1959-1960 on the Shenandoah Valley runs and a round trip from Christiansburg to Williamson in 1959, but I can't recall anything specific about it.  
>>> 
>>> IMO it's a good addition to the Commissary's offerings.
>>> 
>>> Dave Stephenson
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