A hunting post about coffee?

Was watching a TV show about Sweden and it was mentioned coffee is a big thing there. Coffee for morning or afternoon tea.

This reminded me of hunting with Staffan/Sville. Mid morning the moose hunting crew would get together for a coffee around a fire, toasting a sausage on a forked stick, or a telescopic toasting fork, similar to an old styling radio aerial on a car. I'd love some of these to sell on Nitro Express. Not even available from Ikea here. Maybe some cake around the fire, with the coffee, sausage, maybe sandwiches.

The sausages I was told in Sweden are all pre cooked. So toasted is easy. I've asked here and hard to find precooked sausages. Maybe some smoked at home could be done.

The fire is pleasant. Sitting around it on logs, cut log seats, tucker boxes or folding chairs.

I found carrying a small tripod folding chair strapped to my day pack essential as sitting during a moose drive on the ground 8s very wet, A good seat for coffee as well.

A pleasant civilised tradition for group hunting. We often in Australia don't enjoy some of these traditions. On fox drives, lunch is just a sustenance meal. No tradition. No fire to sit around either as it's February and fire bans, Not cold either. I was annoyed with myself not starting a camp fire when in the Top End hunting first with JB/larcher and later with Roscoe/Curl.

Small coffee flasks are great for the Kafe Abend!

I'm sure Germany and Central European, Eastern European countries do similar. Indeed there seem to be elaborate drive, group hunting ceremonies in Germany. I've never experienced one, just seen photos and videos. My friend JB/Karcher from France certainly enjoys his coffee as well.

Finland was said to be the biggest coffee drinker in Europe, Sweden second. I find this unusual, as the reputation of
Italy is well known.

I was thinking about Norway. Did we do this in Norway? NO!!! EricD had a nespresso machine at home but didn't drink coffee. JB when there used up a lot of his capsules!

But in the moose camp the other hunters had this really really aweful mud 5hey called coffee, Horrible! I think it was just coffee grounds continually added to the pot so it ended up two thirds mud and some liquid. Undrinkable. I determined to take my own coffee, a small plunger pot if I ever returned. Nowadays maybe a USB powered small nespresso coffee capsule maker! And a small plunger milk frother.

What a metro!

So tell us about your coffee traditions, ceremonies, hunting meal traditions.

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