I bought these online a couple of months ago, specifically for a trip overseas where I couldn’t bring a coffee maker and coffee wasn’t available. It was a lifesaver.
It is also perfect for soldiers. Have you ever tried that instant stuff they put in MRE’s??
They use Tasters Choice packets now, or did. Some might say it’s an improvement, I dunno. I was partial to Type II, style 7 (or whatever it was called). It was awful, but it did contain caffiene which was the point. Oncet, I was nodding off on a long convoy at o-dark thirty. No prob, cept I was driving. I was outta coffee so I just swigged alternating sips of water from canteen and the freeze-dried coffee packet. In a couple minutes I was decently awake.
When I went hiking and was still dumb enough to drink freeze-dried, I found something called M’daglia Dora or something like that. Lots of people around the world drink freeze dried, but they cream and sugar the heck out of it. It’s not really coffee per se.
Folgers sells “tea-bags” full of finely ground coffee/freeze-dried. If you double or triple the dosage to taste they are pretty handy in the bush. Sure, cowboy coffee simmered for hours is best, but sometimes ya just gotta feed the monster, and pronto.