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Back in the day, I was based in Texas and the Process R&D person for a plastics production unit in Louisiana. Once or twice a month, I would make a day trip to the facility in the company's King Air. Nice way to commute and a heck of a lot stressful than highway commuting. The county airport was 10min from the house then usually a 90 min flight to Louisiana, taxi into the hanger with a rental car waiting inside for the easy drive to the facility.

The first time I was at the Louisiana facility was a day in meetings and during the morning break, I went to the break room next to the control room to grab a quick coffee. It was curious in that it was the smallest styrofoam coffee cup I'd ever seen. I drink run of the mill break room coffee black so this stuff by habit I had the same way. Took a drink and it about knocked me over. I had to take baby sips to handle it.

Anyway, I found out later that it was homemade recipe chicory coffee. The operators got kick out of feeding it to unsuspecting victims like me. LOL... With cream and sugar, it's amazing but black it's almost lethal.

How they made it is to brew the coffee up normally then spoon a straight chicory brew into the fresh brewed coffee pot. The straight chicory was brewed separately as you do coffee and then put into a pot and concentrated into a syrup on a stove. The syrup was stored in the fridge and added to a regular coffee brew. That's how Mama taught them at home.