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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
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🇦🇹 Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
🇫🇮 Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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I encourage people to try getting locally roasted beans. The quality of the brew is far above what you can get at any supermarket brand.
It does generally cost a bit more, but I don't think it's unmanageable. If optimizing caffeine intake for cost, the economical choice is probably to ditch coffee for caffeine pills.
Use this as a catalyst to buy local beans. You will not regret the change.
Why use the Polish flag for Tesco?
Mandela effect. I could have sworn it was a Polish company. Corrected now!
Side note: “Keurig Dr Pepper” sounds disgusting. Who greenlit that name and why are they still employed there?
Lol 😂😂
Sweden: Arvid Nordquist
I was wrong about the following:
~~Also: Löfbergs is owned by Nestlé or a subsidiary since ten years back or so.~~
As a värmlänning. I did not know of the Löfbergs nestle connections. I am also unable to find it in any Swedish sources. Spare to share your Intel? :)
I have to do what’s called a ”pudel” (a poodle) in Swedish. Löfbergs launched several coffee varieties (like Karisma) around 10 years ago and they ended up on a blacklisting due to Nestlé connections. So I haven’t bought any coffee from them for many years. But as it seems now, I was either misinformed or just naively against anything related to Nestlé. Sorry, fuck Nestlé, but I might just start enjoying Löfbergs again. Thank you for the comments.
I can't find anything about Löfbergs being owned by Nestlé online, do you have a source?
I have to do what’s called a ”pudel” (a poodle) in Swedish. Löfbergs launched several coffee varieties around 10 years ago and they ended up on a blacklisting due to Nestlé connections. So I haven’t bought any coffee from them for many years. But as it seems now, I was either misinformed or just naively against anything related to Nestlé. Sorry, fuck Nestlé, but I might just start enjoying Löfbergs again. Thank you for the comments.
To "pudla" is too often seen as a bad thing, it's good to admit when one is wrong, thanks for the info/retraction
Zoegas is also owned by Nestlé. Arvid Nordqvist only coffee option in Sweden.
Also tastes better in my opinion.
As I stated in the other comments, I have to retract my statement about Löfbergs. Sorry.
Arvid Nordqvist only coffee option in Sweden.
As Finn, I may have said that I prefer Nordqvist to Paulig stuff. I'm not admitting anything though. I'm just saying there is a possibility that I may have perhaps let words to that effect come out of my Nordqvist filled mouth.
Stop it you two. Things are bad enough. We don't need the Swedes and the Finns agreeing. Nothing good can come of it.
Hakkapeliitta intensifies
Well there's a fun Wikipedia hole for me to fall into. Thanks!
You are most welcome!
I didn't know this. Thanks.
I have to retract my statement about Nestlé owning Löfbergs. Sorry. I was wrong.
There goes the brand I use. I don't really care the brand, all instant coffee is similarly bad, the deciding factor was the jar and what it worries me is that they could go for a cheaper jar that I can't use afterwards.
American here.
I understand the impulse, and I hate Trump as much as anybody.
I just want to point out that BMW's biggest plant is in the USA and America's top beer is owned by a Belgian company.
When it comes to the 0.01% oligarchy, there's no 'Europe' or 'America' it's all about the money.
Yeah. Buying European is a cool concept, but when you're improving "the economy", that doesn't actually mean you're improving the lives of your neighbors. The way we measure "the economy" has been corrupted throughout modern history to really only look at how the ultra wealthy are doing and not the regular people. This helps prevent governments from doing anything that hurts corporations in any meaningful way.
GDP is a great example of that kind of skewed metric.
Don't get me started on 'skewed metrics.'
According to the official inflation counter, $1,500.00 in 1960 is about $15,000.00 in 2026.
You could buy a good, brand new car in 1960 for $1,500.00.
A cheap new car in 2026 is $20,000.00
All below numbers are for the USA.
In 1960, an average house cost $11,900 ($132,721 adjusted for inflation).
In 2026, an average house costs $429k.
In 1960, the federal minimum wage was $1/hr ($11.15 adjusted for inflation).
In 2026, the federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr
We could go on for hours...
It's 2026 and I'm still trying to figure out what happened...
🇸🇪 Arvid Nordquist is my favorite.
Barry's and Lyons are Irish and delicious. Lyons is blended in te UK but Barrys is all Irish.
No Bustelo or Bones? Word, I'm good.
I used to work at a museum in Cornwall and the café stocked Cornish Tea
Their coffee is pretty good as well.
~~> Teekanne~~
~~Goddammit.~~
I'm stupid.
The list is of european alternatives btw
Omg im fucking stupid lol
Thank you for telling me.
Evergood and Ali coffee are still norwegian brands, I think, and hope.
I look forward to prosecuting all of these sales as treason in a near future and convicting all who intermediated the sales to exile with passport removal and sanctions.
Grind coffee is also British and an independent company
Esssecaffé, it's the company the Segafredo family started after selling the original company. I've never bought their coffee for home use, but whenever I have one in a bar (café), it's great.
I mostly drink decaf and the only that tastes good is Lucaffe. I heavily recommend their products: