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‘All I could smell was fertiliser’: the best (and worst) supermarket instant coffee, tasted and rated

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a culture story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 14 Nov 2026, 13:00 UTC. The headline in use is “‘All I could smell was fertiliser’: the best (and worst) supermarket instant coffee, tasted and rated”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Our coffee snob spills the beans on which granules hint at chocolate and caramel, and which leave a bitter note • Everything you need to make great coffee I’m a coffee snob with my own grinder, but I found the haptic thwack, whack and crack of opening the lid and…
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