Oregon resident and Postum-lover Ellen Mandel talks to Scott Simon about the drink's 100-year run as coffee's caffeine-free cousin. Before the final goodbye, the two enjoy one last drink.

Postum was once so much a part of Mormon life that coffee tables elsewhere were referred to as Postum tables. But the drink appears to have fallen out of fashion even while the church has grown.

Wanda, Auburn. Answer: Postum is a powdered roasted grain beverage that was sold by the Kraft Foods company as a coffee substitute. According to a January article from the Adventist News Network ...

Before he developed his signature breakfast products like Grape Nuts, Post went into business in 1895 selling a cereal-based, caffeine-free coffee substitute called Postum. Now, the words "cereal ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. "Coffee had the peculiar effect on me of thickening the blood and lessening it in quality, in other ...

Food substitutes are often accompanied ... a marketing point in the early 20th century. Ads for Postum sometimes featured “Mr. Coffee Nerves,” a demonic, ghostly archvillain who stood for ...

Friday marks National Coffee Day, the unofficial holiday for coffee addicts, where the buzz online is where to find deals on free or discounted cups of java. But “because it’s free” isn’t ...

It all started with an ad campaign run by the Post cereal company (who today makes cereal ranging from Grape-Nuts to Oreo O’s) to promote a coffee substitute dubbed “Postum.” “You can't ...

Before he developed his signature breakfast products like Grape Nuts, Post went into business in 1895 selling a cereal-based, caffeine-free coffee substitute called Postum. Now, the words ...