"It may be ersatz coffee, but at least the caffeine's real."

They were out in the streets early, waving, smiling, offering us ersatz coffee.

There was roll call, and distribution of lukewarm ersatz coffee.

Civilians had to make ersatz coffee from barley or substitutes.

Everyone's hungry; except for the ersatz coffee, a week's food ration doesn't last two days.

Later, ersatz coffee and bread were brought in.

The captain, in a moment of compassion, ordered some ersatz coffee prepared and served to us boiling hot.

In the Second World War, they even made them into an ersatz coffee."

It was nearly two o'clock and there were few soldiers drinking the hot soup and ersatz coffee.

They were drinking filthy ersatz coffee in a Cornerhouse.

I took a slurp of ersatz coffee.

We put our heads together and in the calmer light of logic and much ersatz coffee solved the problem.

Minutes later he passed through red battle-light-interrupted darkness, to the mess decks for a quick cup of ersatz coffee before going to the bridge.

Breakfast consists of plain, unbuttered brea and ersatz coffee.

Kurt swallowed a mouthful of ersatz coffee.

Many inmates used their morning "ersatz coffee" to wash themselves; since it tasted so bad, it wasn't worth drinking anyway.

"We have some stew- pork and turnips- and some ersatz coffee.

Heinrich Jager looked up from the pot of extremely ersatz coffee he was brewing over a tiny cookfire.

Breakfast consisted of warm milk or ersatz coffee and bread and jam, sometimes augmented by farmer's cheese.

Some listeners will find this disk insufferably moronic; others will throw open the windows and break out the ersatz coffee.

In the morning, Foehringer related, "two young boys came into the cave and brought with them black bread, lard and ersatz coffee.

It was not till 9.45 that they came out of the dining room after a breakfast of yoghurt, fried eggs, maize rolls and ersatz coffee.

Her family rustled up a reasonable facsimile of life under communism, digging out Soviet-era jam and ersatz coffee.

Lieutenant Commander Werner Heer, her master, was drinking ersatz coffee and trying not to smoke any more cigarettes.