JACOBS CRONAT GOLD INSTANT COFFEE makes an excellent cup of coffee!<br />ESPECIALLY if one likes a MILD cup of coffee.  Although the package<br />directions suggest NOT to boil the water, but to pour it just below<br />boiling, I have tried it both ways -- and find that, like other<br />instants, JACOBS CRONAT GOLD INSTANT COFFEE suits my own tastes bet-<br />ter, if the water is boiled a LONGER time...the longer, the better!<br /><br />Tastes do differ -- and I find I, myself, like a deeper, more robust<br />brew.  However, if the water for this instant coffee is boiled LONG<br />enough, I find that a wonderful hint of strength is brought forth<br />amongst the mild taste, giving it a unique and delightful flavour,<br />which I have found, so far, in NO other instant coffee!<br /><br />  COFFEE....INSTANT....COFFEE<br /><br />The jar this coffee comes in is pleasing indeed!  Made of VERY heavy<br />glass,, I found that, (ordering four at a time to save on postage),<br />that the unopened package could easily be used as a doorstop!  The<br />"crown"-like cover is easy to open -- in a seemingly-circular, (but<br />actually fifteen-sided figure), design. Those 15 sides make it VERY<br />easy to open!<br /><br />On the two sides of the golden label, are printed directions for<br />use -- in NINE languages!  I can read the English, (UK) directions,<br />and recognize, (I think), the lettering for the Russian, (MK) -- or<br />is it Greek -- directions, though I cannot read them.  The other<br />directions -- for "AL"; "HR/BiH"; "SRB..(Serbia?) / MNE"; and "SI",<br />are in languages I do not know.  It's fascinating to look at this<br />label, however -- because it confirms my suspicions that Americans<br />are woefully under-educated, as I, (who was educated in District 26<br />in Queens, New York -- reputedly one of the best public school<br />districts in New York City, and in Queens College of the City of<br />New York, (which also has a sterling reputation), could recognize<br />but two of these languages!  I also noted -- with some alarm -- that<br />FRENCH does NOT seem to be one of the nine languages used for these<br />directions!  Maybe it IS there, and I have had too many years pass<br />between college French classes and now....but if it ISN'T there, the<br />manufacturers of this coffee are MISSING a market which will NOT<br />accept ANY merchandise of ANY kind, without FRENCH instructions<br />being given on the packaging: QUEBEC, CANADA!  (This includes EVERY<br />imaginable  product: in the infamous "Matzo-gate" of several years<br />back, the government of Quebec would not even allow Matzo to be<br />imported into Quebec, for Jews celebrating Passover, because there<br />was NO FRENCH LETTERING on the boxes!)  This is all the more aston-<br />ishing to me, as it seems that the JACOBS Coffee Company has now<br />become a subsidiary of the KRAFT FOODS CORPORATION (!) -- a very<br />large food company, which should be aware of the Quebec law!  (Or<br />perhaps they are just too busy producing yummy food to have re-<br />membered this?)  Anyway, I happen to have relatives in Quebec --<br />so I KNOW this Quebec law -- of having FRENCH language directions<br />included on EVERYTHING, is true.  So, if KRAFT, and JACOBS, want<br />to sell this coffee to the Quebec, Canada market, I respectfully<br />request they include FRENCH directions on the packaging!<br /><br />Altogether, this is a delicious instant coffee -- especially if<br />you like MILD instant coffee.  The thick glass and 15-sided top,<br />bespeak quality, and the labeling, in 9 languages, is like a<br />mini-miniscule armchair trip to Europe, for curious Americans!