God, I hate it when this happens.
Some poor soul reached out to Sainsbury's recently, probably wandering around the coffee aisle like a lost puppy, searching for their beloved Taste the Difference Fairtrade Indian Monsoon Malabar Ground Coffee. You know that feeling when your favorite thing just... vanishes? Yeah. That's what happened here, and honestly, I'm feeling secondhand heartbreak for this person.
"Have Sainsbury's stopped selling the Monsoon Malabar coffee?? Tried to find it in various stores but it is not available anywhere," they wrote. The double question marks tell you everything about their desperation.
The Brutal Truth (Spoiler: It's Bad News)
Sainsbury's confirmed what we all feared. The coffee's been discontinued. Just like that. Gone. Finished. I checked Trolley.co.uk myself (because I'm nosy like that) and sure enough - "currently out of stock in every store." Which is corporate speak for "never coming back."
This wasn't just any random coffee either. We're talking about a 227g pack of pure magic - dark chocolate, smoke and spice flavors that came from beans laid on the Malabar coast in southwestern India during monsoon season. The whole process sounded like something out of a coffee lover's fever dream.
People Actually Loved This Stuff
The reviews on Trolley were absolutely glowing. One person wrote: "This is the best coffee that I've had in recent years and decent price." Another said it was "the closest to the coffee I drank in Goa and for me it is perfectly good."
Listen, when someone compares your supermarket coffee to what they had in Goa, you know you've done something right.
Poor coffee lovers everywhere are probably staring at empty shelves right now, wondering what they did to deserve this.
But Wait... There's Other Fish in the Sea (Sort Of)
Before you completely lose hope, Sainsbury's still has other Taste the Difference Fairtrade options. They're not the same - nothing ever is when your favorite gets axed - but they exist.
There's the Peruvian Machu Picchu Ground Coffee with milk chocolate, caramel and almond flavors. Comes from the Sacred Valley, which sounds impressive enough. Then you've got Colombian Coffee Strength 3 from the foothills of the Colombian Andes - smooth, sweet, nutty. The Kenyan option from Mount Kenya's high plateaus brings zesty citrus and blackberry notes.
All priced at £4 for 227g packs. Same price point as the discontinued one, which feels like adding insult to injury somehow.
Why Do Good Things Always Die?
I reached out to Sainsbury's for comment, though I doubt they'll say anything beyond the usual corporate non-answers about "reviewing our range regularly" or whatever.
It's 2025, and we still can't have nice things. One day you're enjoying your perfect morning coffee, the next day it's gone forever and you're stuck trying to find something that comes even close.
RIP Monsoon Malabar. You deserved better than this.
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