By Robert Lazu Kmita, Remnant Columnist, The Remnant - To maintain the appearance of the proletariat’s triumphant ascending path to the “multilaterally developed socialist society,” the communists came up with a clever trick after the 1980s: ‘substitute’ foods. All of these were actually surrogate foods. I’ll give you just one example: coffee. It gradually disappeared from the stores in the ‘80s. Instead, a substitute coffee called, ironically, ‘nechezol’ emerged... Here’s how ‘nechezol’ is described: “Nechezol contained only one-fifth coffee, the balance typically consisting of barley, oats, chickpeas and chestnuts. Its pejorative nickname is derived from the verb ‘a necheza’ (to neigh) ....